A.“πέμπεσκε” Hdt.7.106 : fut. “πέμψω” Od.5.167, etc.; Dor. “πεμψῶ” Theoc.5.141; Ep.inf. “πεμψέμεναι” Od.10.484: aor. ἔπεμψα, Ep. “πέμψα” Il.1.442, 21.43, etc.: pf. “πέπομφα” Th.7.12, X.Cyr.6.2.10, D.4.48 : plpf. ἐπεμπόμφει, Ion. -εε, X.Cyr.6.2.9, Hdt.1.85 :—Med. (not in early Prose, exc. in compds. ἀπο-, μετα-, προ-πέμπομαι), fut. πέμψομαι only f.l. in E. Or.111 : aor. “ἐπεμψάμην” Id.Hec.977 :—Pass., fut. “πεμφθήσομαι” Str. 1.1.4, Plu.Demetr.27 : aor. “ἐπέμφθην” Pi.N.3.59, S.El. 1163, etc.: 3sg.pf. “πέπεμπται” A.Th.473, (προ-) Th.7.77; part. “πεπεμμένος” D.23.159, Luc. Alex.32, D.C.50.13: plpf. “ἐπέπεμπτο” Id.36.18, (προὐπ-) Th.8.79 (cj.) :—send, freq. of persons, as messengers, spies, etc., Il.3.116, A.Th.37, Hdt.7.15, etc.; of troops, A.Pers.34 (anap.), Th.470 : c. dupl. acc., ὁδὸν π. τινά send one on a journey, S.Aj.739, cf.El.1163 (Pass.); also of things, “πέμψω δέ τοι οὖρον ὄπισθεν” Od.5.167, etc.; π. γράμματα, ἐπιστολήν, Pl.Ep.310d, 323b; in letters, in the epistolary aorist, Th.1.129, X. An.1.9.25, LXX2 Es.4.14; π. κακόν τινι send one evil, Il.15.109; “π. παραβᾶσιν Ἐρινύν” A.Ag.59 (anap.); ποινάς, ζημίαν, Id.Eu.203 (dub.), E.Fr.506; “ψόφον π. ἔσω” Id.IT 1308; ὕπνον, ὀνείρατα, S.Ph.19, El.460; freq. of omens, π.οἰωνόν, τέρατα, Il.24.310, X.Mem. 1.4.15, cf. Smp. 4.48; “μαντείας” S.OT 149; also “ἱκεσίους π. λιτάς” Id.Ph.495 ; π. ἀρωγάς, ἀλκάν, A.Eu.598, S. OT189(lyr.) :—Constr.:
1. c. acc. of place to which, π. τινὰ Θήβας, ἀγρούς, Id.OC 1770 (anap.), OT761 : also c. dat., “Ἀΐδᾳ” E.IT 159 (anap.): but usu. with Preps., ἐς Τροίην, φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν, etc., Il.6.207, Od.5.37, etc.; “π. εἰς Ἀΐδαο” Il.21.48 ; “δόμον Ἄϊδος εἴσω” Od.9.524; π. εἰς διδασκάλων send to school, Pl.Prt.325d (so πέμπειν alone, Ar.Fr.216); π. ἐπ᾽ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης over. . , Od.4.560, etc. ; π.ἐπὶ Θρῃκῶν ἵππους to them, Il.10.464; but πέμπειν ἐπί τι send for a purpose, “ἐπ᾽ ὕδωρ” Hdt.5.12 ; “ἐπὶκατασκοπήν” X. Cyr.6.2.9 (π. εἰς κ. S.Ph.45); “π. ἀρωγὴν ἐπὶ νίκην” A.Ch. 477 codd. (anap.); π. ἐπί τινι send to him, Il.2.6; against. . , A.Ag. 61 (anap.), etc.; for a purpose, “ἐπὶ πολέμῳ” X. HG4.8.17; περί τινος about something, Th.1.91, X.Cyr.6.2.10; ὑπέρ τινος Epist. Philipp. ap.D.12.12; παρά or πρός τινα to some one, Th.2.81, X.An.5.2.6; “ὥς τινα” Th.8.50.
2. folld. by Advbs., οἴκαδε, οἶκόνδε, Od.19.281, 24.418; “ὅνδε δόμονδε” Il.16.445; “θύραζε” Od.9.461; “πόλεμόνδε” Il. 18.452, etc.; ἕταρον γὰρ . . πέμπ᾽ Ἄϊδόσδε was conducting or convoying Patroclus to Hades, 23.137.
3. folld. by inf. of purpose, “τὴν . . ἅρμασι π. νέεσθαι” Od.4.8 ; “ἕπεσθαι” Il.16.575 ; “ἰέναι” Od.14.396 ; “ἱκανέμεν” 4.29 ; “ἄγειν” 24.419; “φέρειν” Il.16.454 ; φέρεσθαι ib.681 ; “μήτηρ με πέμπει πατρὶ τυμβεῦσαι χοάς” S.El.406 ; send word, “πέμπεις . . σῇ δάμαρτι, παῖδα σὴν δεῦρ᾽ ἀποστέλλειν” E.IA360 ; πέμπουσιν οἱ ἔφοροι . . στρατεύεσθαι sent him orders to march, X.HG3.1.7 : also c. part., “κήρυκας π. ἀγγέλλοντας” IG 12.76.22 : the place from which is expressed by ἀπό or ἐκ, Il.16.447, Od.11.635, etc.
4. abs., “ἐπέμψαμεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς περὶ ἀποστάσεως” Th.3.13 ; “πέμπει κελεύων” Th.1.91, 2.81; “ἐκέλευε . . πέμπων” X. An.2.3.1 ; “ἔπεμπε πρὸς Κῦρον δεόμενος” Id.Cyr.1.5.4 ; “ἔπεμπον ἐρωτῶντες” Id.An.6.6.4, etc.
5. send forward, nominate a person for a post, ὀνόματα Wilcken Chr.28.20 (ii A.D.) :—Pass., ib.392.7 (ii A.D.).
II. send forth or away, dismiss, send home, “τὸν ξεῖνον” Od.7.227, al.: less freq. in Il., as 24.780; χρὴ ξεῖνον παρεόντα φιλεῖν, ἐθέλοντα δὲ πέμπειν 'welcome the coming, speed the parting guest', Od.15.74 ; “ὑπέδεκτο καὶ πέμπε” 23.315 ; of the father who sends off his daughter to go to her husband, c. dat., 4.5 ; “π. τινὰ ἄποικον” S.OT1518, etc.
2. of missiles, discharge, shoot, “πέτρας” Hes. Th.716 : metaph., “ὄμματος . . τόξευμα” A. Supp. 1005 : abs., “οἱ πολλάκις πέμποντες ἔστιν ὅτε τυγχάνουσι τοῦ σκοποῦ” Eun. VS p.495 B.
III. conduct, escort, Il.1.390, Od.14.336, S.Tr. 571, etc.; freq. of Hermes and other gods, Od.11.626, A. Eu. 12, Supp. 219; ὁ πέμπων abs., of Hermes, S. Ph. 133 (cf.πομπός, πομπαῖος, etc.); of a ship, convey, carry, Od.8.556, cf. A.Supp. 136(lyr.); “κραιπνοφόροι δέ μ᾽ ἔπεμψαν αὖραι” Id.Pr.132(lyr.), cf. Pi.P.4.203 (Pass.).
2. πομπὴν π. conduct, or take part in, a procession, Hdt.5.56, Ar. Ec.757, Th.6.56, Lys. 13.80, D.4.26, etc.; π. χορούς move in dancing procession, E.El.434(lyr.); Παναθήναια π. Men. 494, Philostr. VA4.22 :—Pass., φαλλὸς Διονύσῳ πεμπόμενος carried in procession in his honour, Hdt.2.49, cf. Plu.Aem. 32, Demetr.12; “τῆς πομπῆς ὅπως ἂν ὡς κάλλισταπεμφθῇ” IG12.84.27; “χορὸς ὁ εἰς Δῆλον πεμπόμενος” X. Mem.3.3.12.
IV. send as a present, εἵματα, σῖτον, Od. 16.83,4.623; π. δῶρα, σκῦλα, ξένια, Hdt.7.106 (Act. and Pass.), S.Ph. 1429, X.Cyr.3.1.42.
V. send up, produce, “ὅσα πέμπει βιόδωρος αἶα” S.Ph. 1162 (lyr.).
B. Med., πέμπεσθαί τινα send for one, S.OC602, ubiv. Sch.; τί χρῆμ᾽ ἐπέμψω τὸν ἐμὸν ἐκ δόμων πόδα; E.Hec.977.
II. send in one's own service or cause to be sent, S.OT556, Luc. Tox.14.