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πορσύνω [υ_], fut.
A.“-υ^νῶ” A.Supp.522, Ep. -υ^νέω (v.infr.): aor. “ἐπόρσυ_να” S.OT1476, Ep.“πόρσυ_να” Od.7.347; imper. “πόρσυνον” S.Ichn.304: also πορσαίνω , Ep.Iterat. “πορσαίνεσκον” A.R.4.897: Ep.fut.-α^νέω (v. infr.):—in Hom always of the wife preparing her husband's bed, hence a euphem. expression for lie with the husband, share his bed, Ἀλκίνοος δ᾽ ἄρα λέκτο μυχῷ δόμου . . , πὰρ δὲ γυνὴ δέσποινα λέχος πόρσυνε καὶ εὐνήν Od.l.c., cf. 3.403; κεῖσε δ᾽ ἐγὼν οὐκ εἶμι (says Helen) “κείνου πορσυνέουσα λέχος” Il.3.411; later Ep.“λέχος . . πορσυνέεις” A.R.3.1129; “λέκτρον . . πορσαίνουσα” Id.4.1107,1119.
II. generally, prepare, provide, “τρίτον [κρατῆρα] σωτῆρι πορσαίνοντας” Pi.I.6(5).8; δαῖτα ib. 4(3).61; “βίου τροφεῖα” S.OC341; “τὸ κατ᾽ ἆμαρ” Id.Fr.593.5; “παισὶν οἷα χρὴ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν” E.Med.1020; “Νύμφαις π. ἔροτιν” Id.El.625; “γαμβροῖς χάριν” Id.Supp.132; “τὰ ἐπιτήδεια” X.Cyr.4.2.47:—Med., provide for oneself, “δεῖπνον” A.Pers.375.
2. of evils, “ἐχθροῖς ἐχθρά” Id.Ag. 1374; “τόνδε . . μοῖρ᾽ ἐπόρσυνεν μόρον” Id.Ch.911, cf. E.Andr.1063; μεγάλα κακά ib.352; “ὅταν ὁ δαίμων ἀνδρὶ πορσύνῃ κακά” Trag.Adesp. 455; “δίκην” Maiist.57; “π. τοῖς πολεμίοις κακά” X.Cyr.1.6.17:—Pass., “τίνος πρὸς ἀνδρὸς τοῦτ᾽ ἄχος πορσύνεται;” A.Ag.1251; “ἐπορσύνθη κακά” Id.Pers.267.
3. execute, order, arrange, κατὰ δώματα πορσαίνουσι manage (all things) in the house, h.Cer.156; “τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ π.” Hdt.9.7; “ταῦτα” A.Supp.522; “τάδε” S.OT1476; “τἄλλα πάντα” Id.Aj.1398; “πρᾶγμα π. μέγα” Id.El.670; “προκείμενον πόνον” E.Alc.1150; “μοῖρα ἑτέραν ἐπόρσυν᾽ ὁδόν” B.16.89:—Pass., “τὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ οὕτως ἐπορσύνετο” X.Cyr.7.5.17; “ἅμα δὲ ταῦτα ἐπορσύνετο ἀπὸ σημείου” Aen.Tact.29.9; “θεᾶς π. μῆτις” was accomplished, A.R.1.802, cf. 2.1050.
III. treat with care, tend, “ἐκέλευσεν ἥρωϊ πορσαίνειν δόμεν . . βρέφος” Pi.O.6.33; οὕτως ὅπως ἂν μὴ 'γκαλῇ πορσύνετε [αὐτόν] E.Rh. 878; πορσαίνειν δαίμονα honour, adore him, A.R.2.719, cf. 4.897: of things, “τεὸν οἶκον ταῦτα πορσύνοντ᾽” Pi.P.4.151; τῶν δ᾽ Ὁμήρου καὶ τόδε . . ῥῆμα πόρσυν᾽ regard, esteem it, ib.278.—Both forms are found in Pi.and A.R., only πορσύνω in Prose and prob. always to be read in Trag. (never found in Com.): πορσανέουσα was read by Aristarch. in Il.3.411, but πορσυνέουσα most codd., as in Od.ll.cc.: πορσύνων, -ουσα are expld. by ἐρεθίζων, -ουσα in Hsch. (leg. ὀροθυν-).
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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