πάσχω
I. radical sense, "to receive an impression from without, to suffer", as opp. to "doing", ἔρξαν τ᾽ ἔπαθόν τε Od.; δρᾶν καὶ πάσχειν, etc.; ὁμοίως π. τινί "to be in" the same "case" with.., Hdt.
II. the sense is often limited by some word expressing good or evil:
1. κακῶς πάσχειν "to be ill off, in evil plight, unlucky", Od., etc.; κακῶς π. ὑπό τινος "to be ill used, ill treated by..", Aesch.; often with an adj., κακά, λυγρὰ π. Il., etc.; δεινὰ π. Dem.; also with a Subst., ἄλγεα π. etc., Hom.
2. εὖ πάσχειν "to be well off, in good case, lucky", Theogn., etc.; also, "to receive benefits", opp. to εὖ δρᾶν, Aesch., etc.; so, ἀγαθὰ π. Hdt., etc.
3. without a limiting word, it always refers to "evil", being used for κακῶς or κακὰ π., μάλα πολλ᾽ ἔπαθον Od., etc.; μή τι πάθηις "lest thou suffer" any ill, Hom.; εἴ τι πάθοιμι or ἤν τι πάθω, a euphemism, "if" aught "were to happen" to me, i. e. if I were to die, Hdt., attic
4. τί πάθω; to express the extreme of perplexity, what "is to become of me"? what can I do? Hom., etc.; τί πάσχεις; what are you about? Ar.
5. the interrog. τί παθών; expresses something amiss, τί παθόντες γαῖαν ἔδυτε; "what ailed you" that you died? Od.
III. "to be affected" in a certain way, "be in a" certain "state of mind, entertain" certain "feelings", Thuc., Plat.; ὅπερ ἂν οἱ πολλοὶ πάθοιεν as "would be the case with" most men, Thuc.; ἵνα μὴ ταὐτὸ πάθητε τῶι ἵππωι "that it be" not "with" you as with the horse in the fable, Arist.; ὑϊκὸν πάσχει "he is" swinishly "disposed", Xen.; so of things, πάσχει τοῦτο καὶ κάρδαμα this "is just the way with" cress, Ar.
IV. τὰ εὖ πεπονθότα "benefits received", Aeschin.; cf. δράω.