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μέτειμι (εἶμο
A.ibo), Att. fut. of μετέρχομαι (q. v.); Dor. inf. “μετίμεν” Foed.Delph.Pell.2 A 25: impf. μετῄειν: Ep. aor. part. (but v. εἴσομαι 11) μετεισάμενος (v. infr.):—go between or among, “μετεισάμενος κρατερὰς ὄτρυνε φάλαγγας” Il.13.90; “μετεισάμενος Τρώων ἐκέδασσε φάλαγγας” 17.285.
II. go after or behind, follow, abs., “ἴθ᾽, ἐγὼ δὲ μέτειμι” 6.341; “Ἄρης πόλεμόνδε μέτεισι” 13.298; “τοῦ μὲν ὑφηγουμένου, τῶν δὲ μετιόντων” X.HG4.5.8, etc.
2. c. acc., follow, “ταὐτὸν ἴχνος” Pl.Phdr. 276d.
b. go to seek or fetch, go in quest of, “μετήϊσαν ἄξοντες” Hdt.3.28; τὸν παῖδα εὗρον οἱ μετιόντες ib. 15; ἐν ᾧ δὲ τούτους μετήϊσαν ib.19; “εἰ γάρ μ᾽ ἀπώσῃ, . . μέτει πάλιν” S.El.430; “μετῇσαν στρώματα” Ar. Eq.605, cf. Ach. 728; μ. τινὰ . . ἐκ . . Id.Pax 274; “τὰ ἐπιτήδεια ἐκ Σηστοῦ μετιόντας” X.HG2.1.25: metaph., search after, pursue, “τέχνην” Pl.Phdr.263b, Arist.Sens.436a21; “ἑκάστας [τὰς ἀρχὰς] ᾗ πεφύκασιν” Id.EN1098b4; “μ. περί τινος” Id.Rh.Al.1432b3, al.; “περί τι” Id.Metaph. 1044b4; “μ. τὸν λόγον” Pl.Men.74d, Sph.252b: abs., pursue a question, “οἱ οὕτω μετιόντες” Arist.APo.91b24, cf. Pl.Smp.210a, etc.
c. Trag., pursue with vengeance, “εἰ μὴ μέτειμι τοῦ πατρὸς [φόνου] τοὺς αἰτίους” A. Ch.273, cf.Ag.1666 (troch.), S.El.478 (lyr.); also in Th., “τιμωρίαις τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας μ.” 4.62; μ. δίκας τινά （δίκας acc. cogn.) execute judgement upon one, A.Eu.231; “τὸν διδάσκαλον δίκην μέτειμι” E.Ba.346; ἄποινα μέτεισι Διόνυσός δε ib.517.
d. pursue, go about, “δόλῳ μέτειμι . . φόνον” Id.Med.391.
e. canvass for an office, μ. ὑπατείαν, Lat. ambire consulatum, Plu.Publ.11; “ἀρχήν” Id.Cic.1.
f. μ. θυσίῃσι [τοὺς ἀνέμους] approach them with sacrifices, Hdt.7.178: c. acc. et inf., ἕνα ἕκαστον μετῄεσαν μὴ ἐπιτρέπειν besought each one not . . , Th.8.73; also “ἕκαστον μετιόντες ὅπως ἀποστήσωσιν” Id.3.70 (unless ἀ. goes with ἔπρασσον).
III. pass by, A.R.2.688.
2. pass over, “πρός τινα” Hdn.5.4.6.
3. recur, return, “ἐκεῖσε ὅθεν ἀπέσχισάς με τοῦ λόγου μέτειμι” Ar.Nu.1408, cf. Ach. Tat.6.2.
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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