A.set one's heart upon a thing, long for, covet, desire, c. gen. rei, Hdt.2.66, A.Ag.216, etc.: also c. gen. pers., Lys.3.5, X.An.4.1.14 (later c. acc. pers., [Men.] ap.Clem.Al.Strom.5.119, Tab.Defix. Aud.271.45 (Hadrumetum, iii A.D.)); of political attachments, τῶν “ἡμετέρων πολεμίων” And.4.28; “ὀλιγαρχίας” Lys.20.3: c. inf., desire to do, “πλῶσαι” Hdt.1.24; ἀπικνέεσθαι ib.116; “περισσὰ δρᾶν” S.Tr.617, etc.: abs., desire, covet, Th.6.92; “ὁ ἀεὶ-ῶν” Pl.Prt.313d, etc.; τὸ ἐπιθυμοῦν τοῦ πλοῦ, = ἐπιθυμία, eagerness for it, Th.6.24:—Pass., to be desired, τὰ “ἐπιθυμούμενα” Pl.Phlb.35d.
ἐπιθυ_μ-έω ,
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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