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ἰθύω [ι_], aor. ἴθυ_σα (v. infr.),
A.go straight, press right on, rare in pres., ὁ δέ, κρειῶν ἐρατίζων, ἰθύει [υ^] Il.11.552; ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθ᾽ ἴθυσε μάχη πεδίοιο the tide of war set straight over the plain . . , 6.2; “ἰθύει τάχιστα δελφίς” Pi.Fr.234; “ἰθύει τὸ ἔμβρυον πρὸς τὸ ἧπαρ” Hp.Mul.1.32, cf. 2.145 vulg.: c. gen. objecti, ὣς Ἕκτωρ ἴθυσε νεός dashed straight atit, Il. 15.693; “ἴθυσαν δ᾽ ἐπὶ τεῖχος” 12.443; ἴθυσαν πρός . . Hdt.4.122.
II. c. inf., to be eager, strive to do, “τῶν ὁπότ᾽ ἰθύσειε . . ἐπὶ χερσὶ μάσασθαι” Od.11.591; “ἴθυσέν ῥ᾽ ὀλολύξαι” 22.408; ὅκῃ ἰθύς ειε στρατεύεσθαι whichever way he purposed to march, Hdt.1.204, cf. 3.39; “ἰθύοντα στρατεύεσθαι” Id.7.8.β́.
2. c. acc., desire eagerly, “τι μετὰ φρεσίν” A.R.2.950.
3. abs., τί μακρὰν γλῶσσαν ἰθύσας ἐλαύνω ἐκτὸς ὁδοῦ; why in my zeal do I drive, etc., B.9.51. (Signf. 1 never in Od., signf. 11 never in Il.）
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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    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 9.51
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.204
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.122
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.39
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.8
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.552
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.443
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.693
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.2
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.591
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.408
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.950
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