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ἰάομαι , imper.ἰῶ (v. infr.), Ion. inf.
A.“ἰᾶσθαι” Hp.Loc.Hom.24 (ἰῆσθαι v.l. in Id.Morb.Sacr.13), Cypr. ἰjᾶσθαι Inscr.Cypr.135.3H.: fut. “ἰάσομαι” E.HF1107, Aeschin.3.69; Ion. and Ep. “ἰήσομαι” Od.9.525, Archil. 13, (ἐξ-) Hp.Morb.1.6: aor. “ἰασάμην” E.Fr.1072, Pl.Phd.89a; Ion. “ἰησάμην” Il.5.899, Hp.Int.2:—Pass.(v. infr.). [ι_- in Hom., etc.; also ι^, E.Hipp.597]:—heal, cure, in pres. and impf., attempt to cure, treat, of persons or bodies, etc., τινα Il.12.2, Hdt.3.134, etc.; “τοὺς κάμνοντας” Pl.Plt.299a, cf. 293b; “ὀφθαλμόν” Od.9.525; “τὸ σῶμα” S.Tr.1210: abs., Od.9.520, Il.5.899: prov., “ὁ τρώσας ἰάσεται” Mantiss.Prov.2.28.
2. cure. treat, of diseases, “νόσους” Pi.P.3.46, cf. E.Hipp.597, Pl.Prt.340e, Chrm.156b, etc.; “σμύρνῃσι ἰ. τὰ ἕλκεα” Hdt.7.181: metaph., remedy, δύσγνοιαν, ἀδικίαν ἰᾶσθαι, E.HF1107, Or.650; “ἀτυχίας” Isoc.6.101; “δωροδόκημα” Aeschin.3.69; “ἀσάφειαν” Arr.Tact.1.3: prov., μὴ τῷ κακῷ τὸ κακὸν ἰῶ, i.e. do not make bad worse, Hdt.3.53, cf. Th.5.65; “μὴ κακοῖς ἰῶ κακά” A.Fr.349; “κακοῖς ὅταν θέλωσιν ἰᾶσθαι κακά” S.Fr.77: abs., “οὔτε τι γὰρ κλαίων ἰήσομαι” Archil.13.
3. cure the effects of, counteract, “ἄκρατος ἰ. τὸ κώνειον” Plu.2.653a.
4. repair, “τὸ βλαβέν” Pl.Lg.933e; “τὴν φύσιν τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην” Id.Smp.191d; “θυσιαστήριον” LXX 3 Ki.18.32; “δίκελλαν” Lib.Decl.27.3.
II. Act. only aor.1 “ἰάσαμεν” Gal.10.453; part. ἰάσαντες Sch.E.Hec.1236: aor. ἰάθην is always Pass., be healed, recover, And.2.9, AP6.330（Aeschin.), IG4.951.113(Epid.), etc.; “ἀπὸ τῶν νόσων” Ev.Luc.6.17; Ion. “ἰήθην” Hp.Mul.1.3, Int.1: fut. “ἰαθήσομαι” Luc.Asin.14, Gp.12.25.3, Gal.10.377; “ἰάσομαι” Aristid.2.317 J.: pf. “ἴα_μαι” Ev.Marc.5.29.
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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