ἐπιδίδωμι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> [[give besides]], τινί τι Il.23.559, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.121.<b class="b3">δ'</b>,al., E.''Med.''186 (anap.), ''Ba.''1128, etc.: abs., Hes.''Op.''396, etc.<br><span class="bld">b</span>. of a physician, [[administer]], ὅσων τῷ κάμνοντι δεῖ Ph.1.253; [[give afterwards]], [[τροφὴν]] προδόντες ἐπιδιδόασι τὸν ἐλλέβορον Dsc.4.148.<br><span class="bld">2</span>. [[give in dowry]], <b class="b3">ὅσσ'</b> οὔ πώ τις ἑῇ ἐπέδωκε θυγατρί Il.9.148, cf. Lys.16.10, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''944a (Pass.), [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''8.5.19.<br><span class="bld">b</span>. esp. [[contribute as a benevolence]], for the purpose of supplying state necessities, opp. [[εἰσφέρειν]] (which was compulsory), Is.5.37; <b class="b3">ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἐπιδίδωμι</b> Din.1.80; τριήρη ἐπέδωκεν D.21.160; ἐπέδωκα τὰ χρήματα Id.18.113; τὸ κοινὸν ἐπέδωκε τῷ θεῷ ''SIG'' 489.9 (Delph., iii B.C.); but also,<br><span class="bld">c</span>. [[offer money]] as a bribe or consideration, X.''Ath.''3.3.<br><span class="bld">3</span>. [[give freely]], [[bestow]], Th.4.11, Ar.''Pax''333; ὑμῖν τῶν ἑαυτοῦ τι Lys.30.26; ἐ. τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ μέρους [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''1.5.1; [[τὸν]] ἑαυτοῦ [ζῆλον] εἰς τὴν φιλοδοξίαν ''Inscr.Prien.''114.12 (i B.C.).<br><span class="bld">4</span>. <b class="b3">ἐπιδιδόναι ἑαυτόν</b> [[give]] oneself [[up]], [[devote]] oneself, [[τινί]] to one, Ar.''Th.'' 213, cf. Luc.''Peregr.''13; εἴς τι ''SIG''495.124 (Olbia, iii B.C.), cf. Hdn. 3.4.1; <b class="b3">εἰς πᾶν τό σοι χρήσιμον ἐμαυτὸν ἐ.</b> ''UPZ''62.9 (ii B.C.); also (''[[sc.]]'' [[ἑαυτὸν]]) ἐπιδιδόναι εἰς τρυφήν Ath.12.525e; εἰς ὑπερηφανίαν Nymphis 15; ἐ. ἑαυτὸν τῇ πνεούσῃ Luc.''Herm.''28: abs., <b class="b3">ἐπιδόντες ἐφερόμεθα</b> ran [[before the wind]], Act.Ap.27.15.<br><span class="bld">5</span>. [[give into]] another's [[hands]], [[deliver]], ἐπιστολήν τινι D.S.14.47 (dub.l.), ''Act.Ap.''15.30; χρηματισμόν [[LXX]] ''2 Ma.''11.17; γραμματεῖον Luc.''Peregr.''16: abs., of petitions, freq. in Pap., ''BGU''45, etc.; of reports or returns, ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''255.16 (i A.D.), etc.:—Pass., ''OGI''515.37 (Mylasa, iii A.D.), Just.''Nov.''53.3.1.<br><span class="bld">6</span>. <b class="b3">ἐπιδίδωμι ψῆφον τοῖς πολίταις</b> [[give the citizens power to vote]], Plu.''Num.''7.<br><span class="bld">7</span>. [[dictate]], opp. [[γράφειν]], D.Chr.18.18.<br><span class="bld">II</span>. Med., [[take as one's witness]], <b class="b3">θεοὺς ἐπιδώμεθα</b> '[[give each other our gods]]', Il.22.254:—in Il.10.463, Aristarch. read <b class="b3">σὲ γὰρ πρώτην . . ἐπιδωσόμεθ'</b>, perhaps in the same sense, though Apollon. and Scholl. explain it by <b class="b3">δώροις τιμήσομεν</b>: cf. [[περιδίδωμι]].<br><span class="bld">III</span>. in Prose, freq. intr., [[increase]], [[advance]], ἐς ὕψος [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.13; καθ' ἡμέραν ἐς τὸ ἀγριώτερον Th.6.60; ἐς τὸ μισεῖσθαι Id.8.83; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον</b> ib.24; ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον Hp.''Aph.''1.3, Pl.''Prt.''318a; <b class="b3">εἰς ὄγκον πρὸς ἀρετήν</b> [[increase]] in virtue Id.''Lg.''913b; πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν Isoc.3.32: and abs., [[grow]], Pl.''Euthd.''271b; [[advance]], [[improve]], Th.6.72, 7.8; <b class="b3">βελτίων ἔσται καὶ ἐ.</b> Pl.''Prt.''318c, cf. ''Cra.''41ce, ''Tht.''146b, 150d, Isoc.9.68, etc.; <b class="b3">ἐ. πάμπολυ [ἡ μάχη]</b> [[waxes]] great, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Theaetetus|Tht.]]''179d.<br><span class="bld">2</span>. = [[ἐνδίδωμι]] v, [[give in]], [[give way]], ἐ. ἐπίδοσιν τοῖσι ἕλκουσι Hp.''Art.''72, cf. Gal.6.5, Sor.1.103.