Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• σίω ‎(síō) Poetic

Verb

σείω • ‎(seíō)

1. (transitive) I shake
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 385
   • 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Collected Works 22
   • Anacr. 49
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 185
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 75
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Ion 1204
   • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 151
   • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 1191
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.345
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.135
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.133
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.486
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 291
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 713
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 3.4
   1. (of earthquakes)
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 511
      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1752
      • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1142
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.129
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.52
      • X, HG 4.7.4
   2. (figuratively) I disturb, agitate
      • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 12
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prorrhetics 1.143
      • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.1.11
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.272
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 163
   3. (Attic) I blackmail
      • Alciphron, Collected Works 3.70
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Choreutes 43
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 840
      • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 639
      • 5th century BC, Telecleides 2
2. (passive, intransitive) I shake
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.98
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.59
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 8.94
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 584
   1. I move to and fro
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1276
      • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1312
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 46
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.107
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 299
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 7.58
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.805
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.285
      • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On Dizziness 8
3. (middle voice) I shake
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1367
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 13.13
   1. I shake myself
      • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 1
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.199

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References

• σείω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σείω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «σείω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4579”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press