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Λύπης ἰατρός ἐστιν ἀνθρώποις λόγος – For men reason is a healer of grief – Für Menschen ist der Trauer Arzt allein das Wort – Maeroris unica medicina oratio.
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|Definition=Aeol. ἐπαίνημι <span class="bibl">Simon.5.19</span>; Lacon. ἐπαινίω <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span> 198</span>: impf. <b class="b3">ἐπῄνεον</b> Il <span class="bibl">3.461</span> (tm.): fut. <span class="sense"><p> <span class="bld">A</span> -έσω <span class="bibl">Semon.7.29</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>1057</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>465</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Heracl.</span>[300]</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>214e</span> (dub. l.), <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.4.16</span>, <span class="bibl">5.5.8</span>: but more freq. -έσομαι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1195</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>199a</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span> 379e</span>, <span class="bibl">383a</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.2.6</span>, <span class="bibl">D.2.31</span>, etc.; poet. -ήσω <span class="bibl">Thgn.93</span> codd., <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">P.</span>10.69</span>: aor. 1 ἐπῄνεσα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>536</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.86</span>, etc. (v. infr.); poet. (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα <span class="bibl">Il.2.335</span>, <span class="bibl">18.312</span>, <span class="bibl">Thgn.876</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.168</span>,<span class="bibl">189</span>: also Aeol. prose, <span class="title">Schwyzer</span>622.21, 623.31, 636.17 (but -έσαι 623.34): pf. ἐπῄνεκα <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.207</span>,261, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>307a</span>, etc.:—Med., aor. ἐπῃνησάμην <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>16.200c</span>; -εσάμην <span class="bibl">Phalar.<span class="title">Ep.</span>147</span>:—Pass., fut. ἐπαινεθήσομαι <span class="bibl">And.2.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>474d</span>; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι <span class="bibl">Longus4.4</span> codd.: aor. ἐπῃνέθην <span class="bibl">Th.2.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.146</span>, etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην <span class="title">SIG</span>708.20 (Istropolis, ii B. C.): pf. ἐπῄνημαι <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>51</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.233</span>: = [[αἰνέω]] (for which it is regularly used in Att.):—<b class="b2">approve, applaud, commend</b>, in Hom. mostly abs., ἐπὶ δ' ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί <span class="bibl">Il.3.461</span>, etc.: c. acc. rei, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος <span class="bibl">2.335</span>; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>457</span>; σύνθεσιν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.168</span>: c. dat. pers., <b class="b2">agree with, side with</b>, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν <span class="bibl">Il.18.312</span>: abs., <b class="b2">assent, agree</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1616</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπαινεσάντων δ' αὐτῶν</b> on their <b class="b2">assent</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.65</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">praise, commend</b> in any way (the usu. sense in Att. and Trag.), <b class="b3">τινά</b> or τι, <span class="bibl">Alc. 37</span>A, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.34</span>,<span class="bibl">6.130</span>; τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐ. τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>264</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τινά τι</b> <b class="b2">commend</b> one <b class="b2">for</b> a thing, but in this case the thing is always a neut. Pron. or Adj., τὰ μέν σ' ἐπαινῶ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>342</span> (cf. <span class="bibl">111</span>); πάντ' ἔχω σ' ἐπαινέσαι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1381</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>222a</span>; in <span class="bibl">Din.3.22</span> <b class="b3">ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, <ἐπί></b> shd. be read; ἐπί τινι . . καὶ διότι <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span> 44.17 (ii B. C.); εἴς τι Pl.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1.111a; κατά τι <span class="bibl">D.S.1.37</span>; πρός τι <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Tht.</span>145b</span>; also ἐ. τινά τινος Plu.2.1c, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Herm.</span>42</span> (but <b class="b3">ἐ. τί τινος</b> <b class="b2">praise</b> something in some one, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>361d</span>): c.acc. cogn., ἔπαινον ἐ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">La.</span>181b</span>: c. part., ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον <span class="bibl">D.21.73</span>; ἐ. τινὰ ὅτι . . <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>471d</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα</b> <b class="b2">praise</b> one man to another, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span> 501c</span>; esp. <b class="b2">compliment publicly</b>, [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ <span class="bibl">Th.2.25</span>; freq. in honorary Inscrr., cf. <span class="title">IG</span>22.102, <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span> l.c., etc.: c. dat. pers., τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Σαμίων <span class="title">IG</span>12.101.2, cf. <span class="title">SIG</span>604.11 (Delph., ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">3</span> of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων -ουμένη <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.118</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1289a1</span>; νόμοι -ούμενοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1375b24</span>; <b class="b2">approve</b>, πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ' ἐ. τὰ δίκαια <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>1077</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">agree to</b> or <b class="b2">undertake to do</b>, ῥώμην μ' ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>553</span>; ἐ. εἰς τὸ λοιπόν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>8.18</span> (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">5</span> aor. <b class="b3">ἐπῄνεσα</b> in Att. in pres. sense, <b class="b3">ἐπῄνεσ' ἔργον</b> I <b class="b2">commend</b> it, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>536</span>: abs., <b class="b2">well done!</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 282</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>485</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1095</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Med.</span>707</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">II</span> = [[παραινέω]], <b class="b2">recommend, advise</b>, τοιούσδ' ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλους; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1360</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>596</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Supp.</span>996</span>: c. dat. et inf., ὑμῖν δ' ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>581</span>; <b class="b3">σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ'</b> (cf.<span class="bibl">1.5</span>) <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>1322</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span>665</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">III</span> as a civil form of declining an offer or invitation, I <b class="b2">thank you</b>, I <b class="b2">am much obliged</b>, κάλλιστ', ἐπαινῶ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>508</span> (ubi v. Sch.), cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>342</span>; so <b class="b3">ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν</b> <b class="b2">decline</b> it, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span>1.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">An.</span>7.7.52</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">IV</span> of Rhapsodists, <b class="b2">recite, declaim publicly</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ion</span>536d</span>, <span class="bibl">541e</span>.</span> | |Definition=Aeol. ἐπαίνημι <span class="bibl">Simon.5.19</span>; Lacon. ἐπαινίω <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span> 198</span>: impf. <b class="b3">ἐπῄνεον</b> Il <span class="bibl">3.461</span> (tm.): fut. <span class="sense"><p> <span class="bld">A</span> -έσω <span class="bibl">Semon.7.29</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>1057</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>465</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Heracl.</span>[300]</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>214e</span> (dub. l.), <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.4.16</span>, <span class="bibl">5.5.8</span>: but more freq. -έσομαι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1195</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>199a</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span> 379e</span>, <span class="bibl">383a</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.2.6</span>, <span class="bibl">D.2.31</span>, etc.; poet. -ήσω <span class="bibl">Thgn.93</span> codd., <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">P.</span>10.69</span>: aor. 1 ἐπῄνεσα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>536</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.86</span>, etc. (v. infr.); poet. (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα <span class="bibl">Il.2.335</span>, <span class="bibl">18.312</span>, <span class="bibl">Thgn.876</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.168</span>,<span class="bibl">189</span>: also Aeol. prose, <span class="title">Schwyzer</span>622.21, 623.31, 636.17 (but -έσαι 623.34): pf. ἐπῄνεκα <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.207</span>,261, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>307a</span>, etc.:—Med., aor. ἐπῃνησάμην <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>16.200c</span>; -εσάμην <span class="bibl">Phalar.<span class="title">Ep.</span>147</span>:—Pass., fut. ἐπαινεθήσομαι <span class="bibl">And.2.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>474d</span>; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι <span class="bibl">Longus4.4</span> codd.: aor. ἐπῃνέθην <span class="bibl">Th.2.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.146</span>, etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην <span class="title">SIG</span>708.20 (Istropolis, ii B. C.): pf. ἐπῄνημαι <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>51</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.233</span>: = [[αἰνέω]] (for which it is regularly used in Att.):—<b class="b2">approve, applaud, commend</b>, in Hom. mostly abs., ἐπὶ δ' ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί <span class="bibl">Il.3.461</span>, etc.: c. acc. rei, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος <span class="bibl">2.335</span>; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>457</span>; σύνθεσιν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.168</span>: c. dat. pers., <b class="b2">agree with, side with</b>, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν <span class="bibl">Il.18.312</span>: abs., <b class="b2">assent, agree</b>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1616</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπαινεσάντων δ' αὐτῶν</b> on their <b class="b2">assent</b>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.65</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">praise, commend</b> in any way (the usu. sense in Att. and Trag.), <b class="b3">τινά</b> or τι, <span class="bibl">Alc. 37</span>A, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.34</span>,<span class="bibl">6.130</span>; τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐ. τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>264</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τινά τι</b> <b class="b2">commend</b> one <b class="b2">for</b> a thing, but in this case the thing is always a neut. Pron. or Adj., τὰ μέν σ' ἐπαινῶ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>342</span> (cf. <span class="bibl">111</span>); πάντ' ἔχω σ' ἐπαινέσαι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1381</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>222a</span>; in <span class="bibl">Din.3.22</span> <b class="b3">ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, <ἐπί></b> shd. be read; ἐπί τινι . . καὶ διότι <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span> 44.17 (ii B. C.); εἴς τι Pl.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1.111a; κατά τι <span class="bibl">D.S.1.37</span>; πρός τι <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Tht.</span>145b</span>; also ἐ. τινά τινος Plu.2.1c, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Herm.</span>42</span> (but <b class="b3">ἐ. τί τινος</b> <b class="b2">praise</b> something in some one, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>361d</span>): c.acc. cogn., ἔπαινον ἐ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">La.</span>181b</span>: c. part., ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον <span class="bibl">D.21.73</span>; ἐ. τινὰ ὅτι . . <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>471d</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα</b> <b class="b2">praise</b> one man to another, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span> 501c</span>; esp. <b class="b2">compliment publicly</b>, [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ <span class="bibl">Th.2.25</span>; freq. in honorary Inscrr., cf. <span class="title">IG</span>22.102, <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span> l.c., etc.: c. dat. pers., τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Σαμίων <span class="title">IG</span>12.101.2, cf. <span class="title">SIG</span>604.11 (Delph., ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">3</span> of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων -ουμένη <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.118</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1289a1</span>; νόμοι -ούμενοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1375b24</span>; <b class="b2">approve</b>, πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ' ἐ. τὰ δίκαια <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>1077</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">agree to</b> or <b class="b2">undertake to do</b>, ῥώμην μ' ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>553</span>; ἐ. εἰς τὸ λοιπόν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>8.18</span> (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">5</span> aor. <b class="b3">ἐπῄνεσα</b> in Att. in pres. sense, <b class="b3">ἐπῄνεσ' ἔργον</b> I <b class="b2">commend</b> it, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>536</span>: abs., <b class="b2">well done!</b> <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 282</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>485</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1095</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Med.</span>707</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">II</span> = [[παραινέω]], <b class="b2">recommend, advise</b>, τοιούσδ' ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλους; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1360</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>596</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Supp.</span>996</span>: c. dat. et inf., ὑμῖν δ' ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>581</span>; <b class="b3">σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ'</b> (cf.<span class="bibl">1.5</span>) <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>1322</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span>665</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">III</span> as a civil form of declining an offer or invitation, I <b class="b2">thank you</b>, I <b class="b2">am much obliged</b>, κάλλιστ', ἐπαινῶ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>508</span> (ubi v. Sch.), cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>342</span>; so <b class="b3">ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν</b> <b class="b2">decline</b> it, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span>1.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">An.</span>7.7.52</span>. </span><span class="sense"> <span class="bld">IV</span> of Rhapsodists, <b class="b2">recite, declaim publicly</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ion</span>536d</span>, <span class="bibl">541e</span>.</span> | ||
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-01-0895.png Seite 895]] (s. [[αἰνέω]]), fut. ἐπαινέσομαι Eur Bacch. 1195 Plat. Conv. 199 a Xen. Hell. 3, 2, 6 Dem. 2, 31, ἐπαινέσω Xen. An. 1, 4, 16. 5, 58 Soph. El. 1033. 1047 Eur. Andr. 464 u. sp. D. (Plat. Legg. IV, 719 e ist wegen des dabei stehender ἄν wohl in ἐπαινέσαι zu ändern); ἐπαινήσω nur p., Pind. P. 10, 69 Nonn. D. 11, 150; ἐπῃνημένος Isocr. 12, 233; ἐπαινεθήσεται Plat. Rep. V 474 d; [[ἐπαινετέον]] III, 390 e; – <b class="b2">loben</b>, Beifall bezeigen, billigen, theils absol., οἱ δ' ἄρα πάντες ἐπῄνεον, ἐπὶ δ' ᾔνεον ἄλλοι, Il. 3, 461. 23, 539 theils c. acc., μῦθον Ὀδυσσῆος 2, 335; Ἕκτορι d. i. beistimmen, 18, 312, μῦθόν τινι H. h. Merc 457. Einzeln auch in Prosa, ἐπαινεσάντων δ' αὐ. τῶν, nach ihrer Genehmigung, Thuc. 4, 65, wie Xen An. 1, 3, 7 u. öfter. – Gew. Pind., Tragg. u. in Prosa, – 1) loben, im Ggstz von [[ψέγω]], Plat. Theaet. 145 a, wo πρὸς ἀρετὴν καὶ σοφίαν dabei steht, vgl. εἰς u. [[πρός]]; von ἀτιμάζειν, Xen. An. 1, 6, 20; πάντ' ἔχω σ' ἐπαινέσαι λόγοισι, in jeder Beziehung, Soph. Ai. 1381; ἃ ἐγὼ Σωκράτη ἐπαινῶ, worin ich den S., od. was ich an dem Sokrates lobe, Plat. Conv. 222 a, vgl. 201 c; Sp. auch τινά τινος, wie D. Hal. rhet. 14; ἐπί τινι, Xen An. 5, 1, 45; τινί, worüber, Din. 3, 22; [[κατά]] τι D. Sic. 1, 37. – 2) zureden, ermahnen, anempfehlen (vgl. [[παραινέω]]), ὑμᾶς δ' ἐπαινῶ μὴ καταισχύνειν ἐμέ Aesch. Suppl. 974; ὑμῖν ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν Ch. 574; θαρσεῖν, σιγᾶν Soph. O. C. 671 El. 1314. – 3) sich schönstens für Etwas bedanken, höflich ablehnen, κάλλιστ' ἐπαινῶ Ar. Ran. 519, Schol. παραιτούμενοι ἔλεγον; τἡν κλῆσιν, für die Einladung danken, Xen. Conv. 1, 7; Plut. aud. poet. 5 p: 86. Aehnlich wenn man seine Zufriedenheit mit Etwas bezeugt, aber es ablehnt Xen. An. 7, 7, 52 Hell. 7, 4, 5. – 4) feierlich recitiren, vom Vortrage der Rhapsoden, Plat. Ion 536 d 541 e. | |||
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Aeol. ἐπαίνημι Simon.5.19; Lacon. ἐπαινίω Ar.Lys. 198: impf. ἐπῄνεον Il 3.461 (tm.): fut.
A -έσω Semon.7.29, S.El.1057, E.Andr.465 (lyr.), Heracl.[300], Pl.Smp.214e (dub. l.), X.An.1.4.16, 5.5.8: but more freq. -έσομαι E.Ba.1195 (lyr.), Pl.Smp.199a, R. 379e, 383a, X.HG3.2.6, D.2.31, etc.; poet. -ήσω Thgn.93 codd., Pi. P.10.69: aor. 1 ἐπῄνεσα S.Aj.536, Th.1.86, etc. (v. infr.); poet. (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα Il.2.335, 18.312, Thgn.876, Pi.P.4.168,189: also Aeol. prose, Schwyzer622.21, 623.31, 636.17 (but -έσαι 623.34): pf. ἐπῄνεκα Isoc.12.207,261, Pl.Plt.307a, etc.:—Med., aor. ἐπῃνησάμην Them.Or.16.200c; -εσάμην Phalar.Ep.147:—Pass., fut. ἐπαινεθήσομαι And.2.13, Pl.R.474d; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι Longus4.4 codd.: aor. ἐπῃνέθην Th.2.25, Isoc.12.146, etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην SIG708.20 (Istropolis, ii B. C.): pf. ἐπῄνημαι Hp.Acut.51, Isoc.12.233: = αἰνέω (for which it is regularly used in Att.):—approve, applaud, commend, in Hom. mostly abs., ἐπὶ δ' ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί Il.3.461, etc.: c. acc. rei, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος 2.335; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι h.Merc.457; σύνθεσιν Pi.P.4.168: c. dat. pers., agree with, side with, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν Il.18.312: abs., assent, agree, Ar.Av.1616; ἐπαινεσάντων δ' αὐτῶν on their assent, Th.4.65. 2 praise, commend in any way (the usu. sense in Att. and Trag.), τινά or τι, Alc. 37A, Hdt.3.34,6.130; τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐ. τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν E.Hipp.264; ἐ. τινά τι commend one for a thing, but in this case the thing is always a neut. Pron. or Adj., τὰ μέν σ' ἐπαινῶ A.Pr.342 (cf. 111); πάντ' ἔχω σ' ἐπαινέσαι S.Aj.1381, cf. Pl.Smp.222a; in Din.3.22 ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, <ἐπί> shd. be read; ἐπί τινι . . καὶ διότι Inscr.Prien. 44.17 (ii B. C.); εἴς τι Pl.Alc.1.111a; κατά τι D.S.1.37; πρός τι Pl. Tht.145b; also ἐ. τινά τινος Plu.2.1c, Luc.Herm.42 (but ἐ. τί τινος praise something in some one, Pl.Prt.361d): c.acc. cogn., ἔπαινον ἐ. Id.La.181b: c. part., ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον D.21.73; ἐ. τινὰ ὅτι . . Pl.Grg.471d; ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα praise one man to another, Id.R. 501c; esp. compliment publicly, [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ Th.2.25; freq. in honorary Inscrr., cf. IG22.102, Inscr.Prien. l.c., etc.: c. dat. pers., τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Σαμίων IG12.101.2, cf. SIG604.11 (Delph., ii B. C.). 3 of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων -ουμένη Isoc.12.118, cf. Arist.Pol.1289a1; νόμοι -ούμενοι Id.Rh.1375b24; approve, πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ' ἐ. τὰ δίκαια A.Th.1077. 4 agree to or undertake to do, ῥώμην μ' ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν E.Andr.553; ἐ. εἰς τὸ λοιπόν PTeb.8.18 (iii B. C.). 5 aor. ἐπῄνεσα in Att. in pres. sense, ἐπῄνεσ' ἔργον I commend it, S.Aj.536: abs., well done! Id.Fr. 282, Ar.Ach.485, cf. E.Alc.1095, Med.707. II = παραινέω, recommend, advise, τοιούσδ' ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλους; S.Aj.1360, cf. A.Th.596, Supp.996: c. dat. et inf., ὑμῖν δ' ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν Id.Ch.581; σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ' (cf.1.5) S.El.1322, cf. OC665. III as a civil form of declining an offer or invitation, I thank you, I am much obliged, κάλλιστ', ἐπαινῶ Ar.Ra.508 (ubi v. Sch.), cf. A.Pr.342; so ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν decline it, X.Smp.1.7, cf. An.7.7.52. IV of Rhapsodists, recite, declaim publicly, Pl.Ion536d, 541e.
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[Seite 895] (s. αἰνέω), fut. ἐπαινέσομαι Eur Bacch. 1195 Plat. Conv. 199 a Xen. Hell. 3, 2, 6 Dem. 2, 31, ἐπαινέσω Xen. An. 1, 4, 16. 5, 58 Soph. El. 1033. 1047 Eur. Andr. 464 u. sp. D. (Plat. Legg. IV, 719 e ist wegen des dabei stehender ἄν wohl in ἐπαινέσαι zu ändern); ἐπαινήσω nur p., Pind. P. 10, 69 Nonn. D. 11, 150; ἐπῃνημένος Isocr. 12, 233; ἐπαινεθήσεται Plat. Rep. V 474 d; ἐπαινετέον III, 390 e; – loben, Beifall bezeigen, billigen, theils absol., οἱ δ' ἄρα πάντες ἐπῄνεον, ἐπὶ δ' ᾔνεον ἄλλοι, Il. 3, 461. 23, 539 theils c. acc., μῦθον Ὀδυσσῆος 2, 335; Ἕκτορι d. i. beistimmen, 18, 312, μῦθόν τινι H. h. Merc 457. Einzeln auch in Prosa, ἐπαινεσάντων δ' αὐ. τῶν, nach ihrer Genehmigung, Thuc. 4, 65, wie Xen An. 1, 3, 7 u. öfter. – Gew. Pind., Tragg. u. in Prosa, – 1) loben, im Ggstz von ψέγω, Plat. Theaet. 145 a, wo πρὸς ἀρετὴν καὶ σοφίαν dabei steht, vgl. εἰς u. πρός; von ἀτιμάζειν, Xen. An. 1, 6, 20; πάντ' ἔχω σ' ἐπαινέσαι λόγοισι, in jeder Beziehung, Soph. Ai. 1381; ἃ ἐγὼ Σωκράτη ἐπαινῶ, worin ich den S., od. was ich an dem Sokrates lobe, Plat. Conv. 222 a, vgl. 201 c; Sp. auch τινά τινος, wie D. Hal. rhet. 14; ἐπί τινι, Xen An. 5, 1, 45; τινί, worüber, Din. 3, 22; κατά τι D. Sic. 1, 37. – 2) zureden, ermahnen, anempfehlen (vgl. παραινέω), ὑμᾶς δ' ἐπαινῶ μὴ καταισχύνειν ἐμέ Aesch. Suppl. 974; ὑμῖν ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν Ch. 574; θαρσεῖν, σιγᾶν Soph. O. C. 671 El. 1314. – 3) sich schönstens für Etwas bedanken, höflich ablehnen, κάλλιστ' ἐπαινῶ Ar. Ran. 519, Schol. παραιτούμενοι ἔλεγον; τἡν κλῆσιν, für die Einladung danken, Xen. Conv. 1, 7; Plut. aud. poet. 5 p: 86. Aehnlich wenn man seine Zufriedenheit mit Etwas bezeugt, aber es ablehnt Xen. An. 7, 7, 52 Hell. 7, 4, 5. – 4) feierlich recitiren, vom Vortrage der Rhapsoden, Plat. Ion 536 d 541 e.
