A.“ἐσθέμεναι” Od.7.220 : impf. “ἦσθον” 6.249, MatroConv. 115:—poet. form of ἐσθίω, eat, “ἔσθειν καὶ πίνειν” Od.5.197, cf. 7.220 ; ἐσθέμεναι κειμήλιά τε πρόβασίν τε, i.e. eat up chattel and cattle, i.e. all one has, 2.75 ; of worms or animals, feed on, devour, Il.24.415, Od.13.409 : also in Trag., Com., and later Poets, A.Ag.1597, Archipp. 20, Philippid.9.5, Python 1.13, Call.Iamb.1.270, Matro l.c. : sts. in later Prose, LXXLe.17.10, 19.26, Plu.2.101d codd. ; in Cos, Arch.f.Religionswiss.10.402 (iii B. C.):—Pass., LXXLe.17.13.
ἔσθω , Ep. inf.
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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