τρέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
τρέω
ἔτρεσα
Structure:
τρέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: this Verb is never contracted, except when the contraction is into ei
Sense
- to flee from fear
- (aorist participle, substantive) runaway, coward (compare τρεσᾶς (tresâs), τρεσᾶ (tresâ))
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- "ὁ δ’ ἵλεωσ καὶ πρᾶοσ, οὐ τρέσασ οὐδὲ διαφθείρασ οὔτε χρώματοσ οὐδὲν οὔτε σχήματοσ μάλ’ εὐκόλωσ ἐξέπιεν, ἀποθνῄσκοντα δ’ αὐτὸν ἐμακάριζον οἱ ζῶντεσ, ὡσ οὐδ’ ἐν Αἵδου θείασ ἄνευ μοίρασ ἐσόμενον. (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 2:10)
- "οὐχὶ καὶ Σωκράτει ταύτην προύπιεσ, ὁ δ’ ἵλεωσ καὶ πρᾶοσ, οὐ τρέσασ οὐδὲ διαφθείρασ οὔτε χρώματοσ οὐδὲν οὔτε σχήματοσ μάλ’ εὐκόλωσ ἐξέπιεν; (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 6:6)
- μῶν τρέσασ οὐκ ἀνακαλύψω βλέφαρον, Ἀτρέωσ γεγώσ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees6)
- "οὐχ ὑποστάσ, ἀλλὰ τρέσασ τὸ φίλημα τοῦ καλοῦ καί φοβηθείσ· (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 11 6:3)
- τῶν δὲ φίλων φαμένων ὡσ αὐτὸσ εἰή αἴτιοσ, τρέσασ τὸ τοῦ καλοῦ φίλημα, τοῦ μὴ ἐντὸσ φιλήματοσ ἐλθεῖν, καὶ εἰ μὴ ἀποδειλιάσει, ἥξειν ἐκεῖνον· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 154)
Synonyms
-
to flee from fear
Derived
- διατρέω (to flee all ways)
- παρατρέω (to start aside from fear)
- περιτρέω (to tremble round about, stood trembling round)
- ὑποτρέω (to tremble a little, to shrink back, give ground)
