A.“-ι^ῶ” LXX Ps.43(44).7, Ep.Rom.15.12; “ἐλπίσω” Gal.10.656 (ἐλπίσω in A.Ch.187 is aor. subj.): aor. “ἤλπισα” Hdt.8.24, S.Ph.1175 (lyr.), etc. (ἤλπιζα (sic) IG3.1350): pf. “ἤλπικα” Ev.Jo.5.45, (προ-) Posidipp.27.8: plpf. “ἠλπίκειν” Plu.Alc.17, Luc.Herm.71, Hdn.8.5.1:—Med., App.Pun.115 (s.v.l.), Supp.Epigr.2.461 (Histria, i B.C.):—Pass., aor. “ἠλπίσθην” S.OC1105, APl.4.222 (Parmen.): pf. “ἤλπισμαι” D.H.5.40:—Att. form of ἔλπομαι, used also by Hdt., hope for, or rather (in earlier writers) look for, expect:—Constr.: c. acc., A.Th.589, Ch.539, etc., “τι παρά τινος” X.Mem.4.3.17, D.19.102: freq. with a dependent clause in inf., hope to do, or hope or expect that . .; c. fut. inf., “ἐ. μιν ἀποθανέεσθαι” Hdt.3.143, cf. Antipho 2.3.6, Th.4.71, Lys.16.2; ἐ. τὴν Εὐρώπην δουλώσεσθαι (v.l. -ασθαι) Id.2.21: c. aor. inf., “ἐ. ποτὲ δεῖξαι” S.Ph.629; “ἤλπιζον ἑλεῖν” X.Ages.7.6: also with “ἄν, οὐδαμὰ ἐλπίζων ἂν ἡμίονον τεκέειν” Hdt.3.151, Th.2.53; the inf. may be omitted, ἔκλυον ἃν . . οὐδ᾽ ἂν ἤλπισ᾽ αὐδάν (sc. κλύειν) S. El.1281; also ἐ. ὅπως . ., with fut., E.Heracl.1051, S.El.963:—Pass., “τὸ μηδαμὰ ἐλπισθὲν ἥξειν” Id.OC1105; “ὁ ἐλπισθεὶς αὐτοκράτωρ” POxy. 1021.6 (i A.D.).
2. of evils, look for, fear, in same constr., “δύστανον ἐ. αἶσαν” S.Tr.111 (lyr.); “ἔξοδον ὀλεθρίαν Αἴαντος ἐλπίζει φέρειν” Id.Aj.799, cf. Lys.12.70; “τουτί . . τὸ κακὸν οὐδέποτ᾽ ἤλπισα” Ar.Av.956; “ἐ. πάγχυ ἀπολέεσθαι” Hdt.8.12; “θῆράς σφε τὸν δύστηνον ἐλπίζει κτανεῖν” E.Ion348: with μή folld. by aor. subj., “οὐδαμὰ ἐλπίσας μή κοτε ἐλάσῃ” Hdt.1.77; “οὐκ ἂν ἤλπισε μή κοτέ τις ἀναβαίη” Id.8.53.
3. c. pres. inf., deem, suppose that . ., Emp.11.2; “ἐλπίζων εἶναι . . ὀλβιώτατος” Hdt. 1.30; ἐλπίζων σιτοδείην τε εἶναι ἰσχυρὴν . . καὶ τὸν λεὼν τετρῦσθαι ib. 22; οἰκότα ἐλπίζων ib.27, cf. A.Th.76, Ch.187; βοῦν ἢ λέοντ᾽ ἤλπιζες ἐντείνειν βρόχοις; E.Andr.720; “ἐλπίζει δυνατὸς εἶναι ἄρχειν” Pl.R. 573c; “ὅστις ἐλπίζει θεοὺς . . χαίρειν ἀπαρχαῖς” Trag.Adesp.118.2: sts. of future events, τίς ἂν ἤλπισεν ἁμαρτήσεσθαί τινα τῶν πολιτῶν τοιαύτην ἁμαρτίαν; Lys.31.27; “οὐδὲν . . ποιήσειν ἐλπίζων” D.4.7.
4. c. dat., hope in . ., “τῇ τύχῃ” Th.3.97; “ὀνόματι” Ev.Matt.12.21: also with Preps., “ἔν τισι” LXX 4 Ki.18.5; πρός τι ib.Jd.20.36; “ἐ. εἴς τινα” Ev.Jo.5.45, al.; “ἐπί τινι” Ep.Rom.15.12, al.; “ἐπί τινα” 1 Ep.Pet.3.5.