ἐπισκήπτειν

From LSJ

Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)

Source

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also ἐπισκήπτω): bid, command, conjure, enjoin, exhort, order

Lexicon Thucydideum

obtestari, obsecrare, to beseech, implore, 2.73.3 (Athenienses Plataeensibus the Athenians to the Plataeans), 3.59.4.