ἐπιλέγω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[say in connection with]] an action, etc., <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.35</span>,<span class="bibl">64</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">ποιεῖν τι καὶ ἐπιλέγειν</b> [[say while]] or [[after]] doing it, <span class="bibl">Id.4.65</span>; [[παίζουσιν]] ἐπιλέγοντες <span class="bibl">Id.5.4</span>; ἐ. λόγον τόνδε, ὡς . . <span class="bibl">Id.2.156</span>, <span class="bibl">8.49</span>; <b class="b3">ἐξηπάτων . .</b> ἐπιλέγων τοιαυτί <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>418</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τεκμήρια τὴν ἄλλην αὐτοῦ . . παρανομίαν</b> [[citing]] it as proof, <span class="bibl">Th.6.28</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Alciphr.3.56</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span>. [[say besides]], [[ἑκάστῳ]] "<b class="b3">σοὶ μέν κτλ</b>." X.<b class="b2">Cyr.</b>.1.3.7, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1395a27</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.512</span>; <b class="b3">τὴν αἰτίαν</b> [[ἐ]]. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1417a28</span>:—Med., [[repeat]], D.H.<b class="b2">Rh.</b>.<span class="bibl">11.5</span>:—Pass., <b class="b3">[τὰ]</b> ἐπιλεγόμενα Arist.<b class="b2">Rh.</b>.1394a13. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span>. [[call by name]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.70</span>; [[ἐπέλεγον]] <b class="b3">δὲ κιθαρῳδικούς</b> (sc. [[νόμους]]) <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>700b</span>:—Med., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>49</span> (lyr.):— Pass., to [[be surnamed]], <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>13.10.4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span>. [[utter]], [[pronounce]] a spell (cf. [[ἐπεῖπον]]), ῥῆσιν μυστικήν <span class="bibl">Ath.11.496b</span>; ῥῆσίν τινα μακράν <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Nec.</span> 7</span>; τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐπιλέγειν τῷ λοιμῷ φεῦγ' ἐς κόρακας <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 496</span>, cf.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pr.</span>926b23</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EN</span>1109b11</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span>. [[attribute]], <b class="b3">τινὶ τὸ καλόν, τὸ χρήσιμον</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1323b12</span>; ἐ. τοῖς εὖ ἔχουσιν ἔργοις, ὅτι . . <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">EN</span>1106b10</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span>. [[say against]] one, <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">BC</span>3.18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span>. [[pick out]], [[select]], <span class="bibl">Hdt. 3.44</span>, <span class="bibl">81</span>; <b class="b3">ἔκ τινων πεζούς</b> Wilcken <span class="title">Chr.</span>11 <span class="title">A</span> 35 (ii B.C.):—freq. in Med., <b class="b3">τῶν Βαβυλωνίων ἐπελέξατο</b> he [[chose him]] certain of the Babylonians, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.157</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">6.73</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.7.19</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>151</span>, Wilcken <span class="title">Chr.</span>11 <span class="title">A</span> 49 (ii B.C.), <span class="bibl">D.S.3.74</span>:—Pass., [[ἐπιλελεγμένοι]] or [[ἐπειλεγμένοι]] [[chosen]] [[men]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>3.3.41</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.146</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1210.4</span> (i B.C.), etc.; οἱ ἐπιλεγέντες <span class="title">SIG</span>577.72 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span>. Med., [[think upon]], [[think]] [[over]], ταῦτα <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.78</span>, <span class="bibl">2.120</span>, al., cf.<span class="bibl">Ant.Lib.5.4</span>; <b class="b3">μὴ ἐ</b>. not [[to care]], <span class="bibl">Hdt. 7.236</span>, al.; <b class="b3">οὐδαμὰ ἐ. μή κοτε . .</b> to have no [[fear]] lest... <span class="bibl">Id.3.65</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">7.149</span>: c.inf., <b class="b3">πᾶν ἐπιλεγόμενος πείσεσθαι</b> <b class="b2">expecting . .</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.7.49</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">52</span>: rare in Trag., <b class="b3">μηδ' ἐπιλεχθῇς Ἀγαμεμνονίαν εἶναί μ' ἄλοχον</b> [[deem]] me not to be... <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1498</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span>. in Hdt. also, [[con over]], [[read]], <b class="b3">τὸ βυβλίον, τὰ γράμματα</b>, <span class="bibl">1.124</span>,<span class="bibl">125</span>,<span class="bibl">2.125</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Paus.1.12.3</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Hld.4.8</span>: so in Act., <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>11.153a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span>. [[recount]], in speaking, τὴν αἰσχύνην καὶ τὸν κίνδυνον <span class="bibl">D.H.9.57</span>.</span>