A.“φορέῃσι” Od.5.328, 9.10; Ep. inf. φορῆναι (as if from Φόρημι) Il.2.107, 7.149, Od.17.224; “φορήμεναι” Il.15.310: impf. ἐφόρεο<*>ν Od.22.456, 3sg. “ἐφόρει” Il.4.137; Ion. “φορέεσκον” 2.770, 13.372: fut. “φορήσω” Scol.9 (cf. Ar.Lys.632), X.Vect.4.32; later “φορέσω” LXX Pr.16.23: aor. “ἐφόρησα” IG42(1).121.95 (Epid., iv B. C.), Call.Dian. 213, Ep. “φόρησα” Il.19.11, (δια-, ἐκ-) Is.6.43,42; later “ἐφόρεσα” LXX Si.11.5, f.l. in Is.4.7, Aristid.Or.48(24).80, Sammelb.7247.33 (iii/iv A. D.):—Med., fut. “φορήσομαι” Hsch.; in pass. sense, Plu.2.398d: aor. ἐφορησάμην （ἐξ-) Is.6.39:—Pass., Aeol. pres. “φορήμεθα” Alc.18.4: aor. ἐφορήθην （ἐν-) Plu.2.703b: pf. “πεφόρημαι” Pl.Ti.52a; plpf. “πεφόρητο” Orph.A.816:—Frequentat. of φέρω, implying repeated or habitual action, “ἵπποι οἳ φορέεσκον ἀμύμονα Πηλεΐωνα” Il.2.770, cf. 10.323; “τά τε νῆες φορέουσι” Od.2.390; of a slave, “ὕδωρ ἐφόρει” 10.358, cf. Il.6.457; “μέθυ οἰνοχόος φ.” Od.9.10; “θαλλὸν ἐρίφοισι φ.” 17.224; of the wind, bear to and fro, bear along, “ἄνεμος ἄχνας φορέει” Il.5.499, cf. 21.337, Od.5.328; “σώματα . . κύμαθ᾽ ἁλὸς . . φορέουσι” 12.68; “τόφρα δέ μ᾽ αἰεὶ κῦμα φ.” 6.171; so ἀγγελίας ἐφόρεε conveyed messages habitually, served as a messenger. Hdt.3.34 (nisi leg. ἐσεφόρεε）; φ. θρεπτήρια, of Oedipus carrying about food in a wallet, like a beggar, S.OC1262; “λόγχαν ἔτη ἐφόρησε ἓξ ἐν τᾷ γνάθῳ” IG42(1).121.95 (Epid . . iv B. C.): abs., ἐγ γαστρὶ ἐφόρει τρία ἔτη was pregnant, ib. 14:—Pass., v. infr.11.
2. most commonly of clothes, armour, and the like , bear constantly, wear, [“σκῆπτρον] ἐν παλάμῃς φ. δικασπόλοι” Il. 1.238; “μίτρης ἣν ἐφόρει” 4.137; “θώρηξ χάλκεος, ὃν φορέεσκε” 13.372, cf. Od.15.127, Hdt.1.71, etc.; “φ. ἐσθήματα” S.El.269; “στολάς” Id.OC 1357; “ζεῦγος ἐμβάδων” Ar.Eq.872; “ἱμάτιον” Id.Pl.991, Pl.Tht.197b; “δακτύλιον” Ar.Pl.883.
3. of features, qualities, etc., of mind or body, possess, hold, bear, ἀγλαΐας φ. to be pompous or splendid, Od.17.245; “φ. ὄνομα” S.Fr.658; “ἦθος” Id.Ant.705; “δόξαν” Arch.Pap. 1.220 (ii B. C.); “ἕνα γομφίον μόνον φ.” Ar.Pl.1059; “γλῶτταν” Pl.Com. 51; ἀπόνοιαν φορεῖς you are mad, PGrenf.1.53.15 (iv A. D.); with gen. or adj. added, “σκέλεα φ. γεράνου” Hdt.2.76; “ἰσχυρὰς φ. τὰς κεφαλάς” Id.3.12, cf. 101; “ποδώκη τὸν τρόπον φ.” Trag.Adesp.519; “γένειον διηλιφὲς φ.” S.Fr.564; “ὑπόπτερον δέμας φ.” E.Hel.619; “λῆμα θούριον φ.” Ar.Eq.757; “ῥύγχος φ. ὕειον” Anaxil.11; “καλάμινα σκέλη φ.” Pl. Com.184; “ὥσπερ σέλινον οὖλα τὰ σκέλη φ.” Com.Adesp.208; “τὸ στόμ᾽ ὡς κομψὸν φ.” Alex.98.21 (troch.).
II. Pass., to be borne along, “ἐν ῥοθίοις” A.Th. 362 (lyr.); “φορούμενος πρὸς οὖδας” S.El.752; κόνις δ᾽ ἄνω φορεῖθ᾽ ib. 715; “ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω φ.” E.Supp.689; “πολλοῖς διαύλοις κυμάτων φ.” Id.Hec.29, cf. Plu.2.398d; πεφορημένον ἀεί always in motion, Pl.Ti. 52a: hence, to be storm-tossed, “νᾶϊ φορήμεθα σὺν μελαίνᾳ” Alc.18.4, cf. Ar.Pax144; “ποσσὶ φ.” Theoc.1.83, cf. Bion 1.23: metaph., “δόξαις φορεῖται τοπαζόμενα” Pl.Epin.976a.
2. to be carried away, Th.2.76; simply, to be shifted, Dam.Pr.293.
III. Med., fetch for oneself, fetch regularly, E.El.309; λευκανίηνδε φορεύμενος putting food into one's mouth, A.R.2.192.
