A.“-ήσω” Hp.Acut. (Sp.）13):—miss the mark, fail, c. part., “ἐ. παίοντες” X.Cyr.2.1.16: abs., miss one's aim, S.Ph.95; opp. κατορθοῦν, Isoc.7.72.
2. err, do wrong, abs., A. Pr.1039, etc.; “τοῖς πᾶσι κοινόν ἐστι τοὐξ.” S.Ant.1024, cf. Men.15.1D.; opp. εὖ ποιεῖν, Lys.25.16; “ἔς τινα” Hdt.1.108, Lys.12.20; “εἰς τοὺς οἰκέτας” Isoc.2.5; “εἰς θεούς” A.Pr.945; “περί τινα” Isoc.4.110,9.24; ἔν τινι in a thing, Pl.R.336e; “περὶ τὰ μέγιστα” X.An.5.7.33: c. part., “ἐ. διατρίβων” Id.Cyr.3.3.56: c. acc. cogn., ἐ. τι commit a fault, Hdt. 3.145, S.Ph.1012, etc.
II. Pass., to be mismanaged, to be a failure, “ἡ ἐξαμαρτανομένη πρᾶξις” Pl.Prt.357d; “ἐξημαρτήθη τὰ νοσήματα” X.Eq. 4.2; “πολιτεῖαι ἐξημαρτημέναι” Arist.Pol.1289b9.
III. trans., cause to sin, LXX 3 Ki.15.26,al.
