ἱστορέω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(ἵστωρ) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[inquire into]] or [[about]] a thing, τι <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.113</span>, <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Pr.</span>632</span>, etc.; περί τινος <span class="bibl">Plb.3.48.12</span>; also, [[inquire about]] a person, τινα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1150</span>, <span class="bibl">1156</span>; ὅδ' εἴμ' Ὀρέστης . . ὃν ἱστορεῖς <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span>380</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tr.</span>261</span>: folld. by relat. clause, Αἴγισθον ἔνθ' ᾤκηκεν ἱστορῶ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span> 1101</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[examine]], [[observe]], [[χώραν]], [[πόλιν]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Thes.</span>30</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pomp.</span>40</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>1.11.4</span>; <b class="b3">τὴν τοῦ Μέμνονος [σύριγγα</b>] <span class="title">OGI</span>694.7; τὴν σύνεσίν τινος <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Cic.</span>2</span>, etc.; τινὰς ἀπολουμένους Gal.11.109: hence, to [[be informed about]], [[know]], κακῶς τὸ μέλλον ἱστορῶν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>454</span>; πατέρα ἱστορεῖς καλῶς <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Eu.</span>455</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Praec.</span>12</span>: metaph., <b class="b3">εἴ τις ἀκτὶς ἡλίου νιν ἱστορεῖ βλέποντα</b> [[has news of]] him, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>676</span>: folld. by relat., τὴν πορείαν ἱστορῶν, ὡς δυσδίοδος ὑπάρχει <span class="bibl">Plb.3.61.3</span>; [[read in history]], <span class="bibl">Id.1.63.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. acc. pers., [[inquire of]], [[ask]], ἱστορέων αὐτοὺς ἥντινα δύναμιν ἔχει ὁ Νεῖλος <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.19</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">3.77</span>; [[inquire of an oracle]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 1547</span>; [[visit]] a person for the purpose of inquiry, Κηφᾶν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Gal.</span>1.18</span>:— Pass., to [[be questioned]], κληθέντας ἱστορέεσθαι εἰ . . <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.24</span>; ἱστορούμενος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>415</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>1371</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> c. dupl.acc., [[inquire of]] one [[about]] a thing, τί μ' ἱστορεῖς τόδε <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>621</span>, cf. Lyc.1. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> abs., [[inquire]], ἀκοῆ ἱ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.29</span>, etc.; especially in part., ἱστορέων εὕρισκε <span class="bibl">Id.1.56</span>, etc.; οὔθ' ὁρῶν οὔθ' ἱστορῶν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1484</span>; folld. by a relat. word, ἱστόρεόν τε ὅτεῳ τρόπῳ περιγένοιτο <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.122</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">give an account of what one has learnt, record</b>, τοὺς βίους τῶν χερσαίων <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>4.13.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Hist.Conscr.</span>7</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ἱστοροῦσί τινες . .</b> <b class="b2">it is stated that . .</b>, Dsc.4.75, etc.:—freq. in Pass., ὁ καρπὸς . . ἐπιλημπτικοὺς ἱστορεῖται ὠφελεῖν Id.1.83; περί τινος ἱστορεῖται διότι Phld.<span class="title">Mus.</span>p.18K.; ἱστορεῖται περὶ Γοργοῦς τοιοῦτον Plu.2.227e, cf. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cic.</span>1</span>, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">Tact.</span>34.3</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">Ἀπολλόδωρος εἴρηκεν ἀπελθόντας Ὕαντας ἱστορεῖσθαι</b> [[are represented]] as having gone, <span class="bibl">Str.10.3.4</span>; <b class="b3">τῶν ἱστορουμένων οὐδενὸς ἧττον πολυπράγμων</b> the most in dustrious person [[on record]], Phld.<span class="title">Mus.</span>p.108K.</span>