A.“οἴομαι” Od.10.193, “οἴοιτο” 17.580, 22.12), v. infr. :—the shortd. form οἶμαι is the one chiefly used in Trag., οἴομαι only in A.Ch.758, S.OC28 ; but οἴομαι is freq. in Ar.（Eq.407, al.) ; Hdt. does not use either form ; in Att. Prose codd. vary, but οἶμαι prevails, and was exclusively used in parenthesis (v. infr. IV) : impf. “ᾠόμην” A.Pr.270, Ar.V.791, etc. ; also 1 pers. “ᾤμην” Id.Fr.636, etc. : fut. “οἰήσομαι” Lys.30.8, Pl.R.397a, etc., later “οἰηθήσομαι” Gal.Opt.Doctr.42 :—Ep. aor. ὠϊσάμην (v. infr.) : aor. “ὠΐσθην” Od.4.453, 16.475 ; part. “ὀϊσθείς” Il.9.453 ; Att. and Ion. aor. “ᾠήθην” Hp.VM14, Antipho 1.8, Th.4.130, Pl.Tht.178c, etc. ; but rare in Com. and Trag., “οἰηθῇς” Ar.Eq.860, οἰηθείς, -εῖσα, Antiph.194.2, E. IA986 ; also aor. inf. “οἰήσασθαι” Arat.896 :—Act., Ep. pres. ὀΐω and οἴω , but only in 1sg. (v. infr.) ; Lacon. “οἰῶ” Ar.Lys.81, 156, 998, Epil. 3. [In the uncontr. forms, Hom. uses ι_ in “ὀΐομαι” Il.5.644, “ὀΐεαι” 1.561, Od.10.380, “ὀΐεται” 17.586, “ὀϊόμεθ᾽” 21.322,22.165, “ὀϊόμενος” Il.15.728, Od. 2.351, al. (“οἰόμενος” Call.Epigr.8.2), “ὠΐετο” Od.10.248, “ὀΐσατο” 1.323,9.213,19.390, “ὀϊσάμενος” 15.443 (but the v.l. ὀϊσσατο, ὀϊσσάμενος in Hom. can be supported by “ὀϊσσάμενος” A.R.2.1135, cf. Epic.Alex.Adesp.2.41, Arat.1006, by ὑποίζεσθαι (: ὑπονοεῖν) Hsch., and by “ὠι^σάμην” A.R. 1.291, ὠΐσατο [ι^] Mosch.2.8, etc.) ; Act. pres. ὀΐω has ι_ when it stands at the end of a line, also in Od.19.215 (in fourth foot), 18.259 (before caesura in third foot) ; but ι^ in Il.1.558, 13.153,23.467, etc. ; οἴω as disyll. is always at the end, exc. in 15.298, 21.533, 23.310.] :—forebode, presage, c. acc., “κῆρας ὀϊομένῳ” Il.13.283 ; “γόον δ᾽ ὠΐετο θυμός” Od. 10.248 ; expect, “ἐελδομένοισι μάλ᾽ ἡμῖν, οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ὀϊομένοισι” 24.401 ; suspect, “ἤ τι ὀϊσάμενος, ἢ καὶ θεὸς ὣς ἐκέλευσεν” 9.339 ; “ἦ τινά που δόλον ἄλλον ὀΐεαι” 10.380 ; fear, “κατὰ θυμὸν ὀΐσατο, μή ἑ λαβοῦσα οὐλὴν ἀμφράσσαιτο” 19.390 ; “τῷ ἑπόμην . . , ὀϊόμενός περ, ἀνάγκῃ” 14.298 : abs., αἰεὶ μὲν ὀΐεαι, οὐδέ σε λήθω thou art ever suspecting, Il.1.561 ; “πατὴρ δ᾽ ἐμὸς αὐτίκ᾽ ὀϊσθεὶς πολλὰ κατηρᾶτο” 9.453, cf. Od.15.443 : folld. by ὡς, καὐτὸς ὀΐεαι ὥς κεν ἐτύχθη you can guess how it would have happened, 3.255, cf. 17.586 : c. acc. et fut. inf., “ὀΐομαι ἄνδρα χολωσέμεν” Il.1.78 ; ἅ τιν᾽ οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω ib.289, cf. 5.252,284, al. ; “τὸ καὶ τελέεσθαι ὀΐω” 1.204 ; “ἀλλ᾽ οὐ νῦν ἐρύεσθαι ὀΐομαι” 20.195 : c. acc. et pres. inf., referring to present time, “οὐδέ τι θυμῷ ὠΐσθη δόλον εἶναι” Od.4.453, cf. 10.232 ; “ὀΐσατο γὰρ θεὸν εἶναι” 1.323 ; “τῶ δ᾽ ὀΐω κείνης τάδε πάσχειν ἐννεσίῃσιν” Il.5.894 : c. acc. et aor. inf., referring to past time, “τῇ δ᾽ ὀΐω κατανεῦσαι” 1.558, cf. Od.3.27, al. : the subj. of the inf. must freq. be supplied from the context, διωκέμεναι γὰρ ὀΐω I fear [they] are pursuing me, 15.278, cf. 1.201, 12.212, Il.12.66,al. : c. inf. alone, when both Verbs have the same subject, as κιχήσεσθαι δέ δ᾽ ὀΐω I think I shall catch you, 6.341 ; mean, intend, c. fut. inf., “οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγ᾽ ἔτι σοὶ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω” 1.296, cf. 170, Od.19.215 : c. pres. inf., “οὐ γὰρ ὀΐω ἀνδρῶν δυσμενέων ἑκὰς ἱστάμενος πολεμίζειν” Il.13.262.
III. think, suppose, believe, freq. in Hom., as Il.1.59,5.644, etc. ; “οἶμαι βοὴν ἄμικτον ἐν πόλει πρέπειν” A. Ag.321 ; οἶμαι γάρ νιν ἱκετεύσειν (ἱκετεῦσαι codd.) E.IA462 ; κτήσεσθαι (-σασθαι codd.) Lys.12.19 ; διαπράξεσθαι (-ξασθαι codd.) Id.13.53 ; “ἤδη γὰρ αὐτοὺς οἴομαι δεδειπνάναι” Ar.Fr.464 ; opp. εἰδέναι, Pl.R. 506c4 ; “οἴονται, ἴσασι δ᾽ οὐδέν” Arist.Rh.1389b17, cf.APo.75a15 : folld. by ὅτι . . , Plu.2.90b :—Pass., “μάρτυρας δύο παρεχέτω ὀμνύντας οἰόμενον” that he is the putative father, Schwyzer784a (Tenos, iv B. C.).
IV. parenthetically, mostly in first person, ἐν πρώτοισιν, ὀΐω, κείσεται among the first, I ween, will he be lying, Il.8.536 ; “ἔπειτά γ᾽, ὀΐω, γνώσεαι” Od.16.309, cf. Il.13.153, Od.2.255, etc. : in Hom. only in act. form ὀΐω, exc. “ὀΐομαι” Od.22.140, and perh. 14.363, cf. A.Ch. 758 ; in Att. this parenthetic use is prob. confined to the shorter form οἶμαι, impf. ᾤμην ; rarely in other persons than the first, as οὐκ οἴει ἀναγκασθήσεται; Pl.R.486c, cf. Tht.147b ; πόσης οἴεσθε γέμει σωφροσύνης; Id.Smp.216d.
2. expressive of modesty or courtesy, to avoid over-great bluntness of assertion, Id.Grg.483c, X.Cyr.1.3.11, etc. : even between a Prep. and its case, “ἐξ οἶμαι τῆς ἀκροτάτης ἐλευθερίας” Pl.R.564a ; “ἐν οἶμαι πολλοῖς” D.20.3 ; or between Art. and Subst., “οἱ γὰρ οἶμαι βέλτιστοι” Id.54.38.
V. answering a question, I think so, I should think so, Ar.Ach.919, etc. ; “νὴ τὸν Ἡρακλέα, οἶμαί γε” Id.Th.27 ; “οἶμαι ἔγωγε” Pl.Cri.47d, etc. ; οἴεσθαί γε χρή one must think so, it would seem so, Id.Prt.325c, Cri.53d, Phd.68b, Grg. 522a.
VI. Att. phrases:
1. πῶς οἴει; you can't think how, to add force, like πῶς δοκεῖς ; “πόθος τὴν καρδίαν ἐπάταξε πῶς οἴει σφόδρα” Ar.Ra.54.
2. οἴομαι δεῖν I think it my duty, think fit, hence sts., intend, purpose, λέγειν οἴεται δεῖν ποιεῖν δεινούς his object is to train orators, Pl.Men.95c, cf. 86b, Tht.207e ; “βδελυρὸς καὶ ὑβριστὴς ᾤετο δεῖν εἶναι” D.21.143 ; “τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἀμυνόμενοι τεθνάναι δεῖν ᾤοντο” Id.60.31, cf. Pl.Prt.316c, X.An.2.6.26, Mem.4.6.3,6 ; [ὁ ἀκόλαστος] οἰόμενος δεῖν [διώκει τὰ ἡδέα] intentionally, Arist.EN1152a6, cf. 1136b8, Pl.Hipparch.225b ; but οἴομαι δὲ δεῖν οὐδέν methinks there is no need, S.OC28 ; and in Pl.Alc.2.144d ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον . . οἰηθῆναι δεῖν . . ἡμᾶς εἰδέναι ἢ τῷ ὄντι εἰδέναι; must we not either think we know or really know? (δεῖν being superfluous).
