τρέω?
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration: treō
Principal Part:
τρέω
ἔτρεσα
Structure:
τρέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: this Verb is never contracted, except when the contraction is into ει
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.
- μὴ τρέσῃς ἐμὴν χέρα. (Euripides, episode6)
- οἱο῀ν μέντοι τῇ περὶ τῶν τρεσάντων ἀπορίᾳ προσήγαγεν ὁ Ἀγησίλαος ἰάμα μετὰ τὴν ἐν Λεύκτροις ἀτυχίαν, κελεύσας τοὺς νόμους ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν καθεύδειν, οὐ γέγονεν ἄλλο σόφισμα πολιτικόν, οὐδ ἔχομέν τι τοῦ Πομπηϊού παραπλήσιον, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον οὐδ οἷς αὐτὸς ἐτίθει νόμοις ᾤετο δεῖν ἐμμένειν, τὸ δύνασθαι μέγα τοῖς φίλοις ἐνδεικνύμενος, ὁ δὲ εἰς ἀνάγκην καταστὰς τοῦ λῦσαι τοὺς νόμους ἐπὶ τῷ σῶσαι τοὺς πολίτας, ἐξεῦρε τρόπον ᾧ μήτε ἐκείνους βλάψουσι μήτε ὅπως οὐ βλάψωσι λυθήσονται. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey, chapter 2 2:1)
- ζῇ, μὴ τρέσῃς τόδ, ὥς <ς> ἀπαλλάξω φόβου. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode10)
- μηδὲν τρέσῃς τάσδ: (Euripides, episode, anapests 3:30)
- καιόμεναί τε δεταί, τάς τε τρεῖ ἐσσύμενός περ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce 1:3)
- νῦν δὲ τρέω μὴ τελέσῃ καμψίπους Ἐρινύς. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 52)
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)
