For this verb cf. pi 1519, pi 1520, epsilon 2181.
[1] From a scholion on Homer, Iliad 3.299 (web address 1); aorist optative. Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius pi861 Theodoridis.
[2] Agathias, Histories 5.23 (using the aorist infinitive), on the young Byzantine military commander Germanus (cf. alpha 4595 end), leading a sortie against the besieging Kotrigur Huns on the Thracian Chersonese (the present-day Gallipoli Peninsula, cf. chi 215); cf. Frendo (159). On Germanus and his exploits while defending the peninsula's long wall in 559 CE, also see alpha 3435, epsilon 2035, omicron 782, pi 2901, sigma 1653, and tau 881.