A.busy oneself about, take heed of, care for, c. gen., “ἐμῶν ἐμπάζεο μύθων” Od.1.271, al.; “οὔτε θεοπροπίης ἐμπάζομαι” Il.16.50, cf. Od.2.201; “οὔτε ξείνων ἐμπάζομαι οὔθ᾽ ἱκετάων” 19.134; οὐκ ἐμπαζόμενον δόξης Timo 50: once c. acc. pers., “οὐχ ἱκέτας ἐμπάζεαι” Od.16.422; also “Ἔριν δ᾽ ἀγέραστον ἐάσας οὐ Χείρων ἀλέγιζε καὶ οὐκ ἐμπάζετο Πηλεύς” Coluth.38:—Ep. word, used in late Prose, “οὐκ ἀλέγων Ἀδράστειαν οὐδὲ Νέμεσιν ἐμπαζόμενος” Ael.Fr.325.
ἐμπάζομαι , used only in pres. (and later impf., Bion Fr.7.9, Coluth. 113, Nonn.D.15.214),