Citations:πέμπω

Ancient Greek citations of πέμπω (pémpō)

Verb: "to send, dispatch"

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.116:

  Ἕκτωρ δὲ προτὶ ἄστυ δύω κήρυκας ἔπεμπε

  Héktōr dè protì ástu dúō kḗrukas épempe

  And Hector dispatched two heralds to the city.

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.109
• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.310
• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.167
• 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 33–34:

  ἄλλους δ' ὁ μέγας καὶ πολυθρέμμων / Νεῖλος ἔπεμψεν:

  állous d' ho mégas kaì poluthrémmōn / Neîlos épempsen:

  Others the great and many-feeding / Nile dispatched:

• 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 37
• 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 470
• 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 59
• 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 598
• 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 738–739:

  βραδεῖαν ἡμᾶς ἆρ' ὁ τήνδε τὴν ὁδὸν / πέμπων ἔπεμψεν ἢ 'φάνην ἐγὼ βραδύς.

  bradeîan hēmâs âr' ho tḗnde tḕn hodòn / pémpōn épempsen ḕ 'phánēn egṑ bradús.

  Late did he, who dispatched [me] on this journey, / dispatch me, or I appeared late.

• 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 460
• 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1163
• 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 149
• 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 19
• 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 495
• 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.9.25:

  Κῦρος γὰρ ἔπεμπε βίκους οἴνου ἡμιδεεῖς πολλάκις ὁπότε πάνυ ἡδὺν λάβοι, λέγων (...)

  Kûros gàr épempe bíkous oínou hēmideeîs pollákis hopóte pánu hēdùn láboi, légōn (...)

  For Cyrus often send half-full jars of wine by dispatch, whenever he would get hold of a very nice [wine], adding the message (...)

• 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.15
• 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.48

Verb: "to conduct, escort"

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.389-390:

  τὴν μὲν γὰρ σὺν νηῒ θοῇ ἑλίκωπες Ἀχαιοὶ
  ἐς Χρύσην πέμπουσιν, ἄγουσι δὲ δῶρα ἄνακτι·

  tḕn mèn gàr sùn nēï̀ thoêi helíkōpes Akhaioì
  es Khrúsēn pémpousin, ágousi dè dôra ánakti;

  Her, you see, the quick-glancing Achaeans in their swift ship
  are escorting to Chryse, and they are bringing gifts for the lord.

• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.556
• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.626
• 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.336
• 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 12-13:

  πέμπουσι δ᾽ αὐτὸν καὶ σεβίζουσιν μέγα / κελευθοποιοὶ παῖδες Ἡφαίστου

  Him they escort - and greatly revere - / the roadbuilding children of Hephaestus.

• 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 132
• 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 136
• 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 219