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ὀπηδ-έω , Dor. ὀπα_δέω (v. ὀπηδός), used by Hom. only in 3sg. pres. ὀπηδεῖ, and impf. ὀπήδει (without augm.): inf.
A.“ὀπηδεῖν” h.Ap.530 :—follow, accompany, attend, τινι Il. 2.184, 24.368, Pi.P.4.287 ; also “ἅμα τινί” Od.7.165, Hes.Th.80, h.Ap. l. c. ; μετά τινι, v. infr. 11.
II. of things (cf. ἕπομαι II), ἀνεμώλια γάρ μοι ὀπηδεῖ [τόξα] useless do they go with me, Il.5.216 ; “ἀρετὴν σὴν . . , ἥ τοι ὀπηδεῖ” Od.8.237 ; “ἐκ δὲ Διὸς τιμὴ καὶ κῦδος ὀπηδεῖ” Il.17.251, cf. Hes.Op.142,313, Thgn.933, etc. ; “μετ᾽ ἀνδράσι λιμὸς ὀπηδεῖ” Hes. Op.230 ; “μετ᾽ ἴχνια Κύρνος ὀ.” Call.Del.19.—Ep. Verb, rare in Trag., as “ὀπαδεῖ” A.Fr.475 ; ὀπαδοῦσ᾽ prob. in Id.Ag.426 (lyr.), and once in a late Pap., Sammelb.4324.11 (Tab. Defix.) : ὀπαδός however is used by Trag.
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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