A.pray for, c. acc. “θεσσάμενος γενεήν” Hes.Fr. 201; “γλυκερὸν νόστον” Archil.11; “παίδων γένος” A.R.1.824, cf. Euph. 136: c. inf., τάν ποτ᾽ εὔανδρον [εἶναι] . . θέσσαντο prayed that this land might be . . , Pi.N.5.10 (Hsch. also has θέσσεσθαι, θεσσόμενος, θήσω, θησόμενοι, θησάμενοι):—hence Adj. θεστός , only in compds. ἀπόθεστος, πολύθεστος (q.v.), Boeot. pr. n. Θεόφειστος, Ion. Ἐρμόθεστος. (Perh. g[uglide]hedh-, cf. πόθος (fr. φόθος), OIr. -guidiu, Welsh gweddïo 'pray', Lith. gedėti 'mourn'; θήσω, θησόμενοι, θησάμενοι seem to be analogical formations.)
θέσσασθαι , poet. aor.
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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