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ἔρρω (A), Locr. ϝέρρω (v. infr.), fut.
A.“ἐρρήσω” h.Merc.259, Ar. (v. infr.): aor. 1 “ἤρρησα” Id.Ra.1192 : pf. ἤρρηκα （εἰσ-) Id.Th.1075:— go slowly : ἔρρων limping, of Hephaestus, Il.18.421 ; ἥ μ᾽ οἴῳ ἔρροντι συνήντετο met me wandering alone, Od.4.367.
II. go or come to one's own harm, “ἐνθάδε ἔρρων” Il.8.239,9.364 ; ὑπὸ γαίῃ ἐρρήσεις h.Merc. l.c.; “ἄτιμος ἔρρειν” A.Eu.884 ; ὡς Πόλυβον ἤρρησεν he went with a murrain to Polybus, Ar.Ra.1192, cf.Lys.336 (lyr.).
2. mostly in imper., “ἔρρε” away ! begone ! Il.8.164, Thgn.601 ; “ἔρρ᾽ οὕτως” Il.22.498 : pl., “ἔρρετε” 24.239, A.R.3.562 : 3sg., “ἐρρέτω” away with him, let him go to ruin, Il.20.349, Od.5.139 ; “ἀσπὶς ἐκείνη ἐρρέτω” Archil.6.4 ; in a legal formula, “αὐτὸς μὲν ϝερρέτω” Berl.Sitzb.1927.8 (Locr., v B. C.), cf.Schwyzer 415 (Elis, v B. C.); ϝάρρην ib.409; ἐρρέτω Ἴλιον perish Troy ! S.Ph.1200 (anap.) : with a Prep., “ἔρρ᾽ ἐκ νήσου θᾶσσον” Od.10.72 ; “ἔρρ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἐμεῖο” Theoc.20.2 ; “ἔρρ᾽ ἐκ προσώπου” Herod. 8.59 ; in Att. strengthd., “ἔρρ᾽ ἐς κόρακας” go hang! Ar.Pl.604 (anap.), Pherecr.70.5, etc.; “ἐς κόρακας ἔρρειν φασὶν ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς” Alex.94.5 ; “ἔρρε εἰς ὄλεθρόν τε καὶ Ἄβυδον” Lys.Fr.5a : opt. “ἔρροις” AP5.2 (Antip. Thess.): part., “ἔρρων νυν αὐτὸς χἡ ξυνοικήσασά σοι.. γηράσκετ᾽” E.Alc. 734 : fut., οὐκ ἐρρήσετε; οὐκ ἐς κόρακας ἐρρήσετε; Ar.Lys.1240, Pax 500 ; “εἰ μὴ 'ρρήσεθ᾽” Id.V.1329 (lyr.).
3. of persons and things, to be clean gone, perish, disappear, “ἔρρων ἐκ ναός” A.Pers.964 (lyr.); ἔρρει πανώλης ib.732 (troch.); “ἄφαντος ἔρρει” S.OT560, cf.Pl.Lg.677c; “ἔρρει ταῦτα ἐκ τῆς αὑτῶν χώρας” Id.Phlb.24d ; “ἔρρειν ἐκ τῆς τοῦ εἶναι ἕδρας” Plot.3.7.4 ; ἔρρει τὰ κᾶλα the ships are lost, Hippocr. ap. X.HG1.1.23 (prob.) ; “ἔρρει πᾶσ᾽ Ἀφροδίτα” A.Ag.419 (lyr.) ; ἔρρει τὰ θεῖα the honour due to the gods is gone, S.OT910 (lyr.) ; “ἔρρει δέμας φλογιστόν” Id.El.57 ; “ἔρρεις μάτην” E.Hel.1220 ; “θανόντας ἔρρειν” Id.Supp. 1113 ; ἐξ οἵων καλῶν ἔρρεις from what fortunes hast thou fallen, Id.IT379 ; “ἔρρει τὰ ἐμὰ πράγματα” X.Smp.1.15, cf. Cyr.6.1.3.
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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