A.“αἰσθανοίατο” Ar.Pax209: impf. ῃσθανόμην: fut. “αἰσθήσομαι” S.Ph.75, etc.; later “αἰσθανθήσομαι” LXX Is.49.26; αἰσθηθήσομαι ib.33.11: aor. 2 ᾐσθόμην: pf. ᾔσθημαι: later, aor. 1 ᾐσθησάμην Sch.Arat.418; “ᾐσθήθην” LXX Jb.40.18: (cf. ἀΐω):—perceive, apprehend by the senses, Alcmaeon 1a, Hdt.3.87, Democr.11, etc.; “τῇ ὄψει, τῇ ἁφῇ, τῇ ἀκοῇ” Hp.Off.1; αἰ. τῇ ἀκοῇ, τῇ ὀσμῇ, Th.6.17, X.Mem.3.11.8; see, S.Ph.75, etc.; hear, “βοήν” Id.Aj. 1318, cf. Ph.252; οὐκ εἶδον αὐτόν, ᾐσθόμην δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ὄντανιν ib.445; τινὸς ὑποστενούσης αἰ. Id.El.79; “βοῆς” E.Hipp.603, etc.
2. of mental perception, perceive, understand, “τῇ γνώμῃ αἰσθέσθαι” Hp.Off.1; “τὸ πραχθέν” Lys.9.4, cf. Th.3.36, etc.:— hear, learn, v. infr. 11: abs., αἰσθάνει you are right, E.Or.752; ᾔσθημαι, in parenthesis, Id.Hipp. 1403.
II. Construct. in both senses, c. gen., take notice of, have perception of, “τῶν κακῶν” E.Tr.638 s. v.l.; rarely “περί τινος” Th.1.70; αἰ. ὑπό τινος learn from one, Id.5.2; “διά τινος” Pl.Tht.184e, al.: c. acc., S.El.89, Ph.252, E.Hel.653, 764, etc.:—freq. with part. agreeing with subject, “αἰσθάνομαι κάμνων” Th.2.51; “αἰσθώμεθα γελοῖοι ὄντες” Pl.Thg.122c; agreeing with object, “τυράννους ἐκπεσόντας ᾐσθόμην” A.Pr.957, cf. Th.1.47, etc.; “ἤδη τινῶν ᾐσθόμην ἀχθομένων” Lys.16.20, cf. Pl.Ap.22c; “ᾐσθόμην τεχνωμένου” Ar.V.176: less freq. c. acc. et inf., Th.6.59; αἰ. ὅτι . . Id.5.2, Pl.Ap.21e, etc.; ᾔσθετο ὅτι τὸ στράτευμα ἦν . . X.An.1.2.21; αἰ. ὡς . . ib.3.1.40, etc.; οὕνεκα . . S.El. 1477:—abs., αἰσθανόμενος having full possession of one's faculties, “τῇ ἡλικίᾳ” Th.5.26; sensible, of keen perception, “καὶ μετρίως αἰσθανομένῳ φανερόν” X.Mem.4.1.1, cf. Th.1.71, Pl.R.360d.—The Pass. is supplied by αἴσθησιν παρέχω, cf. “αἴσθησις” 1.
III. display feeling, Arist.Po.1454b37.
