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στείβω , Il.11.534, E.Ion 495 (anap.): Ep. impf.
A.“στεῖβον” Od.6.92, Iterat. “στείβεσκον” Q.S.1.352: aor. ἔστειψα （κατ-) S.OC467:—tread or stamp on, tread under foot, of horses, “στείβοντες νέκυάς τε καὶ ἀσπίδας” Il.11.534, cf. 20.499; εἵματα . . στεῖβον ἐν βόθροισι trod the clothes in pits, in order to wash and clean them, Od.6.92; “ποσὶν ς. δόμον” AP 9.327 (Hermocr.):—Pass., “κονία στειβομένα” Theoc.17.122; αἱ στειβόμεναι ὁδοί the beaten tracks, X.An.1.9.13.
2. c. acc. cogn., tread or walk on a path, “κέλευθον ποδί” E.Hel.869; “πέδον” A.R.3.836; χοροὺς στείβουσι ποδοῖν tread measures, E.Ion 495 (anap.); νομὸν ς. Nic.Th. 609.
3. abs., tread, “κατ᾽ αἰγίλιπος πέτρης ς. κάρηνα” h.Hom.19.4; “ἵνα στείβουσι κύνες” E.Hipp.217 (anap.), cf. Opp.C.1.456.
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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    • Euripides, Helen, 869
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 217
    • Euripides, Ion, 495
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.534
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.92
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 19 to Pan, 4
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 467
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.9.13
    • Homer, Iliad, 20.499
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.836
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