ἐπαγγελία

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A command, summons, Plb.9.38.2.    b announcement, notice, IG22.1235.7 (iii B.C.); τοῦ ἀγῶνος SIG561.9 (Chalcis), prob. in LXX 1 Ma.10.15; v.l. in 1 Ep.Jo.1.5.    2 as law-term, ἐ. (sc. δοκιμασίας) summons to attend a δοκιμασία τῶν ῥητόρων (v. ἐπαγγέλλω 3), ἐ. τινὶ ἐπαγγέλλειν Aeschin.1.64, cf. 81; πρὸς τοὺς θεσμοθέτας ἔσθ' ἡμῖν ἐ. D.22.29: generally, notification, summons, Sammelb. 4434 (ii A.D.).    3 offer, promise, profession, undertaking, D.21.14; τὰς ὑπερβολὰς τῶν ἐ. Arist.EN1164a29, cf. Phld.Herc.1251.20; ἐπαγγελίας ποιεῖσθαί τινι Plb.1.72.6; ἐν ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ καταλιπών having left it as a promise, Id.18.28.1; τὴν ἐ. ἐπὶ τέλος ἀγαγεῖν ibid., cf. SIG577.11 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.); ὤμων ἐπαγγελίᾳ the promise of his shoulders, Philostr.Im.1.4; ἐξ ἐ., = ἐπαγγειλάμενος, BCH11.12 (Lagina); ἐ. ποιησάμενος ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων Michel473.10 (Mylasa); ἐβεβαίωσεν τὴν ἐ. Inscr.Prien.123.9, cf. GDI3624a34 (Cos).    4 indication, τοῦ ἐσομένου A.D.Synt.205.13.    5 pl., canvassing, = Lat. ambitus, prob. f.l. for παρ-, Plu.2.276d.    6 = ἐπάγγελμα 2, subject of a treatise, Gal.Libr.Propr.Prooem.    7 the curative property claimed for prescriptions or drugs, ταῖς τῶν φαρμάκων ἐ. their advertised properties, Herod.Med. ap. Orib.10.5.1, cf. Gal.13.504,al.; ἐ. ἐπιτηδεύματος public exercise of a profession, Men.Prot.p.1D.