cwconrad wrote:Where else Wes may have seen δρόμοισιν I don't know, but it could be an Aeolic dialect 3d pl. pres. indic. of δρομοῦν, and it might conceivably be found in the verse of Sappho or Alcaeus or in Hellenistic poets who, like Homer, occasionally wrote in Aeolic, where we'd also see Ionic dative plurals in -οισι(ν). The noun δρόμος appears to be involved in the passage Wes has cited from Plato's Laws. I think that the DGE entry on δρόμος is most informative, but my Spanish is hardly up to reaping the full benefit of it. I get the impression that the word is more poetic in register. Note particularly in DGE (at Logeion) s.v. δρόμος:
A como n. de acción
I de pers. y anim.
1 carrera ...
d) frases hechas ἅτε <τὸν> περὶ τοῦ παντὸς ἤδη δρόμον θέοντεςjugándose el todo por el todo Hdt.8.74, τὸν περὶ ψυχῆς δρόμον δραμεῖνcorrer por salvar el pellejo Ar.V.376, cf. Pl.Tht.172e, χωλῶν δ. ὠκύτατος καὶ κωφὸς ἀκούσει como imposibles resueltos milagrosamente Orac.Sib.8.206, cf. Amph.Seleuc.145
• frec. dat. δρόμῳ, δρόμοισι a la carrera μετά με δρόμοισι διόμενοι A.Supp.819
• esp. milit. o en sentido hostil a paso ligero o de carga ἤισαν δρόμῳ ἐς τὸν ἀνδρεῶνα Hdt.3.77, δρόμῳ ἵεντο εἰς τοὺς βαρβάρους Hdt.6.112, cf. 9.59, ἐχώρουν δρόμῳ Th.4.31, δρόμῳ ξυνῆψαν E.Ph.1101, cf. X.Cyr.3.3.62, Aen.Tact.15.4, D.S.14.23, βοηθῆσαι δρόμῳ Ar.Fr.564, cf. Au.205, δρόμῳ op. βάδην X.Cyr.3.3.61, cf. An.1.2.17, Plb.10.20.3
• fig. correría, andanzas en la caza οὐκ αὐτὸν ὅ τε δ. αἵ τ' ἐν ὄρεσσι ῥυσεῦνται ξυναὶ τᾶμος ἑκαβολίαι recogiendo el sign. de σύνδρομος Call.Lau.Pall.111, cf. Opp.C.2.17.
Muy bien, gracias. Not sure why you cited the Spanish, but there is little doubt that the forms are from the noun δρόμος:
δρόμος
δρόμος, ὁ, (δραμεῖν)
course, race, in Il.mostly of horses, ἵπποισι τάθη δρόμος 23.375; also of men, τέτατο δρόμος ib.758; οὐρίῳ δρόμῳ with prosperous course, S.Aj.889 (lyr.); ἅπαντι χρῆσθαι τῷ δρόμῳ at full speed, Luc.Dom.10: of any quick movement, e. g. flight, A.Pers.207: of Time, ἡμέρης δ. a day's running, i. e. the distance one can go in a day, Hdt.2.5; κατανύσαι τὸν προκείμενον δ. Id.8.98; ἵππου δ. ἡμέρας D.19.273: of Things, δ. νεφέλης, ἡλίου τε καὶ σελήνης, E.Ph.163, Pl. Ax.370b (pl.), etc.; οἱ δ. τῶν ἀστέρων Procl.Par.Ptol.136; δρόμῳ at a run, freq. with Verbs of motion, δρόμῳ διαβάντας τὸν Ἀσωπόν Hdt.9.59; ἰέναι Id.3.77; χρῆσθαι Id.6.112; χωρεῖν Th.4.31; δ. ξυνῆψαν E. Ph.1101; βοηθῆσαι δ. Ar.Fr.551: in pl., δρόμοις A.Pr.838, Supp. 819.
foot-race, as a contest, IG2.594.11, al.: prov., περὶ τοῦ παντὸς δρόμον (-μου codd.) θεῖν to run for one's life, Hdt.8.74; τὸν περὶ ψυχῆς δρόμον δραμεῖν Ar.V.375; περὶ ψυχῆς ὁ δ. Pl.Tht.173a: generally, contest, πλαγᾶν δρόμος, i. e. a pugilistic contest, Pi.I.5(4).60.
lap in a race, S.El.726 (interpol. ib.691); ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ δ. Arist.HA 579a8.
in speaking, rapid delivery, Longin.Rh.p.312S.
place for running, δρόμοι εὐρέες runs for cattle, Od.4.605.
racecourse, Hdt.6.126, E.Andr.599.
public walk, ἐν εὐσκίοις δ. Ἀκαδήμου Eup.32, cf. IG22.1126.36, etc.; colonnade, Pl.Tht.144c; κατάστεγος δ. cloister, Id.Euthd.273a; δ. ξυστός Aristias 5; in Crete, = γυμνάσιον, Suid., cf. SIG463.14 (Itanos, iii B. C.); δὔ ἢ τρεῖς δρόμους περιεληλυθότε having taken two or three turns in the cloister, Pl.Euthd. l. c.; in Egypt, avenue of Sphinxes at entrance of temples, OGI56.52 (Canopus, Ptol. III), Str.17.1.28, etc.; δ. τοῦ ἱεροῦ BGU 1130.10 (i B. C.).
orchestra in the theatre (Tarent.), Hsch.
metaph., ἔξω δρόμου or ἐκτὸς δρόμου φέρεσθαι get off the course, i. e. wander from the point, A.Pr.883 (anap.), Pl.Cra.414b; ἐκ δρόμου πεσεῖν A.Ag.1245; οὐδέν ἐστ' ἔξω δρόμου 'tis not foreign to the purpose, Id.Ch.514.
δ. δημόσιος, = Lat. cursus publicus, Procop. Vand.1.16, Arc.30, Lyd.Mag.2.10; δ. ὀξύς, = Lat. cursus velox, ib.3.61, POxy.900.7 (iv A. D.), et
The same root is supplied in the future and aorist forms normally associated with τρεχώ, δραμοῦμαι, ἔδραμον.