A.“πυνθανόμην” 13.256: fut. “πεύσομαι” Il.18.19, etc., Dor. “πευσοῦμ α ι ” Theoc.3.51 (so cod. Med. in A.Pr.988): aor. “ἐπ υ ^θόμην” Il.5. 702, etc., Ep. and Lyr. “πυθόμην” Od.4.732, B.15.26; imper. π υ θ ο ῦ, Ion. “π υ θ ε ῦ” Hdt.3.68; Ep. opt. “πεπύθοιτο” Il.6.50, al. (subj. πεπύθωνται is f.l. for γ ε πύθωνται, 7.195); 3pl. “πυθοίατο” S.OC921: pf. “πέπυσμαι” Od.11.505, etc.; 2sg. “πέπυ^σ α ι ” Pl.Prt.310b, Ep. “πέπυσσαι” Od.11.494; inf. “πεπύσθαι” Th.7.67, etc.; part. “πεπυσμένος” Pl.Smp.179e: plpf. “ἐπεπύσμην” Ar.Pax615, Av.470; 3sg. “ἐπέπυστο” Il.13.674, Ep. πέπυστο ib.521; 3dual “πεπύσθην” 17.377:—learn, whether by hearsay or by inquiry (“ἐξιστορήσαντες τ ὰ ἐβούλοντο πυθέσθαι” Hdt.7.195): constr.
1. π . τί τινος learn something from a person, Il.17.408, Od.10.537, A.Ag.599, Ar.Ra.1417, etc.; also “π . τ ι ἀπό τινος” A.Ch. 737; “ἐξ ἄλ λ ω ν ” S.OC1266; “ἐκ τ ο ῦ παρατυχόντος” Th.1.22; freq. παρά τινος, Hdt.2.91, etc.; π α ρ ᾽ ἄλ λ ω ν (v.l. ἄλ λ ω ν ) X.Cyr.4.1.3.
2. c. acc. rei only, hear or learn a thing, Od.2.411, A.Ch.765, Antipho 5.25, etc.: abs., “α ἰσχρὸν τόδε γ ᾽ ἐσ τ ὶ κ α ὶ ἐσσομένοισι πυθέσθαι” Il.2.119, cf. Pi.P.7.7, etc.; “ὡς ἐγ ὼ πυνθάνομαι” Hdt.1.22, etc.
3. c. gen. objecti, hear or inquire concerning, πυθέσθαι πατρός, ἀγγελιάων, μάχης, Od.1.281, 2.256, Il.15.224, cf. S.El.35, Pl.Lg.635b.
4. π . τινά τινος inquire about one person of or from another, “τ ὸν ἄνδρα τ ῶν ὁδοιπόρων” Ar.Ach.204; so “π . περί τινος” Hdt.2.75; “π ᾶσ α ν πυθέσθαι τ ῶν δ ᾽ ἀλήθειαν πέρι” S.Tr.91: c. acc. pers. only, inquire about a person, Ar.Th.619.
5. c. part., πυθόμην ὁδ ὸν ὁρμαίνοντα that he was starting, Od.4.732, cf. Hdt.9.58, S.Aj.692; “π . τ ὸ Πλημμύριον ἑαλωκός” Th.7.31, cf. X.An.1.7.16, etc.; ο ὔ π ω . . πεπύσθην Πατρόκλοιο θανόντος they had not yet heard of his being dead, Il.17.377, cf. 427, 19.322, A.Ch.763; “ὡς ἐπύθοντο τ ῆς Πύλου κατειλημμένης” Th.4.6: with acc. rei added, “ε ἰ σ φ ῶϊν τάδε πάντα πυθοίατο μαρναμένοιιν” Il.1.257.
7. folld. by an interrog. clause, “ὡς πυθώμεθα ὅπ ο υ π ο τ ᾽ ἐσμέν” S.OC11; α ὐτ ο ῦ π . τί π ο τ ε ν ο ε ῖ inquire or learn from him what . ., Pl.La.196c, cf. X.An.6.3.25, Plb.3.107.6; “π ., ὅτ ε ῳ . . συνοικέει” Hdt.3.68; π . ε ἰ . . inquire whether . ., S.OC993, IG42(1).121.18 (Epid., iv B.C.); “τ ο ῦ ξένου ἡδέως ἂν π ., τί τ α ῦθ ᾽ ἡγ ο ῦν τ ο ” Pl.Sph.216d; π . τ ι ν ῶν , ὅτ ι . . X.An.4.6.17; π ., ὅπως ἂν κάλλιστα πορευθείη ib.3.1.7, cf. Cyr.1.4.7.
II. Act., aor. 1 part. fem. “πεύσασα” having learned, PMasp.5.7 (vi A.D.).
2. v. πεύθω.