ἔβασον ἔασον

ἐάω, [var] contr. [full] ἐῶ Il.8.428, etc.; [dialect] Ep. [full] εἰῶ 4.55; [dialect] Ep.2 and [ per.] 3sg. ἐάᾳς, ἐάᾳ, Od.12.137, Il.8.414; inf.

A

ἐάαν Od.8.509

: [tense] impf. εἴων, as, a, Il.18.448, Od.19.25, Th.1.28, etc.; [dialect] Ion. and [dialect] Ep.

ἔων Hdt.9.2

,

ἔα Il.5.517

, 16.731; also ἔασκον or εἴασκον, 2.832, 5.802, etc.: [tense] fut. ἐάσω [ᾱ] 18.296, etc.: [tense] aor. εἴᾱσα ( εἴᾰσεν is v.l. for εἴᾱς ' in 10.299) 24.684, etc.; [dialect] Ep.

ἔᾱσα 11.437

: [tense] pf.

εἴᾱκα D.8.37

, 43.78, Cerc.17.35:—[voice] Pass., [tense] fut. ἐάσομαι in pass. sense, E.IA 331, Th.1.142: [tense] aor.

εἰάθην Isoc.4.97

: [tense] pf. [voice] Pass.

εἴᾱμαι D.45.22

.—Hdt. never uses the augm. in this Verb. [[pron. full] ᾰ in [tense] pres. and [tense] impf., [pron. full] ᾱ in [tense] fut. and [tense] aor. even in [dialect] Ion. (so prob. in Anacr.56,57; forms with - ασς- occur as vv.ll. in Hom. and Parm. 8.7). Synizesis occurs in [ per.] 3sg.

ἐᾷ Il.5.256

, in 1 subj.

ἐῶμεν 10.344

, and prob. in

ἐάσουσιν Od.21.233

; also in Trag., in imper.

ἔα S.OT 1451

, Ant.95, Ar.Nu. 932; ind.

ἐῶ Id.Lys. 734

: Hsch. has the form ἦσεν· εἴασεν, cf. ἦσαι· παῦσαι]:—suffer, permit, c. acc. pers. et inf., τούσδε δ' ἔα φθινύθειν leave them alone to perish, Il.2.346;

αἴ κεν ἐᾷ με.. ζώειν Od.13.359

, etc.;

ἐᾶν οἰκεῖν Th.3.48

, cf. IG12.1; ἐ. τοὺς Ἕλληνας αὐτονόμους ib.2.17.9;

ἐᾶν ἄκλαυτον, ἄταφον S.Ant.29

, cf. Tr. 1083;

ἐᾶν τί τινι Plu.2.233d

:—so in [voice] Pass., Κρέοντί γε θρόνους ἐᾶσθαι should be given up, S.OC 368.

b concede, allow in argument, c. acc. et inf., Pl.Prm. 135b.

2 with neg., οὐκ ἐᾶν not to suffer: hence, forbid, prevent,

τρεῖν μ' οὐκ ἐᾷ Παλλὰς Ἀθήνη Il.5.256

;

εἴπερ γὰρ φθονέω τε καὶ οὐκ εἰῶ διαπέρσαι 4.55

; esp. of the law, Aeschin.3.21;

δμωὰς δ' οὐκ εἴας προβλωσκέμεν Od.19.25

, etc.: used elliptically with ἀλλά following,

οὐκ ἐῶν φεύγειν, ἀλλὰ [κελεύων] μένοντας ἐπικρατέειν Hdt.7.104

, cf.Th.2.21; also, persuade or advise not to do.., Id.1.133: an inf. may freq. be supplied, οὐκ ἐάσει σε τοῦτο will not allow thee [to do] this, S.Ant. 538; κἂν μηδεὶς ἐᾷ even if all men forbid, Id.Aj. 1184, cf. Ph. 444:—so in [voice] Pass., οὐκ ἐᾶσθαι, c. inf., to be hindered, E. IT 1344, Th.1.142, D.2.16.

II let alone, let be, c. acc.,

ἔα χόλον Il.9.260

; μνηστήρων μὲν ἔα βουλήν heed not the suitors' plan, Od. 2.281; ἐπεί με πρῶτον ἐάσας as soon as thou hast dismissed me, Il. 24.557, cf. 569, 684; ἤ κέν μιν ἐρύσσεαι, ἦ κεν ἐάσῃς or wilt leave him alone, 20.311, cf. Hdt.6.108, etc.;

ἐάσωμεν ἕκηλον αὐτόν S.Ph. 825

; [

πρᾶγμα] ἀκάθαρτον ἐᾶν Id.OT 256

;

τὰ παθήματα.. παρεῖσ' ἐάσω Id.OC 363

, cf. Th.2.36;

ἐᾶν φιλοσοφίαν Pl.Grg. 484c

: c. inf., ἐπὶ Σκύθας ἰέναι.. ἔασον let it alone, Hdt.3.134; κλέψαι μὲν ἐάσομεν Ἕκτορα we will have done with stealing Hector, Il.24.71;

ἐᾶν περί τινος Pl.Prt. 347c

, etc.;

ἐῶ γὰρ εἰ φίλον D.21.122

: abs., ἀλλ' ἄγε δὴ καὶ ἔασον have done, let be, Il.21.221, cf. A.Pr. 334;

οὐ χρὴ μάχεσθαι πρὸς τὸ θεῖον, ἀλλ' ἐᾶν E.Fr.491.5

; θεὸς τὸ μὲν δώσει, τὸ δ' ἐάσει he will give one thing, the other he will let alone, Od.14.444:—[voice] Pass.,

ἡ δ' οὖν ἐάσθω S.Tr. 329

, etc.

2 for ἐᾶν χαίρειν, v. χαίρω sub fin. ( ἐϝάω, cf. ἔβασον· ἔασον, and εὔα· ἔα, Hsch. who also has ἔησον· ἔασον.)

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `let (go), permit, let in quiet'.

Other forms: Ipf. εἴων, aor. ἐᾶσαι (ind. εἴασα), fut. ἐάσω (Il.; orig. ἐᾰ́σ(σ)αι, resp. ἐᾰ́σ(σ)ω?, s. below), perf. etc. εἴᾱκα, εἴαμαι, εἰάθην (D., Isoc.)

Compounds: rarely παρ-, εἰσεάω.

Derivatives: None.

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: The glosses ἔβασον ἔασον. Συρακόσιοι H., EM, εὔα... ἔα H. assure for ἐάω a digamma; the diphthongal augment points to a consonantal beginning, probably σ-; but the absence of aspiration is unexplained (cf. Lejeune Traité de phonétique 78 n. 2). So a disyllabic root ( σ)εϜᾰ- like ἐλᾰ-, τελᾰ- etc., with in the aorist *(σ)εϜᾰ́-σαι \> ἐᾰ́σαι, or with analogical - σσ- (like ἐλάσ(σ)αι a. o.; after τελέσ-(σ)αι a. o.) ἐᾰ́σσαι, fut. ἐᾰ́σ(σ)ω, forms that can be found in Hom. (ἐᾰ́σουσιν φ 233, εἴᾰσεν Κ 299 as v. l.); so one could read ἐάσσαι for ἐᾶσαι (Δ 42) etc. like ἐάσσω (v. l.) in Parm. 8, 7. Also ἐάσομεν, ἔασον in Hdt. are understandable (cf. ἔησον ἔασον H.). The length in ἐᾶσαι etc. would then be from the denominatives in - άω. So unique ἔᾰ (Ε 256) would be 3. sing. of an athematic Aeolic ἔᾰ-μι. - Schwyzer 682 and 752, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 356. A good connection for ἐάω has not been found. Connection as IE seuH-; Skt. savi- in savi-tár- `Antreiber etc.' with pres. suváti `antreiben' does not fit well semantically. Cf. on εἱαμένη.

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