A.“σευέμεν” A.R.2.296; with ς doubled after the augm., as always in Hom. (exc. in ἐξεσύθη (Zenod. and most codd. for -λύθη) Il.5.293): Ep. impf. “σεύεσκε” Q.S.2.353: aor. “ἔσσευα” Il.5.208; Ep. also “σεῦα” 20.189; 3sg. subj. “σεύῃ” 11.293:—Med., aor. subj. σεύωνται (v.l. -ονται) ib.415: impf. or aor. “ἐσσεύοντο” 2.808: aor. “ἐσσεύαντο” 11.549 (v.l. -οντο); Ep. “σεύατο” 6.505:—Pass., B.Scol.Oxy.1361Fr.1.7: aor. ἐσύθην [υ^] E.Hel.1302 (lyr.) (“ἐξ-” Il., v. supr.), “ἐσσύθην” S.Aj.294, also “σύθην” A.Pr.135 (lyr.); subj. 3sg. “συθῇ” Hp.Mul.1.36, 2.138; part. “συθείς” A.Th.941, Pers.866, S.OC119(alllyr.); in iamb., Id.OT446: pf. (with pres. sense) “ἔσσυ^μαι” Il.13.79; part. ἐσσύμενος (not -μένος) 11.554, al., Adv. “ἐσσυ^μένως” 3.85, al.: σεσύανται: ὡρμήκασιν, Hsch.: poet.aor. 2 ἐσσύμην [υ^], 2sg. “ἔσσυο” Il.16.585, Od.9.447; 3sg. ἔσσυ^το, Ep. “σύτο” Il.21.167, “ἐπ-έσυτο” E.Hel. 1162,Ph.1065 (both lyr.); part. “σύμενος” A.Ag.747, Eu.1007, cf. 786, 816 (all lyr.): also σεῦται, 3sg. pres. Pass., S.Tr.645 (σοῦται is prob. cj.), σοῦμαι (Dor. “σῶμαι” Epil.3), “σοῦνται” A.Pers.25 (anap.); imper. “σοῦ” Ar.V.209, “σούσθω” S.Aj.1414 (anap.), “σοῦσθε” A.Th.31, Ar.V.458, etc.; inf. “σοῦσθαι” Plu.2.362c: Hsch. cites imper. σύθι or σῦθι:—poet. Verb (also in Ion. Prose, Hp. and Aret. (v. infr.)), put in quick motion, drive: esp.
1. hunt, chase, “Διωνύσοιο τιθήνας σεῦε κατ᾽ ἠγάθεον Νυσήϊον” Il.6.133; drive away, “σεῦεν κύνας ἄλλυδις ἄλλον πυκνῇσιν λιθάδεσσιν” Od.14.35; σεύοντ᾽ (3pl.) “ἀγέλας βίᾳ” B.17.10: more freq. in Med., “ὡς δ᾽ ὅτε κάπριον ἀμφὶ κύνες σεύωνται” Il.11.415, cf. 549, 3.26; “ὥς τ᾽ . . ἄγριον αἶγα ἐσσεύαντο κύνες” 15.272, cf. 20.148: metaph., “ς. κακότητα ἀπὸ καρήνου” h.Hom.8.12; θάμβος με ς. Orph.L. 531.
3. drive or hurry away to or from a place, “Αἰνείαν δ᾽ ἔσσευεν ἀπὸ χθονός” 20.325; “ἵππους ἐκ πεδίοιο” 15.681; [“τινὰ] κατ᾽ Ἰδαίων ὀρέων” 20.189: c. inf., [ἡμιόνους] σεῦαν ποταμὸν παρὰ δινήεντα τρώγειν . . drove, Od.6.89.
4. set in swift motion, ὅλμον δ᾽ ὣς ἔσσευε [Πείσανδρον] κυλίνδεσθαι sped him so that he rolled, Il.11.147; “στρόμβον δ᾽ ὣς ἔσσευε βαλών” 14.413; also αἷμ᾽ ἔσσευα shed blood, 5.208; v. infr. 11.1.
II. Pass. and Med., to be put in quick motion, and so, run, rush, dart or shoot along, ἐπὶ τεύχεα to arms, 2.808; “ἐπὶ κοῖτον” Od.14.456; “νέρθε δὲ ποσσὶν ἔσσυμαι” Il.13.79; “σεύατ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ ἀνὰ ἄστυ” 6.505; “σεύατ᾽ ἔπειτ᾽ ἐπὶ κῦμα” Od.5.51, cf. Il.14.227; “κατ᾽ ἀμαξιτόν” 22.146; “παρ᾽ ἐρινεόν” 11.167; ἀμφ᾽ Ὀδυσῆα ib.419; “ἰθὺς Λυκίων” 16.585; “διὰ σπέος” Od.9.447; so in Trag., ἐκτόπιος συθείς having gone, departed, opp. παρών, S.OC119; “ἀφ᾽ ἑστίας” A.Pers.866; “ἐκ ναοῦ” E.IT 1294; “σύθην δ᾽ ἀπέδιλος ὄχῳ πτερωτῷ” A.Pr.135; “κατὰ γᾶς σύμεναι” Id.Eu.1007, cf. Ag.747; “ἀνὰ νάπη” E.Hel.1302; of things, αἷμα σύτο gushed out, Il.21.167; “ψυχὴ κατ᾽ . . ὠτειλὴν ἔσσυτο” 14.519; “ἐκ πυρὸς συθεὶς σίδηρος” A.Th.941; “ἐσύθη ἔξω πῦον” Aret.SD1.9; so of flux, “ἢν πολλὰ συθῇ” Hp.Mul.1.36; of the eruption of disease, ὅταν τὰ παρέοντα συθῇ νοσήματα ib.2.138.
2. c. inf., hasten, speed, ὅτε σεύαιτο διώκειν when he hasted to pursue, Il.17.463; ὄφρα ὕλη σεύαιτο καήμεναι that the wood might begin (cf. Engl. start) to burn, 23.198, cf. 210; ἔσσυται κελαδῆσαι is eager to sing of, Pi.I.8(7).67.
3. metaph., to be eager, have longings, “θυμὸς ἔσσυται” Od.10.484; esp. in pf. part. ἐσσύμενος used as Adj, v. sub voce. (σεϝ-: συ^-, from I.-Eur. [kcirc ]yew-: [kcirc ]y[ucaron]-, cf. Skt. cyávati 'set in motion', part. Pass. cyutás:—σοῦμαι, etc., perh. contr. fr. Σοοῦμαι ( = Σοόομαι, fr. σό(ϝ)ος, q.v.).)