εἰκάζω: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to make like to, [[represent]] by a [[likeness]], [[portray]], Xen.; εἰκὼν γραφῆι εἰκασμένη a [[figure]] [[painted]] to the [[life]], Hdt.; αἰετὸς εἰκασμένος a [[figure]] like an [[eagle]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[liken]], [[compare]], τί τινι Aesch., Ar.; εἰκ. τι καί τι Hdt.: to [[describe]] by a [[comparison]], Hdt.:—Pass. to [[resemble]], τινι Eur.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to [[infer]] from [[comparison]], [[form]] a [[conjecture]], Hdt., Soph.; ὡς εἰκάσαι, so far as one can [[guess]], Hdt.:—c. acc. et inf. to [[guess]] that it is so, [[guess]] it to be, Hdt., Thuc.: —εἰκ. τι ἔκ τινος Aesch., Thuc.; ἀπό τινος Thuc.; εἰκ. τι to make a [[guess]] [[about]] it, Aesch.