A.“-ήσω” Pl.Lg.875b : aor. “ὥρμησα” Il.6.338, Pl.Ion534c; Lacon. imper. ὅρμα_ον, i.e. ὅρμαὁν, = ὅρμησον, Ar.Lys.1247: pf. “ὥρμηκα” Pl.Plt.265a :—Med. and Pass., Pi.N.1.5, A.Pr.339, Hdt.1.17, etc.: Ep. impf. “ὡρμᾶτο” Il.3.142: fut. “ὁρμήσομαι” Hdt.5.34, X.Cyr.7.1.9, “ὁρμηθήσομαι” Gal.5.85: aor. “ὡρμησάμην” Il.21.595, v.l. in Hes.Sc. 127 (ἐφ-), never in Prose, exc. “ἐξ-” X.HG6.5.20 codd.: more freq. in pass. form “ὡρμήθην” Il.5.12, al., Th.3.98, etc.: pf. “ὥρμημαι” S.El.70, E. El.340, Th.6.33, etc.: Ion. 3pl. pf. and plpf. ὁρμέαται and -έατο (with vv. ll. ὡρμ-) Hdt.5.121, 8.35 ; in Hom. codd. usu. have the augm., but Aristarch. read ὁρμήθησαν in Il.10.359: (ὁρμή):
A. Act.,
I. causal, set in motion, urge on, cheer on, “τινὰ εἰς πόλεμον” Il.6.338, Th.1.127 ; “τινὰ ποτὶ κλέος” Pi.O.10(11).21 ; “τὸ στράτευμα ὁ. ἐπὶ τὰς Ἀθήνας” Hdt.8.106, cf. S.Aj.174 (lyr.), E.Or.352 (anap.); “ἡ φύσις ὁρμήσει τινὰ ἐπὶ πλεονεξίαν” Pl.Lg.875b, cf. Ion534c ; “[τὰ] ὁρμῶντα [σώματα]” Hp.Epid.6.8.7; “μέριμναν ὁρμήσασ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἔργον” E.Ph.1064 (lyr.); ὁ. τινὰ ἐκ χερός tear from one's arms, Id.Hec.143 (anap.):—Pass., ὁρμηθεὶς θεοῦ ἄρχετο inspired by the god he began, Od.8.499 ; “πρὸς θεῶν ὡρμημένος” S.El.70 ; “ὑπὸ ἔρωτος” Pl.Smp.181d ; ἵπποι . . ὁρμηθέντες ὑπὸ πληγῇσιν ἱμάσθλης urged on by . . , Od.13.82.
2. with a thing as the object, stir up, “πόλεμον” 18.376: c. acc. et inf., “τὰς διόδους τῶν πτερῶν . . ὥρμησε πτεροφυεῖν” Pl.Phdr.255d :—Pass., “ὡρμάθη πλαγά” was sped, S.El.196 (lyr.).
II. more freq. intr., start,
1. c. inf., ἴρηξ ὃς ὁρμήσῃ διώκειν ὄρνεον ἄλλο starts in chase of . . , Il.13.64; ὁσσάκι δ᾽ ὁρμήσειε πυλάων . . ἀντίον ἀΐξασθαι whenever he started to rush for the gates, 22.194 ; “ὁσσάκι δ᾽ ὁρμήσειε . . στῆναι ἐναντίβιον” 21.265 ; ἐξελαύνειν ὁρμῆσαι τὸν στρατόν began to lead out . . , Hdt.1.76, cf.7.150 ; “νίκην ὁρμῶντ᾽ ἀλαλάξαι” eager to . . , S.Ant.133 (lyr.); “ὥρμα ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι τοῦ λόγου” Pl.R.336b.
2. c. gen., rush headlong at one, “Τρώων” Il.4.335 : more freq. with Preps., “ὁ. ἐπί τινα” Hes.Sc.403, Hdt. 1.1, etc.; “πύργωμα Καδμείων ἔπι” E.Supp.1220 ; “εἴς τινας” X.Cyr.7.1.17 ; “καθ᾽ αὑτούς” Id.An.5.7.25 ; also ὁ. ἐς μάχην hasten to battle, A.Pers. 394 ; “εἰς ἀγῶνα” E.Ph.259(lyr.) ; “εἰς τὸ διώκειν” X.An.1.8.25 ; “ἐπὶ ἁρπαγάς” Pl.R.391d ; “ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους” Th.7.34 ; ὥρμασε (Dor.) “ἐπὶ τὰ βασίλεια τῶν Σκυθᾶν” SIG709.19 (Chersonesus, ii B. C.) : without any sense of hostility, rush, “τᾶσδ᾽ ἀπὸ πέτρας πηδήσασα πυρὸς ἔσω” E.Supp.1015 (lyr.); “ἐς πατρὸς δόμους” Id.Med.1178 ; set out, “ἀπὸ [τῆς Οἰνόης]” Th.2.19 ; “ἐς φυγήν” Hdt.7.179, etc.; “εἰς τὸ ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνα τῆς γῆς” Pl.Phd.112b; “ἐπ᾽ ἄλλον λόγον” Antipho 3.4.5; “ἐπὶ τὸ σκοπεῖν” X.Mem.3.7.9 ; ἐπὶ τραγῳδίαν ὥρμηκε has turned to tragedy, Alex.135.14 ; δηλώσεις . . τὴν φύσιν ἐπὶ τί μάλισθ᾽ ὥρμηκε, i. e. what your natural bent is, ib.8 ; “φυσικῶς ἐπὶ τὴν ὀργὴν ὁρμᾶν” Phld.Ir.93 W.; “πρὸς τὰς πράξεις” Id.Mus.p.71 K.; “ἐπὶ φιλοσοφίαν” Id.Acad.Ind.p.64 M. ; “πρὸς τὰς ὀχείας” Arist.HA 546a15 : c. acc. cogn., “ὁδόν” X.An.3.1.8 ; “στρατείαν” Id.Cyr.8.6.20.
3. abs., start, begin, “ὥσπερ ὡρμήσαμεν, ἴωμεν” Pl.Prt.314b, cf. R.425c; αἱ μάλιστα ὁρμήσασαι [νῆες] the ships that were hottest in pursuit, Th.8.34.
B. Med. and Pass., like the intr. Act., A. II:
1. c. inf., μὴ φεύγειν ὁρμήσωνται that they put not themselves in motion, set not themselves to flee, Il.8.511 ; so “διώκειν ὁρμήθησαν” 10.359, cf. Od.4.282 ; ὡρμήθη κόρυθα κρατὸς ἀφαρπάξαι he rushed to snatch . . , Il.13.188, cf. 182 ; ἦτορ ὡρμᾶτο πτολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μάχεσθαι was eager to . . , 21.572 ; μᾶλλον ὅρμητο στρατεύεσθαι was eager to march, Hdt.7.1, cf. 19, al., Th.3.45 ; ὅδε ὁ λόγος ὅρμηται λέγεσθαι this account has begun to be given, Hdt.4.16, cf. 6.86.δ᾽ (λέγεσθαι is restored for λέγεται in 3.56); but λόγον, τὸν ὅρμητο λέγειν which he purposed to make, Id.5.50.
2. the object for or after which one goes is sts. in gen., Il.14.488, 21.595 : a case with a Prep., “ὡρμήθησαν ἐπ᾽ ἀνδράσιν” Od.10.214; “ἐπί τινα” S.Aj.47, etc.; “εἴς τινα” X.Cyr.7.1.9 ; μετά τινα after one, Il.17.605 ; so “ὁ. ἐπὶ τὸ ἱρόν” Hdt.8.35 ; “ἐς πύλας” A.Th.31 ; “πρὸς δόμους” E.Hipp. 1152 ; “ἐπ᾽ ἀλήθειαν” Pl.Sph.228c ; “ἐς φυγήν” Th.4.14 ; “πρὸς τίσιν” S.OC1328 ; “πρὸς τὸ κρατεῖν” Pl.R.581a ; “[ἡ ποίησις] πρὸς ἡδονὴν ὥρμηται” Id.Grg.502c ; οἱ περὶ λόγον ἢ παιδείαν ὁρμώμενοι persons keen about . . , Vett.Val.199.5 : rarely c. acc. loci, “νερτέρας πλάκας” S.OC1576 (lyr.).
b. the starting-point is expressed by “ἐκ, ὡρμᾶτ᾽ ἐκ θαλάμοιο” Il.3.142, cf. 9.178, etc. ; or ἀπό, S.Tr.156, Pl. Phd.101d, etc.; “ἀπὸ φιλοσοφίας” Phld.Rh.1.357 S.; or by a form in “-θεν, σέθεν . . ὕμνος ὁρμᾶται θέμεν αἶνον” Pi.N.1.5 : in historical Prose, ὁρμᾶσθαι ἐκ . . start from, begin from, esp. of the place where one carries on any regular operations, ἐνθεῦτεν ὁρμώμενοι living there and going out from thence to do their daily work, Hdt.1.17 ; of fishers, “ἐκ πλοίων ὁρμώμενοι” Id.3.98 ; of a general, making that place his head-quarters or base of operations, Id.8.133, cf. 5.125, al., Th.1.64, 2.69, al.; ἀπ᾽ ἐλασσόνων ὁρμώμενος setting out, beginning with smaller means, ib.65, cf. 1.144 ; of rivers, “ἐκ τῆς Ἴδης ὁ.” rising . . , Pl.Lg.682b.
