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πυνθάνομαι , Od.2.315, etc.; poet. also πεύθομαι (q.v.): Ep. impf.
A.“πυνθανόμην” 13.256: fut. “πεύσομαι” Il.18.19, etc., Dor. “πευσοῦμαι” Theoc.3.51 (so cod. Med. in A.Pr.988): aor. “ἐπυ^θόμην” Il.5. 702, etc., Ep. and Lyr. “πυθόμην” Od.4.732, B.15.26; imper. πυθοῦ, Ion. “πυθεῦ” Hdt.3.68; Ep. opt. “πεπύθοιτο” Il.6.50, al. (subj. πεπύθωνται is f.l. for γε πύθωνται, 7.195); 3pl. “πυθοίατο” S.OC921: pf. “πέπυσμαι” Od.11.505, etc.; 2sg. “πέπυ^σαι” Pl.Prt.310b, Ep. “πέπυσσαι” Od.11.494; inf. “πεπύσθαι” Th.7.67, etc.; part. “πεπυσμένος” Pl.Smp.179e: plpf. “ἐπεπύσμην” Ar.Pax615, Av.470; 3sg. “ἐπέπυστο” Il.13.674, Ep. πέπυστο ib.521; 3dual “πεπύσθην” 17.377:—learn, whether by hearsay or by inquiry (“ἐξιστορήσαντες τὰ ἐβούλοντο πυθέσθαι” Hdt.7.195): constr.
1. π. τί τινος learn something from a person, Il.17.408, Od.10.537, A.Ag.599, Ar.Ra.1417, etc.; also “π. τι ἀπό τινος” A.Ch. 737; “ἐξ ἄλλων” S.OC1266; “ἐκ τοῦ παρατυχόντος” Th.1.22; freq. παρά τινος, Hdt.2.91, etc.; παρ᾽ ἄλλων (v.l. ἄλλων) X.Cyr.4.1.3.
2. c. acc. rei only, hear or learn a thing, Od.2.411, A.Ch.765, Antipho 5.25, etc.: abs., “αἰσχρὸν τόδε γ᾽ ἐστὶ καὶ ἐσσομένοισι πυθέσθαι” Il.2.119, cf. Pi.P.7.7, etc.; “ὡς ἐγὼ πυνθάνομαι” Hdt.1.22, etc.
3. c. gen. objecti, hear or inquire concerning, πυθέσθαι πατρός, ἀγγελιάων, μάχης, Od.1.281, 2.256, Il.15.224, cf. S.El.35, Pl.Lg.635b.
4. π. τινά τινος inquire about one person of or from another, “τὸν ἄνδρα τῶν ὁδοιπόρων” Ar.Ach.204; so “π. περί τινος” Hdt.2.75; “πᾶσαν πυθέσθαι τῶνδ᾽ ἀλήθειαν πέρι” S.Tr.91: c. acc. pers. only, inquire about a person, Ar.Th.619.
5. c. part., πυθόμην ὁδὸν ὁρμαίνοντα that he was starting, Od.4.732, cf. Hdt.9.58, S.Aj.692; “π. τὸ Πλημμύριον ἑαλωκός” Th.7.31, cf. X.An.1.7.16, etc.; οὔ πω . . πεπύσθην Πατρόκλοιο θανόντος they had not yet heard of his being dead, Il.17.377, cf. 427, 19.322, A.Ch.763; “ὡς ἐπύθοντο τῆς Πύλου κατειλημμένης” Th.4.6: with acc. rei added, “εἰ σφῶϊν τάδε πάντα πυθοίατο μαρναμένοιιν” Il.1.257.
6. c. acc. et inf., hear or learn that . . , Hdt.1.62, 5.15, S. Tr.103 (lyr.), Th.7.25, etc.
7. folld. by an interrog. clause, “ὡς πυθώμεθα ὅπου ποτ᾽ ἐσμέν” S.OC11; αὐτοῦ π. τί ποτε νοεῖ inquire or learn from him what . ., Pl.La.196c, cf. X.An.6.3.25, Plb.3.107.6; “π., ὅτεῳ . . συνοικέει” Hdt.3.68; π. εἰ . . inquire whether . ., S.OC993, IG42(1).121.18 (Epid., iv B.C.); “τοῦ ξένου ἡδέως ἂν π., τί ταῦθ᾽ ἡγοῦντο” Pl.Sph.216d; π. τινῶν, ὅτι . . X.An.4.6.17; π., ὅπως ἂν κάλλιστα πορευθείη ib.3.1.7, cf. Cyr.1.4.7.
II. Act., aor. 1 part. fem. “πεύσασα” having learned, PMasp.5.7 (vi A.D.).
2. v. πεύθω.
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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