(f. ὀλισθήσω, ao.2 ὤλισθον, postér. ao.1 ὠλίσθησα, pf. ὠλίσθηκα) :
      1 intr. glisser, PLAT. Crat. 427 b ; tomber en glissant, XÉN. An. 3, 5, 11 ; ἐξ ἀντύγων, SOPH. El. 746 ; νηός, ANTH. 9, 267, glisser du rebord d’un char, d’un navire ; fig. εἰς νοῦσον, ANTH. 7, 233, tomber malade ;
      2 tr. déboîter, acc. PHILSTR. V. Ap. 3, p. 129, 3.

➳ Ao.2 poét. sans augm. ὄλισθον, IL. 20, 470 ; 23, 774 ; THCR. Idyl. 25, 230.

Étym. p. *ὀγλισθάνω, du th. ὀλιτ-, γλιτ- ; cf. lat. gli-sco.

(also ὀλισθαίνω Arist. Pr. 936a15, 939a26, A.R. 1.377, etc., but never in good Att.); fut. ὀλισθήσω LXX Pr. 14.19, Nonn. D. 36.458 ; pf. ὠλίσθηκα Hp. Art. 57, 65 ; plpf. ὠλισθήκειν (v. infr. II. 1) ; aor. ὠλίσθησα AP 9.125, Str. Chr. 4.8 (p. 476 Kr.), etc. ; 3 pl. ὠλίσθησαν Nic. Fr. 74.51 (codd. Ath., ὠλίσθηναν cj. Schn.) ; part. fem. ὀλισθήνασα Id. Al. 89; but in classical Att. always aor.2 ὤλισθον, part. ὀλισθών, inf. ὀλισθεῖν (Hom. only in Il., in Ep. 3 sg. ὄλισθε, v. infr.) : — slip, fall upon a slippery path, ἔνθ’ Αἴας μὲν ὄλισθε θέων Il. 23.774 ; ἐκ δέ οἱ ἧπαρ ὄλισθεν his liver fell from him, 20.470 ; ἐξ ἀντύγων ὤλισθε he slipped from…, S. El. 746 ; ὀ. τῆς χειρὸς ὁ σίδηρος Arist. Mech. 854a19 ; νηὸς ὀλισθών AP 9.267 (Phil.) ; ὀ. εἴσω, ἔξω, of a bone, slip out of the socket on one side or the other, Hp. Fract. 14, 37 ; θαυμαστὰ γὰρ τὸ τόξον ὡς ὀλισθάνει slips, loses its force, S. Fr. 960 ; metaph, ὀ. εἰς νοῦσον AP 7.233 (Apollonid.); ἐς ᾍδου IG 14.1642 ; in moral sense, make a slip, Ar. Ra. 690 ; in literary sense, εἰς τερατώδεις ὀ. ἀναπλασμούς Metrod. Herc. 831.5.
slip or glide along, ὀ. ἐν τῷ λάβδα ἡ γλῶττα Pl. Cra. 427b ; βέλος διὰ σαρκὸς ὄλισθεν Theoc. 25.230. causal, sprain by slipping, ὠλισθήκει τὸν γλουτόν Philostr. VA 3.39, cf. Gym. 14.
make to slip, τὰς διανοίας LXX Si. 3.24.

= ὀλισθαίνω.

1. to slip, slip and fall , (Iliad by Homer); ἐξ ἀντύγων ὤλισθε he slipped from the chariot, (Sophocles Tragicus):—;metaphorically to make a slip , (Aristophanes Comicus)
2. to slip or glide along , (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) (ML)