A.“μάσσομαι” Il.9.394 (Aristarch., recte): aor. I, V. ἐπιμαίομαι:—seek after, seek for, γυναῖκα Il.l.c.; κευθμῶνας ἀνὰ σπέος searching for hiding-places in the cave, Od.13.367, cf. 14.356, Hes.Op.532, h.Cer.44, Pi.O.1.46, Trag.Adesp.509 (lyr.); pursue, “ὀ μαιόμενος τὸ μέγα κρέτος” Alc.25.1; “δυνατὰ μαιόμενος” Pi.P.11.51, cf. N.3.5; μ. ὄλεθρόν τινι seek one's destruction, Nic.Th.197: c. gen., A.R.4.1275: c. inf., seek to do, Pi.O.8.5, A. Ch.786 (lyr., dub.), S.Aj.287; desire, ἐγὼ δέ σ᾽ ἐμαιόμαν （σε μὰ ὤμαν cod.) Sapph.Supp.18.1; καὶ ποθήω καὶ μάομαι Ead.23; “Κρητῶν μαιομίνων ὃς ἀναίνετο αὐταρχεῖν” Pi.Pae.4.36.—Never used in Prose; for it appears in Pl.Cra.421a merely for an etym. purpose. (Prob. μα^（ς)-yo-, cf. μασ-τήρ, μασ-τρός, μασ-τεύω; but μα^- is found in μα^τεύω, μα^-τήρ; perh. cogn. with μῶμαι.）
μαίομαι , Aeol. μαίομαι and μάομαι [α^] (v. infr.): fut.
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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