ἐπαινέω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Aeol. ἐπαίνημι <span class="bibl">Simon.5.19</span>; Lacon. [[ἐπαινίω]] <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span> 198</span>: impf. [[ἐπῄνεον]] Il <span class="bibl">3.461</span> (tm.): fut. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ἐπαινέσω <span class="bibl">Semon.7.29</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>1057</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>465</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Heracl.</span>[300]</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>214e</span> (dub. l.), <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.4.16</span>, <span class="bibl">5.5.8</span>: but more freq. ἐπαινέσομαι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1195</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>199a</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">R.</span> 379e</span>, <span class="bibl">383a</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>3.2.6</span>, <span class="bibl">D.2.31</span>, etc.; poet. ἐπαινήσω <span class="bibl">Thgn.93</span> codd., <span class="bibl">Pi. <span class="title">P.</span>10.69</span>: aor. 1 ἐπῄνεσα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>536</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.86</span>, etc. (v. infr.); poet. (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα <span class="bibl">Il.2.335</span>, <span class="bibl">18.312</span>, <span class="bibl">Thgn.876</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.168</span>,<span class="bibl">189</span>: also Aeol. prose, <span class="title">Schwyzer</span>622.21, 623.31, 636.17 (but ἐπαινέσαι 623.34): pf. ἐπῄνεκα <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.207</span>,261, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>307a</span>, etc.:—Med., aor. ἐπῃνησάμην <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>16.200c</span>; ἐπαινεσάμην <span class="bibl">Phalar.<span class="title">Ep.</span>147</span>:—Pass., fut. ἐπαινεθήσομαι <span class="bibl">And.2.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>474d</span>; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι <span class="bibl">Longus4.4</span> codd.: aor. ἐπῃνέθην <span class="bibl">Th.2.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.146</span>, etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην <span class="title">SIG</span>708.20 (Istropolis, ii B. C.): pf. ἐπῄνημαι <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>51</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.233</span>: = [[αἰνέω]] (for which it is regularly used in Att.):—[[approve]], [[applaud]], [[commend]], in Hom. mostly abs., ἐπὶ δ' ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί <span class="bibl">Il.3.461</span>, etc.: c. acc. rei, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος <span class="bibl">2.335</span>; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>457</span>; σύνθεσιν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.168</span>: c. dat. pers., [[agree with]], [[side with]], Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν <span class="bibl">Il.18.312</span>: abs., [[assent]], [[agree]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1616</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπαινεσάντων δ' αὐτῶν</b> on their [[assent]], <span class="bibl">Th.4.65</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[praise]], [[commend]] in any way (the usually sense in Att. and Trag.), [[τινά]] or τι, <span class="bibl">Alc. 37</span>A, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.34</span>,<span class="bibl">6.130</span>; τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐ. τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>264</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τινά τι</b> [[commend]] one [[for]] a thing, but in this case the thing is always a neut. Pron. or Adj., τὰ μέν σ' ἐπαινῶ <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>342</span> (cf. ''III''); πάντ' ἔχω σ' ἐπαινέσαι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1381</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>222a</span>; in <span class="bibl">Din.3.22</span> <b class="b3">ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, &lt;ἐπί&gt;</b> shd. be read; ἐπί τινι . . καὶ διότι <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span> 44.17 (ii B. C.); εἴς τι Pl.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1.111a; κατά τι <span class="bibl">D.S.1.37</span>; πρός τι <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Tht.</span>145b</span>; also ἐ. τινά τινος Plu.2.1c, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Herm.</span>42</span> (but <b class="b3">ἐ. τί τινος</b> [[praise]] something in some one, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Prt.</span>361d</span>): c.acc. cogn., ἔπαινον ἐ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">La.</span>181b</span>: c. part., ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον <span class="bibl">D.21.73</span>; ἐ. τινὰ ὅτι . . <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>471d</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα</b> [[praise]] one man to another, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span> 501c</span>; esp. [[compliment publicly]], [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ <span class="bibl">Th.2.25</span>; freq. in honorary Inscrr., cf. <span class="title">IG</span>22.102, <span class="title">Inscr.Prien.</span> l.c., etc.: c. dat. pers., τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Σαμίων <span class="title">IG</span>12.101.2, cf. <span class="title">SIG</span>604.11 (Delph., ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων ἐπαινουμένη <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.118</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1289a1</span>; νόμοι ἐπαινούμενοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1375b24</span>; [[approve]], πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ' ἐ. τὰ δίκαια <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>1077</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[agree to]] or [[undertake to do]], ῥώμην μ' ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>553</span>; ἐ. εἰς τὸ λοιπόν <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>8.18</span> (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> aor. [[ἐπῄνεσα]] in Att. in pres. sense, <b class="b3">ἐπῄνεσ' ἔργον</b> I [[commend]] it, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>536</span>: abs., [[well done]]! <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 282</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>485</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>1095</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Med.</span>707</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[παραινέω]], [[recommend]], [[advise]], τοιούσδ' ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλους; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1360</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>596</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Supp.</span>996</span>: c. dat. et inf., ὑμῖν δ' ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>581</span>; <b class="b3">σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ'</b> (cf.<span class="bibl">1.5</span>) <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>1322</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">OC</span>665</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> as a civil form of declining an [[offer]] or [[invitation]], [[I thank you]], [[I am much obliged]], κάλλιστ', ἐπαινῶ <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>508</span> (ubi v. Sch.), cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>342</span>; so <b class="b3">ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν</b> [[decline]] it, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span>1.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">An.</span>7.7.52</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> of Rhapsodists, [[recite]], [[declaim]] [[publicly]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ion</span>536d</span>, <span class="bibl">541e</span>.</span>