A.“ἡσσηθήσομαι” E.Hipp. 727, 976, “ἡττ-” Lys.20.32, X.Cyr.3.3.42: fut. Med. ἡττήσομαι in pass. sense, Lys.28.9, X.An.2.3.23: aor. “ἡσσήθην” E.Andr.917, etc.: pf. “ἥσσημαι” S.Aj.1242, E.Alc.697: plpf. “ἥττητο” D.19.160: Ion. ἑσσόομαι , part. “ἑσσούμενος” Hdt.1.82: impf. ἑσσοῦτο (without augm.) Id.7.166, 8.75: aor. “ἑσσώθην” Id.2.169, etc.: pf. “ἕσσωμαι” Id.8.130 (and v.l. in 7.9.β́), Herod.8.19: (ἥσσων):—to be less or weaker than, inferior to, c. gen. pers., E.Alc.697: c. gen. pers. et part., “ἡττᾶσθαί τινος εὖ ποιοῦντος” X.An.3.2.23, cf. Cyr.5.4.32; ἡττᾶσθαί τινός τινι ib.8.2.13; ἔν τινι in a thing, ib.3.3.42, etc.: c. gen. rei, “τὸ μὴ δίκαιον τῆς δίκης -ώμενον” E.Ion 1117: c. neut. Adj. in acc., ὃ ἡττῷτο wherein he had proved inferior, X.Cyr.1.4.5.
2. as a real Pass., to be defeated, discomfited, “ὑπό τινος” Hdt.3.106, And.4.28, Th.2.39; ὑπ᾽ ἔρωτος, ὑπ᾽ ἔχθρας, Pl.Phdr.233c, Plt.305c, etc.; “πρὸς τἀφροδίσια” Id.Lg.650a: c. gen. pers., E.Hec.1252, Ar.Av.70, Th.3.57, etc.: c. gen. rei, “τοῦ κόπου γὰρ ἕσσωμαι” Herod. l.c.: c. dat. modi, “ἑσσωθῆναι μάχῃ ὑπό τινων” Hdt.5.46, etc.; “τοῖς ὅλοις” D.9.64, etc.; also c. acc., “μάχην” Isoc.5.47, D.19.320; “ἀγῶνα” D.C.63.9: c. dat., τῷ θυμῷ to be broken in spirit, Hdt.8.130; “ἑσσωθέντες τῇ γνώμῃ πρὸς Κύρου” Id.9.122; “ἡ. περί τι” Pl.Sph.239b: abs., οἱ ἡσσώμενοι, opp. οἱ κρατοῦντες, A.Th. 516, cf. Hdt.7.9.β́ ; “τὴν γνώμην αὐτῶν οὐχ ἡσσῆσθαι” Th.6.72.
3. as law-term, to be cast in a suit, S.Aj.1242, Ar.Pl.482, etc.; “ἡττ. ἐν τοῖς δικαστηρίοις” X.Mem.4.417; δίκην, παραγραφήν, Pl.Lg.880c, D.45.51.
4. give way, yield, c. gen. pers., “οἱ φύσαντες ἡσσῶνται τέκνων” S.Fr.936; “εἰ παθών γε σοῦ τάδ᾽ ἡσσηθήσομαι” E.Hipp.976; give way, be a slave to passion and the like , “νηδύος ἡσσημένος” Id.Fr.282.5; “τοῦ παρόντος δεινοῦ” Th.4.37; “τῶν φόβων” Pl.Lg.635d; “ἡδονῆς” X.Ages.5.1; “ὕπνου” Id.Cyr.1.5.11; [χρημάτων] Lys.28.9; τῆς τούτων παρασκευῆς ib. 11; “θνητοῦ κάλλους” Isoc.10.60; “πικροῦ ἔρωτος” E.Hipp.727: c. gen. pers., to be in love with . . , Plu.2.771f; of other things, “ἡττ. τοῦ ὕδατος” X.HG5.2.5; τοῦ δικαίου ib.5.4.31; “τῆς ἀληθείας” D.18.273; “τὸ δίκαιον ἡττ. τοῦ φθόνου” D.25.75.
5. c. dat., to be overcome by . . , “ἀκοῆς ἡδονῇ ἡσσώμενοι” Th.3.38, cf. 7.25; “ὕπνῳ” Ael.NA13.22; “τοῖς δικαίοις” Plu. Cat.Mi.16.
II. later in Act. ἡττάω , overcome, τινα Corn.ND9, Arr.Epict.2.22.6, al.: aor. 1 “ἥττησα, τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν ὑπεναντίων” Plb.1.75.3; “ταῖς ψυχαῖς τοὺς ὑπεναντίους” Id.3.18.5, cf. Heraclit.Incred.16; defeat, “τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἀπὸ κράτους ἡττηκότες” D.S.15.87.
