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ἐπι-ψαύω , Dor. fut.
A.“-ψαυσῶ” Archim. Con.Sph.30:—touch on the surface, touch lightly, c. gen., Hes.Sc.217, Hdt.3.87, etc.; attain, abs., “κατὰ πᾶν τέλος” Pi.I.4(3).11 ; ἐ. φιλοτάτων to aspire to loves, Id.P.4.92 ; “ἐ. τινὸς οὐδὲ κατὰ μικρόν” Phan.Hist. 19 ; γῆς ἐ., of shipwrecked persons, S.Fr.636.2 : generally, handle, “κώπης” Id.Ph.1255 ; meddle with, “τάφου” Id.Aj.1394 : metaph., also, touch lightly upon, Hdt.2.65.
b. Geom., ἡ -ψαύουσα (sc. γραμμή) tangent, Archim.Sph.Cyl.1.12, etc.
2. c.dat., Q.S.2.456.
3. c. acc., Id.12.551.
II. once in Hom., intr. and metaph., ὅς τ᾽ ὀλίγον περ ἐπιψαύῃ πραπίδεσσιν who can reach ever so little way by his wits, Od.8.547.
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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