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δράω (A), Aeol. 3pl.
A.“δραῖσι” Alc.Supp.27.11, subj. δρῶ, δρᾷς, δρᾷ, opt. δρῴην, Ep. “δρώοιμι” Od.15.317; παρα-δρώωσι ib.324: impf. ἔδρων: fut. δράσω: aor. 1 ἔδρα_σα, Ion. “ἔδρησα” Thgn.954: pf. δέδρα_κα:—Pass., aor. 1 ἐδράσθην, δρασθείς, Th.3.38, 6.53: pf. δέδρα_μαι （δεδρασμένων is f. l. in Id.3.54):—do, accomplish, esp. do some great thing, good or bad (acc. to some δ. was the equiv. Dor. Verb for Att. πράττειν, Arist.Po.1448b1), “αἶψά κεν εὖ δρώοιμι μετὰ σφίσιν ἅσσ᾽ ἐθέλοιεν” Od.15.317 (where the Sch. interprets it διακονοίην, δουλεύοιμι I would serve . . , cf. δρήστης）“; ἄνδρες δραῖσιν ἀτάσθαλοι” Alc. l. c.; opp. πάσχω, freq. in Trag., “εὖ δρῶσαν, εὖ πάσχουσαν” A.Eu. 868; “ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων” Id.Ag.1527; “κακῶς δράσαντες οὐκ ἐλάσσονα πάσχουσι” Id.Pers.813; of one in extreme perplexity, “τί πάθω; τί δὲ δρῶ;” Id.Th.1062, cf.Ch.899; “δρῶν ἀντιπάσχω χρηστά” S.Ph.584; prov., "“δράσαντι παθεῖν" τριγέρων μῦθος τάδε φωνεῖ” A.Ch.313; “δράσαντι γάρ τοι καὶ παθεῖν ὀφείλεται” Id.Fr.456, cf. S.OT1272; τά γ᾽ ἔργα μου πεπονθότα . . μᾶλλον ἢ δεδρακότα acts of suffering rather than of doing, Id.OC267; ὁ δρῶν the doer, whoever he be, A.Ag.1359, etc.; ὁ δράσας the culprit, Pl.Lg.879a, cf. S.Tr.1108; “ὁ δεδρακώς” Id.OT246, D.23.40; used to avoid repetition of a verb, Th.2.49, al.: c. dupl. acc., “οἷ᾽ ἔργ᾽ ὁ παῖς μ᾽ ἔδρασεν” S.Ph.940, cf. OC854, etc.: with Adv., εὖ, κακῶς δρᾶν τινά, do one a good or ill turn, Thgn.108, S.Aj.1154; “δρᾶν τι εἴς τινα” Id.OC976; “τί τινι” Id.OT1402; πάντα δρᾶν try every way, cj. in E.Hipp.284; παντὸς εἶχε δρῶντος ἡδονήν was satisfied with the doing, S.OC1604; τὰ δρώμενα what is doing or being done, ib.1644, cf. D.C.37.57: sg., “τὸ δρώμενον” S.El.40, Th.5.102; τί δράσω; to express helplessness or despair, S.Aj.920, etc.; for οἶσθ᾽ οὖν ὃ δρᾶσον; v. Εἴδω fin.
2. of things, “τουτὶ τί δρᾷ τὸ ποτήριον;” Ar.Eq.237; “ὅπερ ἡ λίθος δρᾷ τὸν σίδηρον” Luc.Im.1: so, generally, to be active, “εἰς ἄλληλα πάσχειν καὶ δ.” Chrysipp.Stoic.2.135, cf. Prisc.Lyd.4.10.
II. offer sacrifice or perform mystical rites, “δ. τὰ ἱερά” IG12.4, cf. 188, Ath.14.660a, Paus.1.43.2, Iamb.Myst. 1.21, etc.:—Pass., “τὰ δρώμενα” Gal.UP7.14, Sopat. in Rh.8.1 W., etc.; “τὰ δημοσίᾳ δρώμενα” Plu.Num.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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