*trapei/omen: to\ baru/tonon tra/pw. poi= de\ tra/pwmai kai\ ti/s ge/nwmai; dia\ tou= w mega/lou. kai\ *tra/ph|s, au)qupo/takton.
The headword is an epic short-vowel subjunctive, apparently from the aorist passive of
tre/pw, quoted here from
Homer,
Odyssey 8.292 (web address 1). The lexicographer, however, seems to be positing a present indicative
tra/pw. In other instances, as at
Iliad 3.441 and 14.314, the headword form seems to be related to
te/rpw "take pleasure" (aorist
e)/trapon) and indeed
Hesychius glosses it with
terfqw=men, aorist passive subjunctive of
te/rpw.
[1] First person singular, aorist active subjunctive, of
tre/pw. when a verb is called "barytone," the meaning is that it is not a contract verb, so it is not accented on the last syllable.
[2] The question
poi= tra/pwmai; (with aorist middle subjunctive) occurs several times in
Euripides and elsewhere, but the closest parallel to the quotation here is in
Libanius,
Declamation 51.1.19:
ti/s ge/nwmai; poi= tra/pwmai; "Who should I become? Whither should I turn?"
[3] Second person singular, aorist active subjunctive, presumably quoted from somewhere.
P. Chantraine, Grammaire homérique (Paris 1973) vol. I p. 400 (§191)
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