speed thee! away!, come!
only imper., βάσκʼ ἴθι speed thee! away! Il. 2.8, etc.; βάσκετʼ, ἐπείγετε Ar. Th. 783; but βάσκε come! A. Pers. 663, 671 (both lyr.); βάσκʼ, ἄλαστε Mim. Oxy. 413.60. (βάσκου· πορεύου is prob. f.l. in Hsch.).
The corpus record
βάσκω
basko
speed thee! away!
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
- Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- βάσκε · baske Aeschylus, Persians 663
- βάσκε · baske Aeschylus, Persians 671–672
- βάσκʼ · baskʼ Iliad 11.186
- βάσκʼ · baskʼ Iliad 15.158
- βάσκʼ · baskʼ Iliad 2.8
- βάσκʼ · baskʼ Iliad 24.144
6 of 8 attestations shown. Ask for more.
Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. βάσκω (scan p. 251; entry #1080).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. βάσκω (scan pp. 170-171; entry #1139).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. βάσκω (scan p. 254; entry #1010).