Perseus analyses of τέρπετ':

τέρπετε,τέρπω (delight, gladden, cheer): pres imperat act 2nd pl
τέρπετε,τέρπω (delight, gladden, cheer): pres ind act 2nd pl
τέρπεται,τέρπω (delight, gladden, cheer): pres ind mp 3rd sg
τέρπετο,τέρπω (delight, gladden, cheer): imperf ind mp 3rd sg (homeric ionic)
τέρπετε,τέρπω (delight, gladden, cheer): imperf ind act 2nd pl (homeric ionic)

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τέρπω

τέρπω, Od. 1.347, etc.; Ep. subj. τέρπῃσι 17.385: Ion. impf. τέρπεσκον Q.S. 7.378, AP 9.136 (Cyrus): fut. τέρψω S. Tr. 1246, etc.: aor. ἔτερψα h.Pan. 47, E. Heracl. 433, Pl. Lg. 658b:—

•. the Pass. and Med. have a fivefold aor.,

1. ἐτέρφθην Od. 5.74, 8.131, 17.174, S. OC 1140, E. Ion 541 (troch.); rare in Prose, X. Mem. 2.1.24.

2. Ep. ἐτάρφθην, τάρφθην, Od. 6.99, 19.213,251, 21.57.

•. delight, gladden, cheer, ὅ κεν τέρπῃσιν ἀείδων 17.385; τῇ [φόρμιγγι] ὅ γε θυμὸν ἔτερπεν Il. 9.189, al.; πεσσοῖσι . . θυμὸν ἔτερπον Od. 1.107; καὶ τὸν ἔτερπε λόγοις Il. 15.393; τοὐμὸν . . τ. κέαρ S. Tr. 1246; θοίνῃ σε τ. Achae. 17; ἡ ἀγγελίη . . ἔτερψε [αὐτούς] Hdt. 8.99; sts. in Att. Prose, ἔπεσι . . τὸ αὐτίκα τέρψει will give momentary pleasure, Th. 2.41, cf. Pl. Lg. 658b, 658e, etc.; τ. τὴν ἀκοήν, τὰς ἀκοάς, Phld. Po. 5.26,28; ἧλιξ τέρπει τὸν ἥλικα, prov. in Pl. Phdr. 240c, etc.: abs., give delight, Od. 1.347, 8.45, S. Aj. 475; τὰ τέρποντα delights, Id. OC 1217 (lyr.); ῥήματα τέρψαντά τι ib. 1281; οἱ τέρποντες λόγῳ ῥήτορες Th. 3.40; τὰ τέρψοντα X. Ages. 9.4.

II. more freq. in Pass. and Med.,

2. enjoy or delight oneself, c. dat. instr., φρένα τ. φόρμιγγι Il. 9.186; μύθοισι Od. 23.301; δαιτί 1.26; γόῳ φρένα 4.102; δίσκοισιν Il. 2.774; ἐν θαλίῃς Od. 11.603, Hes. Op. 115; φιλότητι (or ἐν φ.) τραπείομεν εὐνηθέντε Il. 3.441, 14.314 (whereas in the phrase λέκτρονδε τραπείομεν εὐνηθέντες (v.l. -θέντε), Od. 8.292, the form τραπείομεν seems to be taken by the poet as belonging to τρέπω, though others retain the usu. sense by connecting λέκτρονδε with εὐνηθέντες or by punctuating after λέκτρονδε); so in Trag., λαμπάδι τερπόμεναι A. Eu. 1042 (lyr.), cf. S. OC 1140, etc.; delight in, τῇ τῶν πυραμίδων μεγαλειότητι OGI 666.26 (Egypt, i A.D.); τοῖς εὐώδεσι Sor. 2.29; ἐπί τισι E. Rh. 194: c. part., λόγοις . . οἷς σὺ μὴ τέρψῃ κλύων S. Ant. 691; τέρπεται τιμώμενος E. Ba. 321; τί ἂν . . ἀκούσας τερφθείης; X. Mem. 2.1.24: abs., πῖνε καὶ τέρπευ drink and be merry, Hdt. 2.78.