Perseus analyses of εὔχετο:

εὔχομαι (pray): imperf ind mp 3rd sg
εὔχομαι (pray): imperf ind mp 3rd sg (homeric ionic)

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εὔχομαι

εὔχομαι, impf. εὐχόμην (Att. ηὐ-) Il. 3.275, etc.: fut. εὔξομαι Ar. Av. 622 (anap.), etc.: aor. 1 εὐξάμην (Att. ηὐ-) Il. 8.254, etc.: 2sg. subj. εὔξεαι Od. 3.45: (augm. ηὐ- only Att.acc. to Hdn.Gr.2.789, Moer. 175): —

3. c. acc. obj., pray for, long or wish for, χρυσόν Pi. N. 8.37, etc.; εὐχόμενος ἄν τις ταῦτα εὔξαιτο Antipho 6.1; εὔ. τινί τι pray for something for a person, S. Ph. 1019; κακόν τινι Lys. 21.21; also, pray for a thing from . . , τοῖς θεοῖς πολλὰ ἀγαθὰ ὑπέρ τινος X. Mem. 2.2.10; τοῖς θεοῖς πολυκαρπίαν ib.3.14.3; δεινὸν κατά τινος Luc. Abd. 32.

II. vow or promise to do . . , c. fut. inf., εὔχομαι ἐξελάαν κύνας Il. 8.526; θεοῖσι . . ἑκατόμβας ῥέξειν Od. 17.50, cf. Il. 4.101, Pl. Phd. 58b, IG 12.108.55, 22.112.6 (iv B.C.): c. aor. inf., εὔχετο πάντʼ ἀποδοῦναι claimed (the right) to pay in full, Il. 18.499 (unless in signf. III.3): c. pres.inf., ηὔξω θεοῖς . . ἂν ὧδʼ ἔρδειν τάδε; A. Ag. 933, cf. S. Ph. 1032 codd.

2. c. acc. rei, vow a thing, πολλῶν πατησμὸν εἱμάτων A. Ag. 963; ἱερεῖον Ar. Av. 1619; [λύχνον] περὶ παιδός Call. Epigr. 56.3.

2. boast vainlv, brag, εὔχεαι αὔτως Il. 11.388: c. inf., εὔ. δῃώσειν S. OC 1318.

IV. Pass., ἐμοὶ μετρίως ηὖκται I have prayed sufficiently, Pl. Phdr. 279c: pf.inf., ταῦτα μὲν ηὖχθαι IG 22.112.12 (iv B.C.); ἡ πανήγυρις ἡ . . εὐχθεῖσα vowed, D.C. 48.32: but plpf. (or non-thematic preterite) ηὔγμην in act. sense, S. Tr. 610; so εὖκτο Thebaïs Fr. 3. (Cf. Skt. óhate ‘to (be able to) boast that one is’, ‘to brag’, Avest. aog- ‘declare solemnly’.)