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|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">make one's own, appropriate, usurp</b>, ἐὰν ἑσμοὺς ἀλλοτρίους σφετερίζῃ τις <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>843d</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ πράγματα κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἐσφετέρισαν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">715a</span>; τὸν χόρτον -ίσαντες <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGen.</span>49.15</span> (iv A.D.):—Pass., τῆς ἐσφετερισμένης ἀρχῆς <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">Hann.</span>45</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> more freq. in Med. σφετερίζομαι, <b class="b3">σφετεριξάμενοι</b> (Dor. aor.) πατραδέλφειαν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>38</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.1.36</span>, <span class="bibl">D.32.2</span>; σ. τι τῶν ἀλλοτρίων <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>952a29</span>; τι τῶν πέλας <span class="bibl">Plb.2.19.4</span>; χρήματα <span class="title">SIG</span>833.7 (Epist. Hadriani); ὄνομα Gal.6.543; ὅλον τὸν ἀκροατὴν σφετεριζόμενος <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Cal.</span>8</span>: pf. Pass. in same sense, <span class="bibl">D.H.10.32</span>; plpf. ἐσφετέριστο <span class="bibl">D.C.50.1</span>: also c. gen., -ομένους τῶν κοινῶν Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>2.174 S.; τῶν κτημάτων -ονται <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span> 195.17</span> (ii A.D.).</span>