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εἶμι (
A.ibo), 2sg. “εἶ” S. Tr.83, Ar.Av.990, Ep. and Ion. “εἶς” Hes.Op. 208, “εἶσθα” Il. 10.450, Od.19.69; 3sg. εἶσι; pl. ἴμεν, ἴτε, ἴα_σι: imper. ἴθι (also εἶ in the compd. “ἔξει” Ar.Nu.633 acc. to Sch., but prob. indic.), 3pl. “ἴτωσαν” E.IT1480, Pl.Lg.765a, also “ἴτων” A.Eu.32, “ἰόντων” Th.4.118, etc.: subj. ἴω （“εἴω” Sophr.48); Ep. 2sg. “ἴῃσθα” Il.10.67; Ep. 3sg. “ἴῃσι” 9.701; Ep. pl. ἴομεν (for -ωμεν) 2.440: opt. ἴοιμι, οις, οι, 14.21, etc.; “ἰοίην” Sapph.159, IG4.760 (Troezen), X.Smp.4.16, (διεξ-) Isoc.5.98; Ep. “ἰείη” Il.19.209, cf. “περι-ιεῖεν” IG22.1126.18 (Amphict. Delph.), “εἴη” Il.24.139, Od.14.496, “εἴηι” GDI4986.7 (Crete): inf. ἰέναι, Ep. ἴμεναι （ι in Il.20.365) or ἴμεν, also “ἰέμεν” Archyt. ap. Stob.3.1.106 (dub. l.), ἴναι [ι^] Orac. ap. Str.9.2.23, (ἐξ-) Machoap.Ath.13.580c, cf. EM467.18 (προσ-εῖναι dub. in Hes. Op.353): part. ἰών, ἰοῦσα, ἰόν: impf. ᾔειν, ᾔεις （“δι-ῄεισθα” Pl.Ti.26c, “ἐπεξ-ῄεισθα” Euthphr.4b), ᾔει or -ειν Id.Ti. 38c, Criti.117e; Ep. and Ion. ἤϊα, 3sg. ἤϊε （-εν), contr. “ᾖε” Od.18.257; dual “ᾔτην” Pl.Euthd.294d; 1 and 2pl., ᾖμεν, ᾖτε; 3pl., Ep. and Ion. ἤϊσαν, Ep. also ἴσαν, Att. ᾖσαν （μετ-) Ar.Eq.605, cf. Fr.161, (ἐπ-) Od.19.445, later ᾔεσαν （εἰσ-) Arist.Ath.32.1, etc.; also 3sg. “ἴε” Il.2.872, al.; Ep. 1pl. “ᾔομεν” Od.10.251, al., 3dual “ἴτην” Il.1.347; 3pl. “ἤϊον” Od.23.370:—Med. pres. and impf. ἴεμαι, ἰέμην are mere mistakes for ἵεμαι, ἱέμην (from ἵημι), cf. S.OT1242, E.Supp.698:—for fut. εἴσομαι and aor. Med. εἰσάμην, in 3sg. εἴσατο, ἐείσατο, 3dual ἐεισάσθην, v. εἴσομαι 11.—The ind. εἶμι usu. has pres. sense in Hom. (fut., Il.1.426, 18.280), but in Ion. Prose and Att. it serves as fut. to ἔρχομαι (q. v.), I shall go, shall come: the pres. sense is sts. found in Poetry, prov. αὐτόματοι δ᾽ ἀγαθοὶ ἀγαθῶν ἐπὶ δαῖτας ἴασι (cf. Pl.Smp.174b), cf. Theoc.25.90, also in compds. (προς-) A.Eu.242, (ἐπ-) Th.4.61, (συν-) Str.3.2.2. [ι^- in all tenses, exc. in Ep. Subj. ἴομεν for ἴωμεν at the beginning of a verse]:—come or go, the special senses being given by the context, οἴκαδ᾽ ἴμεν go home, Il.17.155; “τάχ᾽ εἶσθα θύραζε” Od.19.69, etc.; come, “οὐδέ μιν οἴω νῦν ἰέναι” Il.17.710, etc.; go, depart, Od.2.367; “ὑπὸ τεῖχος ἰόντας” Il.12.264.
II. c.acc.,
1. c. acc. loci, go to or into, Od.1.176, 18.194, S.OT637.
2. c. acc. cogn., ὁδὸν ἰέναι go a road, Od.10.103; so τὴν ὀρεινήν (sc. ὁδόν) X.Cyr. 2.4.22: metaph., “ἄδικον ὁδὸν ἰέναι” Th.3.64.
3. go through or over, τὸ μέσον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, of the sun, Hdt.2.25, cf. 26: in Hom., freq. c. gen., ἰὼν πεδίοιο going across the plain, Il.5.597.
III. c. inf. aor., “ἀλλά τις εἴη εἰπεῖν Ἀτρεΐδῃ” Od.14.496.—On the Homeric βῆ δ᾽ ἴμεν, etc., v. βαίνω.
2. c. part. fut., Ἑλένην καλέουσ᾽ ἴε went to call her, Il.3.383, cf. 14.200, Od.15.213; ἤϊα λέξων I was going to tell, Hdt.4.82; “ἴτω θύσων” Pl.Lg.909d; “εἴ τις ἱστορίαν γράψων ἴῃ” Luc. Hist.Conscr.39.
IV. also of other motions besides walking or running, as of going in a ship, esp. “ἐπὶ νηὸς ἰέναι” Od.2.332, etc.; of the flight of bees, Il.2.87.
2. of the motion of things, [πέλεκυς] εἶσιν διὰ δουρός the axe goes through the beam, 3.61; of clouds or vapour, 4.278; of the stars, 22.317; of time, ἔτος εἶσι the year will pass, Od. 2.89; φάτις εἶσι the report goes, 23.362; “χρόνος . . ἰὼν πόρσω” Pi.O.10 (11).55; ἴτω κλαγγά, βοά, S.Tr.208 (lyr.), Ar.Av.857 (lyr.); “ἡ μοῖρ᾽ ὅποιπερ εἶσ᾽ ἴτω” S.OT1458, cf.Pl.Ap.19a.
V. metaph. usages, ἰέναι ἐς λόγους τινί to enter on a conference with . . , Th.3.80, etc.; ἰέναι ἐς τοὺς πολέμους, ἐς τὴν ξυμμαχίαν, Id.1.78, 5.30; ἰέναι ἐς χεῖρας to come to blows, Id.2.3, 81; ἰέναι ἐς τὰ παραγγελλόμενα to obey orders, Id.1.121; “διὰ δίκης ἰὼν πατρί” S.Ant.742; ἰέναι διὰ μάχης, διὰ φιλίας, etc., v. διά A.IV.b.
VI. imper. ἴθι (with or without δή) come now! mostly folld. by 2sg. imper., “ἴ. ἐξήγεο” Hdt.3.72; ἴθ᾽ ἐγκόνει, ἴθ᾽ ἐκκάλυψον, S.Aj.988, 1003; “ἴ. πέραινε” Ar.Ra.1170; in full, ἴ. καὶ πειρῶ go and try, Hdt.8.57: with 1pl., “ἴ. οὖν ἐπισκεψώμεθα” X.Mem.1.6.4, cf. Pl. Prt.332d; “ἴτε δὴ ἀκούσωμεν” Id.Lg.797d: 2dual, “ἴθι δὴ παρίστασθον” Ar.Ra.1378: also 2pl., “ἴτε νεύσατε” S.OC248, cf. OT1413.
2. ἴτω let it pass, well then, Id.Ph.120, E.Med.798.
VII. part. added to Verbs, φρονείτω μεῖζον ἢ κατ᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ἰών let him go and think . . , S.Ant.768, cf. OC1393, Aj.304; “βακχεύσεις ἰών” E.Ba.343.—Cf. ἴσκω.
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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