A.“λεῦσσον” Od.8.200; Ion. “λεύσσεσκον” Emp.129.5: fut. λεύσω dub. in AP15.7, Man.6.93: aor. opt. λεύσσειε ib.487, λεύσσειεν ib. 620.—Poet. Verb, also used in Arc., IG5(2).16 (Tegea, iii B.C.), cf. “Κλειτορίων . . λεύσει: ὁρᾷ” AB1096:—look or gaze upon, see, c. acc., Il. 1.120, al., Pi.P.4.145: c. Part., “πυρπολέοντας ἐλεύσσομεν” Od.10.30; of the gods, “ὁ εἰσαιὲν ὁρῶν κύκλος λεύσσει νιν Διός” S.OC705 (lyr.); “λεύσσετε . . οἷα πάσχω” Id.Ant.940 (anap.); used by Com. in mock Trag. phrases, Ar.Th.1052, Ra.992 (both lyr.).
2. abs., look, gaze, “λεύσσων ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον” Il.5.771; “Κυκλώπων ἐς γαῖαν ἐλεύσσομεν” Od.9.166; “ἐς αὐτόν” 8.171, cf. S.OT1254; “στατὸν εἰς ὕδωρ” Id.Ph.716 (lyr.); “ἐς χέρας” E.Ph.596 (troch.); “πρόσσω καὶ ὀπίσσω λ.” Il. 3.110; ὁ μὴ λεύσσων, like ὁ μὴ βλέπων, he that lives no more, S.Tr.828 (lyr.); so c. acc., “εἰ λεύσσει φάος” E.Ph.1084, cf. Tr.269 (lyr.).