A.“ἐάαν” Od.8.509: impf. εἴων, as, a, Il.18.448, Od.19.25, Th.1.28, etc.; Ion. and Ep. “ἔων” Hdt.9.2, “ἔα” Il.5.517, 16.731; also ἔασκον or εἴασκον, 2.832, 5.802, etc.: fut. ἐάσω [α_] 18.296, etc.: aor. εἴα_σα （εἴα^σεν is v.l. for εἴα_ς' in 10.299) 24.684, etc.; Ep. “ἔα_σα” 11.437: pf. “εἴα_κα” D.8.37, 43.78, Cerc.17.35:—Pass., fut. ἐάσομαι in pass. sense, E.IA331, Th.1.142: aor. “εἰάθην” Isoc.4.97: pf. Pass. “εἴα_μαι” D.45.22.—Hdt. never uses the augm. in this Verb. [α^ in pres. and impf., α_ in fut. and aor. even in Ion. (so prob. in Anacr.56,57; forms with -ασς- occur as vv.ll. in Hom. and Parm. 8.7). Synizesis occurs in 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 Pass., Κρέοντί γε θρόνους ἐᾶσθαι should be given up, S.OC368.
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 Pass., οὐκ ἐᾶσθαι, c. inf., to be hindered, E. IT1344, 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.OT256; “τὰ παθήματα . . παρεῖσ᾽ ἐάσω” Id.OC363, 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:—Pass., “ἡ δ᾽ οὖν ἐάσθω” S.Tr.329, etc.
