φαρμακεύω

English (LSJ)

   A administer a drug or medicine, Pl.R.459c, Ti.89d.    2 use enchantments, practise sorcery, φαρμακεύσαντες ταῦτα ἐς τὸν ποταμόν having used this charm upon the river, Hdt.7.114.    II c. acc. pers., purge, τινα Hp.Acut.(Sp.)55; φ. ἄνω κούφῳ φαρμάκῳ purge upwards, i. e. by an emetic, Id.Art.67, cf. Aph.4.12:—Pass., to be purged, ib.2.37, Men. Her.Fr.5; to be physicked, Arist. Top.111a2.    2 drug a person, give him a poisonous or stupefying drug, E.Andr.355, SIG1181.4 (Rhenea, ii B. C.); φ. τινὰ ἐπὶ βλάβῃ μὴ θανασίμῳ Pl.Lg.933d:—Pass., οὐ πεφαρμάκευσαι ἀλλὰ μεμάγ<ε>υσαι Astramps.Orac.25.4(ii A. D.), cf. POxy.472.1 (ii A. D.).    3 season in cookery, [ἰχθὺν] πεφαρμακευμένον τυροῖσι Philem.79.5.    4 metaph., πειθοῖ κακῇ τὴν ψυχὴν φ. Gorg. Fr.11 D.