Ancient Greek

Verb

ἧμαι • ‎(hêmai)

1. I sit, am seated; I lie, am situated
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.498

     εὗρεν δ᾽ εὐρύοπα Κρονίδην ἄτερ ἥμενον ἄλλων

     There she found the far-seeing son of Cronos sitting apart from the rest

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.509

     τὴν δ᾽ ἑτέρην πόλιν ἀμφὶ δύω στρατοὶ ἥατο λαῶν τεύχεσι λαμπόμενοι

     About the other city there lay encamped two hosts in gleaming armour

   1. I lie hid

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References

• ἧμαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἧμαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἧμαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἧμαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἧμαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἧμαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 789