Ἀσπάζεσθαι

[Used] with an accusative.¹ [Meaning] both to address, as we [use this word], and simply to greet someone, and to treat affectionately, and to embrace. Also [sc. attested is] a)spazo/mesqa ["we greet"], [spelled] with sigma: "we greet the oars and the little oar-straps," says the Comic [poet].¹ And all such things are found [spelled] in two ways.