A.“ἐπεφοίτεε” Nonn.D.1.321); Dor. inf. “φοιτῆν” Bion Fr.2; impf.Dor. 3sg. “ἐφοίτη” Theoc.2.155; Ep. 3dual “φοιτήτην” Il.12.266; Ion. “φοίτεσκον” Asius 13.1: Aeol. aor. subj. 2sg. “-άσῃς” Sapph.68:—go to and fro, backwards and forwards, and generally, with notion of repeated motion, stalk; “ἀν᾽ ὅμιλον ἐφοίτα θηρὶ ἐοικώς” Il.3.449, cf. 13.760; “φοίτα δ᾽ ἄλλοτε μὲν πρόσθ᾽ Ἕκτορος, ἄλλοτ᾽ ὄπισθε” 5.595; “φοίτων ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα κατὰ στρατόν” 2.779; “ἐφοίτων ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος” Od.9.401., cf.10.119; “πάντῃ φοιτήσασα” Il.20.6; “φοίτα μακρὰ βιβάς” 15.686, cf. Od.11.539; διὰ νηὸς φ. keep going from one part to another, 12.420; “ἀφάνης κἀν Ἀΐδα δόμῳ φοιτάσῃς” Sapph. l.c.; of birds on the wing, Od.2.182, E.Hipp. 1059, Ion 154 (lyr.); of horses going to feed, Hdt.1.78; of hounds casting about for the scent, X.Cyn.4.4, 6.19; φοιτᾷς ὑπερπόντιος ἔν τ᾽ ἀγρονόμοις αὐλαῖς, of love frequenting both sea and land, S.Ant. 785 (lyr.), cf. E.Hipp.447; of young men strutting about to show their persons, “λαμπροί τ᾽ ἐν ἥβῃ καὶ πόλεως ἀγάλματα φοιτῶσ᾽” Id.Fr. 282.11.
2. roam wildly about, Il.24.533; “οἱ δὲ μεγάλα στενάχοντες φοίτων” Od.14.355; “φοιτῶν μανιάσιν νόσοις” S.Aj.59, cf. OT476 (lyr.), 1255: hence, roam about in frenzy or ecstacy, ἐς Διόνυσον, of a Bacchant, AP6.172.
3. of sexual intercourse, go in to a man or woman, “εἰς εὐνὴν φοιτῶντε” Il.14.296; “πρὸς ἀλλήλους” Pl.R.390c; “πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα” Lys.1.19; παρ᾽ αὐτήν ib.15; “παρὰ τὸν ἑωυτῆς ἄνδρα” Hdt.2.111; “παρὰ τοὺς δούλους” Id.4.1; “ἐν περιτροπῇ αἱ γυναῖκες φοιτῶσι τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι” Id.3.69.
4. resort to a person as a friend, φ. παρά τινα visit him, Pl.Phd.59d, Euthd.295d, La.181c, etc.; παρ᾽ ἡμᾶς “φ. ὡς παρὰ φίλους” Id.R.328d; “πρὸς τὴν συνουσίαν τινός” Id.Lg.624a; “σφιν ἑκατέρωσε” Id.Grg.523b.
b. resort to a person or place for any purpose, “ἐφοίτων παρὰ τὸν Δηϊόκεα . . δικασόμενοι” Hdt.1.96; “παρά τινα φ. ἐς λόγους” Id.7.103; φ. ἔς τε πολέμους καὶ ἐς ἄγρας, ἔς τε ἀγορὴν καὶ ἐξ ἀγορῆς, Id.1.37; “ἐς τὰ χρηστήρια” Id.6.125; “εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἑκάστης ἡμέρας” Pl.Lg.794b; φ. πρὸς τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, of embassies from the subject states, Th.1.95; φοιτᾶν ἐπὶ τὰς θύρας τινός frequent, wait at a great man's door, Hdt.3.119, X.Cyr.8.1.8, HG.1.6.10; later, “φ. ἐπὶ θύρας” Plu.Aem.10, Luc.DMort.9.2, etc.; “ἐπὶ θύραις” Plu.Cat. Mi.21 (s. v. l.); “ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν οἰκίαν” Lys.3.29, cf. Aeschin.1.58; “εἰς τὸ ἱερόν” IG7.235.2 (Oropus, iv B. C.); also “φ. εἰς συσσίτια” Pl.R. 416e; “ἄκλητος φοιτᾷς ἐπὶ δεῖπνον” Cratin.45 (anap.), cf. Eup.162 (lyr.); “εἰς καπήλου φ.” Plu.2.643c; “εἰς Ἱπποθωντίδ᾽ ἐφοίτα φυλὴν χορεύσων” D.39.23; of a company of actors, “φ. τισι εἰς τὴν πόλιν” Pl.Lg. 817a.: abs., of a suitor, “φοιτῶν ἐναργὴς ταῦρος, ἄλλοτ᾽ αἰόλος δράκων . . ἄλλοτ᾽ ἀνδρείῳ κύτει βούπρῳρος” S.Tr.11.
c. of a dream that visits one frequently, haunts one, “ἐν ὀνείρασι φοιτῶσα” E.Alc.355; “πολλάκις μοι φοιτῶν τὸ αὐτὸ ἐνύπνιον” Pl.Phd.60e.
5. resort to a person as a teacher, “παρά σε ταῦτα μαθησόμενος” Id.Smp.206b; παῖς ὢν ἐφοίτας ἐς τίνος διδασκάλου (sc. οἶκον); Ar.Eq.1235, cf. Pl.Prt.326c, Alc.1.109d; “τῶν διδασκάλων ὅποι ἐφοιτῶμεν” Is.9.28; “εἰς τὰ διδασκαλεῖα φ.” X.Cyr.1.2.6; “εἰς παλαίστραν” Pl.Grg.456d; “πρὸς τὰς τοῦ γραμματιστοῦ θύρας” Id.Erx.398e: later, c. dat., “τοῖς μάγοις” Philostr. VA1.26; “διδασκάλοις” Jul.Or.7.219c: abs., go to school, Ar.Nu.916, 938 (anap.); “ἐδίδασκες γράμματα, ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐφοίτων” D.18.265: οἱ φοιτῶντες the schoolboys, Pl.Lg.804d, Isoc.15.183.
6. of a physician, practise, Hp.Lex4.
II. of things, esp. of objects of commerce, to come in constantly or regularly, be imported, ἐξ ἐσχάτης (sc. Εὐρώπης)“ ὅ τε κασσίτερος ἡμῖν φοιτᾷ καὶ τὸ ἤλεκτρον” Hdt.3.115; κέρεα τὰ ἐς Ἔλληνας φοιτέοντα which are imported into Greece, Id.7.126; σῖτος δέ σφι πολλὸς ἐφοίτα corn came in to them in plenty, ib.23, cf. Lys. 32.15, X.HG1.1.35; come in, of tribute or taxes, “τάλαντον ἀργυρίου Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἡμέρης ἑκάστης ἐφοίτα” Hdt.5.17, cf. 3.90: generally, “ἀκάμας χρόνος . . ἀενάῳ ῥεύματι φ.” E.Fr.594.2 (anap.); “ᾧ μία τις πήρα, μία διπλοΐς, εἷς ἅμ᾽ ἐφοίτασκίπων” travelled, AP7.65 (Antip.); of reports, “λόγος ἐφοίτα” was current, Plu.Fab.21; “τὸ Σερτωρίου κλέος ἐφοίτα πανταχόσε” Id.Sert.23; “ἀρεταὶ πάντῃ φ. διὰ τῆς φήμης” D.S.10.12; of fits of pain, “ἥδε [νόσος] ὀξεῖα φοιτᾷ καὶ ταχεῖ, ἀπέρχεται” S.Ph.808, cf. Hes. Op.103; of the καταμήνια, Arist.HA582b4, GA727b27; of recurrent καθάρσεις, Id.HA583a26; τὰ οὖρα καθαρὰ ἐφοίτα came clear, Hp. Epid.7.115; “ἄνω φοιτᾷ ἡ ὀδύνη” Id.Mul.1.63; of recurrent phenomena, such as rain, snow, hail, Arist.Mete.347b12, Pr.931a38.