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.
- μὴ τρέσῃσ ἐμὴν χέρα. (Euripides, episode6)
- οἱο͂ν 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)
