Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“θέῃσι” 22.23; 3sg. impf. “ἔθει” Od.12.407 and later, “ἔθεε” Il.1.483, Hdt.1.43 (and in later Prose, D.S.16.94); Ep. “θέε” Il.20.275, Hes.Sc.224; Ion. impf. “θέεσκον” Il.20.229: fut. “θεύσομαι” 23.623, Ar.Eq.485,Av.205, (ὑπο-) Pi.P.2.84, (ἀντι-) Hdt. 5.22, (μετα-) X.Cyn.6.22; “θεύσω” Lyc.1119: aor. 1 ἔθευσα （δι-) Vett.Val.345.35, part. “θεύσας” IGRom.4.1740 (Cyme):—the other tenses are supplied by τρέχω and Δρέμω : (θεϝ-, Skt. dhávate):— run, ποσί, πόδεσσι, Od.8.247, Il.23.623; “βῆ δὲ θέειν” 17.698; “θέῃσι τιταινόμενος πεδίοιο” 22.23; ποῖθεῖς; Ar.V.854; θᾶττον θανάτου θεῖ [ἡ πονηρία] Pl.Ap.39b; “ὁ βραδέως θέων” Id.Hp.Mi.373d; of horses, Id.Cra. 423a; “ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ θεόντων ἵππων” Id.Lg.822b: in part. with another Verb, ἦλθε θέων, ἦλθε θέουσα, came running, Il.6.54,394, etc.; ἷξε θέων, of a person on ship-board, Od.3.288; θέων Αἴαντα κάλεσσον run and call him, Il.12.343, etc.

2. περὶ τρίποδος γὰρ ἔμελλον θεύσεσθαι to run for a tripod, 11.701: metaph. (cf. “τρέχω” 11.2), περὶ ψυχῆς θέον Ἕκτορος they were running for Hector's life, 22.161; “θ. περὶ ὑμέων αὐτῶν” Hdt.8.140.ά; θ. <τον> περὶ τοῦ παντὸς δρόμον ib.74; “περὶ γυναικῶν καὶ παίδων” Paus.6.18.3.

3. metaph., “θ. ἐς νόσους” Pl.Lg.691c; “θ. ἐγγύτατα ὀλέθρου” Id.R.417b; “θεῖν παρὰ τὸν ἔσχατον κίνδυνον” Plu. Fab.26.

II. of other kinds of motion, as,

1. of birds, “θεύσονται δρόμῳ” Ar.Av.205.

2. of things, run; of ships, “ἡ δ᾽ ἔθεεν κατὰ κῦμα” Il.1.483, cf. X.HG6.2.29; of a potter's wheel, Il.18.601; of a rolling stone, 13.141; of a quoit, ῥίμφα θέων ἀπὸ χειρός flying lightly . . , Od.8.193.

3. metaph., “δύναμις θαυμαστὴ ἐκεῖ θεῖ” Plot.2.9.8, cf. 6.5.11.

III. of things not actually in motion, [“φλὲψ] ἀνὰ νῶτα θέουσα διαμπερές” Il.13.547; “ἄντυξ ἣ πυμάτη θέεν ἀσπίδος” 6.118; “ἀμφὶ δέ μιν κίβισις θέε” Hes.Sc.224; “γραμμῆς περὶ [σημεῖον] θεούσης” Plot.6.5.11.

IV. c. acc. loci, run over, “τὰ ὄρη” X.Cyn.4.6, cf. 5.17; “μέσσα θέων πελάγευς” AP7.273 (Leon.), cf. 10.23 (Autom.); “πλωτῶν γένος ὑγρὰ θεόντων” Opp.H.3.183.—The simple Verb is used in Trag. only by E.Ion1217.