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*σχέθω , assumed as a collat. form of ἔχω by Gramm. (Hdn.Gr.1.440, EM739.51), but all forms in use may be referred to aor. ἔσχεθον, a poet. lengthd. form of ἔσχον, the accents σχέθειν, σχέθων being errors for σχεθεῖν, σχεθών:—
A.hold, “πάροιθεν ἀσπίδας . . σχέθον αὐτοῦ” Il.14.428, cf. 4.113; “ἀσπίδας . . σχέθ᾽ ἀπὸ ἕο” 13.163; “ἐπ᾽ ἀγκῶνος κεφαλὴν σχέθεν” Od.14.494; “σχέθον ἔξω νῆα” 10.95.
2. have, get, “νόον σχέθε τόνδ᾽ ἐνὶ θυμῷ” 14.490; “Ἄργει τ᾽ ἔσχεθε κῦδος” Pi.O.9.88; “τόλμαν σχεθεῖν” A.Pr.16; “ἐν φρεσὶν καρδίαν σχεθών” Id.Ch.832 (lyr.) codd.; “τεύξει . . , ὅσων παρ᾽ ἄλλων οὔποτ᾽ ἂν σχέθοις βροτῶν” Id.Eu.857, cf. Pi.O.1.71; ἐκ μὲν Ἐριχθονίου . . ἔσχεθε κοῦρον had a child, S.Fr. 242 (hexam., prob an Epic fragment); “ἐν φυλακᾷ σχεθέμεν τινά” Pi. P.4.75.
II. hold back, keep away or off, “στεφάνη δόρυ οἱ σχέθε” Il. 11.96, cf. 12.184; “ἔσχεθεν ἱεμένους περ” Od.16.430; “σχέθον ἵππους” Il.16.506; “ἔσχεθον αὐδήν” 19.418; “σχεθέτω φόρμιγγα” Od.8.537; “νύκτα σχέθεν” 23.243; αἷμα ἔσχεθον staunched it, 19.458: c. gen., “σχέθε δ᾽ ὄσσε γόοιο” 4.758; “ὅπως ἂν αὐτὰς ὕβρεως σχέθω” Ar.Lys.425, cf. Theoc. 22.96: c. part., ἐρέφοντα σχέθοι might stop him from wreathing, Pi. I.4(3).54(72): c. inf., “οὔτ᾽ ἂν Αἴαντος δόρυ μὴ πάντα πέρσαι . . σχέθοι” E.Rh.602.
III. abs., οὐδ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀχῆες ἐσχεθέτην did not hold, Il.12.461.--Rare in Prose, Aret.CA2.4.
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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