A.“εὔνησα” Od.4.440:—Pass., aor. 1 εὐνήθην v. infr., etc.: pf. “εὔνημαι” AP7.397 (Eryc.): (εὐνή):—poet. Verb, = εὐνάζω, rare in Trag.:
2. lay asleep, lull to sleep, “φρουρὸν ὄφιν” A. R.4.87: metaph., “τῆς δ᾽ εὔνησε γόον” Od. 4.758; κάματον, ἐλπίδας, χόλον, AP10.12, 4.3b.41 (Agath.), Nonn.D. 13.276:—Pass., make one's couch, prob. in S.Aj.604 (lyr.); lie asleep, esp. of death, “εὐνήθης ὕπνον ὀφειλόμενον” AP7.78 (Dionys. Cyz.), cf. 397 (Eryc.); “πόλλ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσι θυμὸς εὐνηθεὶς ὁρᾷ” S.Fr.661; of a dog, to lie kennelled, Id.OC1571 (lyr.):—Hom. only in aor. Pass., of the winds, “παύσασθαι δ᾽ ἐκέλευσε καὶ εὐνηθῆναι” Od.5.384; elsewh. of sexual intercourse, 10.296, al.; φιλότητι or ἐν φιλότητι εὐνηθέντε, Il. 3.441, 14.314, cf. 331, al.: c. dat. pers., to be bedded with . . , θεὰ βροτῷ εὐνηθεῖσα, γυνὴ θεῷ εὐνηθεῖσα, 2.821, 16.176; “παρ᾽ ἀνδράσιν εὐνηθεῖσαι” Hes.Th.967.
II. Med., stupefy with narcotics, Aret.CA2.5.