Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, εἰσοράω

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A.look into, look upon, behold, common in Poets, Od.4.142,al., Sapph.Supp.13.3, etc., but rare in Prose (as X.Cyr.5.1.16, Pl.Grg.526c); “ἐσορᾶν καλός” Pi.O.8.19; “ἐλεινὸς εἰσορᾶν” A.Pr.248; “ἐς. τὴν νέα” Hdt.8.92:—Med. in same sense, freq. in Hom., “εἰσοράασθε ἵππους” Il.23.495 : mostly in inf., οὗ..ὀξύτατον.. φάος εἰσοράασθαι whose eye is quickest to discern, 14.345; ὥς τε.. ἀθάνατος ἰνδάλλεται εἰσοράασθαι he is like an immortal to behold, Od.3.246; “μείζονες εἰσοράασθαι” 10.396, cf. 24.252 : aor. εἰσειδόμην, imper. “ἐσίδεσθ᾽” A.Pr.141 (anap.); εἰσιδόμαν ib.427 (lyr.):—Pass., “ὅσσον.. ἠελίοιο μεσσηγὺς δύσιές τε καὶ ἀντολαὶ εἰσορόωνται” A.R.1.85.

b. c. part., “εἰσορῶ τινὰ στείχοντα” E.Hipp.51; “πόλιν..μοι ξυνοῦσαν εὔνουν” S.OC772: parenthetic, ὡς ἕρποντος （εἰσορᾶς） ἐμοῦ since I (thou seest) am coming, Id.Tr.394 (s.v.l.).

2. look upon with admiration, “πάντες δὲ θεοὺς ὣς εἰσορόωσι” Il.12.312; “μιν..θεὸν ὣς εἰσορόωντες” Od. 7.71; simply, “σε μᾶλλον Ἀχαιοὶ εἰσορόωσιν..” 20.166: hence, pay regard to, respect, “πλοῦτον ἢ εὐγένειαν” E.El.1097: with a Prep., “ἐσορῶντες ἐς τὴν μαντικήν” Hdt.4.68: generally, look at or gaze upon steadily, A.Pers.III (lyr.), E.Med.264.

3. look on with the mind's eye, perceive, οὐκ εἰσορᾷς; S.El.997, cf.611; “εἰ.ὡς..” Id.Ph.501.

4. of angry gods, visit, “θεοὶ γὰρ εὖ μὲν ὀψὲ δ᾽ εἰσορῶσι” Id.OC1536, cf. 1370.

5. folld. by μή, take care lest.., Id.El.584.

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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- Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 427
- Euripides, Electra, 1097
- Euripides, Hippolytus, 51
- Euripides, Medea, 264
- Herodotus, Histories, 4.68
- Herodotus, Histories, 8.92
- Homer, Iliad, 12.312
- Homer, Iliad, 14.345
- Homer, Iliad, 23.495
- Homer, Odyssey, 10.396
- Homer, Odyssey, 20.166
- Homer, Odyssey, 24.252
- Homer, Odyssey, 3.246
- Homer, Odyssey, 4.142
- Homer, Odyssey, 7.71
- Plato, Gorgias, 526c
- Sophocles, Electra, 611
- Sophocles, Electra, 997
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- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1370
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1536
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 772
- Sophocles, Philoctetes, 501
- Sophocles, Trachiniae, 394
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.1.16
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.85

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