ὑπηρετέω

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   A -ήσω Alex. (v. infr.), etc.: plpf. ὑπηρετήκειν X.HG3.3.9:—prop. do service on board ship, as a rower (cf. ὑπηρέτης, ὑπηρεσία), SIG524.33,47 (Praesus, iii B. C.):—Pass., πλοῖον ὑπὸ δύο ἀνθρώπων ὑπηρετεῖσθαι δυνάμενον D.S.2.55.    II to be a servant, do service, S.El.996, Ph.990; opp. ἄρχω, Ar.V.518 (troch.); τοὺς διὰ φόβον ὑ. X.Hier.1.38.    2 c. dat., minister to, serve, τῷ παρόντι δαίμονι S.El.1306, cf. E.Ph.1708, Th.4.108, etc.; ὑ. τῷ χρηστηρίῳ submit to its ruling, Hdt.8.41, cf. Pl.Lg.914a; ἔργοις ἀνοσίοις ὑ. S.OC283; [νόμῳ, λόγῳ], Lys.2.19; ὑ. τοῖς τρόποις humour his ways, Ar.Ra.1432; τῷδ' ὑ. λόγῳ second, support it, E.Med.588; ὢν ἄνθρωπος ἀνθρώπου τύχαις ὑπηρετήσω Alex.150.    3 ὑ. τινὶ εἴς or πρός τι, Hdt.1.109, X.Eq.8.7, etc.; also ὑ. τινί τι serve one in a thing, οἷς σὺ ταῦθ' ὑπηρετεῖς S.Ph. 1024, cf. Ar.Pl.979, Pl.Smp.196c, X.Cyr.5.1.20, D.18.138,59.35.    b in financial sense, τὸν δὲ ταμίαν εἰς τὸ ἀνάλωμα ὑπηρετῆσαι Supp.Epigr. 1.351.30 (Samos, iv B. C.), cf. 363.43 (ibid., iii B. C.), Inscr.Prien.3 (iv B. C.), 18 (iii B. C.), al.    c at Athens, serve as ὑπηρέτης of the Council, D.19.70.    d in the Mithraic cult, to be a ὑπηρέτης or servitor, Rev.Hist.Rel.109.63 (Rome).    e render military service, BGU180.14,613.23 (both ii A. D.).    4 abs., serve, be subordinate, opp. προστάττω, Arist.Top.129a13; ἡ ὑπηρετοῦσα ἐπιστήμη Id.Metaph.982b5: c. neut. pl. of Adj., etc., τὰ λοίφ' ὑ. help in what remains to be done, S.Ph.15; ὑ. τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον Pl.R.467a; and with cogn. acc., ὑ. τὰς διακονικὰς πράξεις Arist.Pol.1277a36:—Pass., to be done as service, τὰ ἀπ' ἡμέων ἐς ὑμέας ὑπηρετέεται Hdt.4.139; χρὴ σὴ τό γε ἐμὸν ὑπηρετέεσθαι that my service should be rendered, Id.1.108; ἢν τὰ παρ' ὑμῶν ὑπηρετῆται Isoc.3.63; τὸ πρᾶγμα τὸ ὑπηρετηθέν Arist.EE 1243a16, cf. X.HG5.2.34.—The Med. occurs in late texts, as Hld.7.19, al., and Alciphr.1.11, dub. in Supp.Epigr.1.327.19 (Callatis, i A. D.); τὸ -ούμενον the retinue, Memn.2.4; fut. -ήσομαι POxy.58.24 (iii A. D.); but in S.El.1306, ὑπηρετοίην was rightly restored by Musgrave and Elmsl. for -οίμην.