A.“-άσομαι” Pl. Euthphr.3e, D.21.213, later “-άσω” Plb.3.5.8, D.S.1.58, etc.: aor. “ἐσπούδασα” E.HF507, Pl.Phd.114e: pf. “ἐσπούδακα” Ar.V.694, Pl.Phdr. 236b, etc.:—Med., fut. v. supr.:—Pass., fut. “σπουδασθήσομαι” Ael. NA4.13: aor. “ἐσπουδάσθην” Str.17.3.15, Plu.Per.24: pf. “ἐσπούδασμαι” Pl.Ly.219e (v. infr.):
I. intr.,
I. to be busy, eager to do a thing, c. inf., S.OC1143, E.Hec.817, Pl.Euthd.293a, etc.; σπούδασον ἐλθεῖν . . ταχέως make haste . . , 2 Ep.Ti.4.9; ὅτ᾽ ἐσπούδαζες ἄρχειν wast eager to rule, E.IA337 (troch.): c. part., “ἐσπ. διδάσκων” X.Oec.9.1: freq. ς. περί τινος or τι, Id.Mem.1.3.8, Pl.R.330c, etc.; “ὑπέρ τινος” D.59.77; “εἰς τὰ σά” Id.21.195; “πρός τι” Id.22.76; “ἐπί τισι” X.Mem.1.3.11, cf. D.21.2: c. dat., “ς. γάμῳ” Aristaenet.2.3; ς. ὅπως . . endeavour that . . , D.43.12, SIG312.10 (Samos, iv B.C.): abs., ἐσπουδακυῖα in haste, hurriedly, Ar.Th.572; ἐσπουδακώς eagerly, Men.562.
b. c. acc. et inf., “σπουδάσαντες τοῦτ᾽ αὐτοῖς παραγενέσθαι” Pl.Alc.2.141d, cf. 2 Ep.Pet.1.15, BGU1080.14 (iii A.D.), etc.
2. of persons, ς. πρός τινα pay him serious attention, Pl.Grg.510c, etc.; “εἴς τινα” AP9.422 (Apollonid.); ς. περί τινα to be anxious for his success, Isoc.1.10, X.Cyr.5.4.13, etc. (distd. fr. πρός τινα by Luc.Sol.10); “περί τινος” X.Lac.4.1; “ὑπὲρ τῶν οἰκετῶν” Aeschin.1.17; “ὑπέρ τινος” D.21.213, etc.; ς. τινί be a partisan or backer of, Plu.Art.21, Arr.Epict.1.11.27, PGiss.71.6 (ii A.D.); “ἀπό τινος” Philostr.VS2.27.6.
3. to be serious or earnest, Ar.Ra.813; opp. σκώπτειν καὶ κωμῳδεῖν, Id.Pl.557; freq. in Pl., σπουδάζει ταῦτα ἢ παίζει; Grg.481b, etc.; ἐσπούδακας, ὅτι ἐπελαβόμην ἐρεσχηλῶν σε; did you take it seriously, that I . .? Phdr. 236b; “σπουδάζοντα τοῖς πράγμασι τοῖς ὀνόμασι παίζειν” D.H.Lys.14; ἐσπουδάκατον they have worked hard, Ar.V.694; μάλα ἐσπουδακότι τῷ προσώπῳ with a very grave face, X.Smp.2.17.
4. study, Philostr. VS1.7.2; lecture, teach, ib.1.21.5.
II. trans.,
1. c. acc. rei, do anything hastily or earnestly, be earnest about, “τὸ αὑτοῦ” E.HF 507; “τὰς περὶ τὸ μανθάνειν ἡδονάς” Pl.Phd.114e, etc.; opp. παρέργοις χρῆσθαι, Id.Euthd.273d, cf. Ti.21c; “τὰ ἑαυτοῦ ἡδέα” X.Smp.8.17; “ς. τοῦτο, ὅπως . . ” Id.Eq.11.10:—Pass., σπουδάζεταί τι is zealously pursued, πᾶν ὅ τι ς. E.Supp.761; “ς. ἀγών” X.Lac.10.3; χρήματα μετὰ πολλῆς δαπάνης ς. Pl.R.485e; ἡ κωμῳδία διὰ τὸ μὴ σπουδάζεσθαι . . ἔλαθεν because it was not taken up seriously, Arist.Po.1449b1; οὐ πάνυ σπουδάζεται ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν is not much valued, Luc.Cont.11: esp. freq. in pf. part., “πᾶσα ἡ τοιαύτη σπουδὴ οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἐστὶν ἐσπουδασμένη” Pl.Ly.219e; προοίμια θαυμαστῶς ἐσπουδασμένα elaborately worked up, Id.Lg.722e, cf. 659e; so τὰ μάλιστα ἐσπ. σῖτα καὶ ποτά the choicest, X.Cyr.4.2.38; τὰ ἐσπ., of writing tablets, the best quality, Thphr.HP 3.9.7 (also κλίνας καὶ δίφρους καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ σπουδαζόμενα ib.5.3.2); εἰ ταῦτ᾽ ἐσπουδασμένα ἐν γράμμασιν ἐτέθη if those pains were seriously bestowed on letters, Pl.Ep.344c; “αἱ ἐσπουδασμέναι παιδιαί” Arist.Rh. 1371a3, cf. Pol.1336a34.
2. Pass., of persons, to be treated with respect, opp. καταφρονεῖσθαι, Id.Rh.1380a26; to be courted, Str.17.3.15, Plu.Them.5, D.L.5.75; of women, Plu.Cim.4, Art.26.
