πυνθάνομαι
"to learn by hearsay or by inquiry", Hdt.:
1. πυνθ. τί τινος "to learn" something "from" a person, Hom., etc.; τι ἀπό τινος Aesch.; ἔκ τινος Soph.; παρά τινος Hdt.
2. c. acc. rei only, "to hear or learn" a thing, Od., attic
3. c. gen. "to hear of, hear tell of, hear news of", Od., etc.
4. π. τινά τινος "to inquire about" one person "of or from" another, Ar.; so, π. περί τινος Hdt., attic
5. c. part., πυθόμην ὁρμαίνοντα ὁδόν "I heard" that he was starting, Od.; π. τὸ Πλημμύριον ἑαλωκός "to hear" that Plemmyrium had been taken, Thuc.:—so, οὔπω πυθέσθην Πατρόκλοιο θανόντος "they had" not yet "heard of" his being dead, Il.
6. c. inf. "to hear or learn that", Soph., etc.