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|mdlsjtxt=[v. sub fin.]<br />Dep.:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[pray]], [[offer]] prayers, pay one's vows, make a vow, Lat. precari, vota facere, θεῶι or θεοῖς Hom., etc.; πρὸς τοὺς θεούς Xen., etc.:—c. dat. commodi, to [[pray]] for one, Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. inf. to [[pray]] that, Hom., etc.; also, εὔχ. τοὺς θεοὺς [[δοῦναι]] to [[pray]] them to [[give]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. acc. objecti, to [[pray]] for a [[thing]], [[long]] or [[wish]] for, Pind., [[attic]]; εὔχ. τινί τι to [[pray]] for [[something]] for a [[person]], as Soph.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to vow or [[promise]] to do, c. inf., Hom., [[Attic]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. acc. rei, like Lat. vovere, to vow a [[thing]], Aesch., Ar.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to [[profess]] [[loudly]], to [[boast]], [[vaunt]], Il.; [[mostly]] of [[something]] of [[which]] one has a [[right]] to be [[proud]], πατρὸς ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ [[γένος]] [[εὔχομαι]] [[εἶναι]] Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[simply]] to [[profess]] or [[declare]], Od.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> as a Pass., ἐμοὶ [[μετρίως]] [[εὖκται]] I [[have]] prayed [[sufficiently]], Plat.:—but Soph. uses plup. [[ηὔγμην]] in act. [[sense]].