Ancient Greek

Verb

πορεύω • ‎(poreúō)

1. (active) to cause to go, carry, convey
   • Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.125
   • Pindar, Pythian Ode 11.32
   • Sophocles, Philoctetes 516
   • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1476
   • Euripides, The Trojan Women 1086
   • Euripides, Hecuba 447
   • Euripides, Medea 181
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.131
   • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 559
   • Euripides, Alcestis 444
   1. (of things) to bring, carry, furnish, bestow, set in motion
      • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1602
      • Euripides, The Phoenician Women 985
      • Plato, Laws 893.D
2. (in middle or passive) to be driven or carried
   • Sophocles, Ajax 1254
   • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 845
   1. to go, walk, march
      • Plato, Symposium 190.D
      • Plato, The Statesman 266.C
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.12
      • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.3.13
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 5.3.1
      • Herodotus, Histories 8.107
      • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.29
      • Sophocles, Women of Trachis 392
      • Herodotus, Histories 6.95
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.10
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.11
      • Euripides, Ion 1238
      • Xenophon, Anabasis 2.2.12
      • Euripides, Electra 965
      • Euripides, Orestes 1068
   2. to walk, i.e. to live
      • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 884
   3. (figuratively)
      • Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.24
      • Plato, Laws 812.A
      • Xenophon, Memorabilia 4.6.15

Inflection

References

• πορεύω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πορεύω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πορεύω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πορεύω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter