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|mdlsjtxt=[[πίστις]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[trust]], [[trust]] to or in, put [[faith]] in, rely on, [[believe]] in a [[person]] or [[thing]], c. dat., π. τινί Hdt., [[attic]]; with neut. adj., λόγοις ἐμοῖσι πίστευσον [[τάδε]] [[believe]] my words herein, Eur.:—[[later]], π. εἰς Θεόν to [[believe]] on or in God, NTest.; π. ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον NTest.:—absol. to [[believe]], Hdt., Thuc.:—Pass. to be trusted or believed, Plat.; πιστεύεσθαι ὑπό τινος to [[enjoy]] his [[confidence]], Xen.; π. [[παρά]] τινι, πρός τινα Dem.; ὡς πιστευθησόμενος as if he would be believed, Dem.:—Mid. to [[believe]] [[mutually]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[comply]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. inf. to [[believe]] that, [[feel]] [[sure]] or [[confident]] that a [[thing]] is, [[will]] be, has been, Eur., etc.; π. ποιεῖν to [[dare]] to do a [[thing]], Dem.:—Pass., πιστεύομαι ἀληθεύσειν I am believed [[likely]] to [[speak]] [[truth]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> c. dat. et inf., τοῖσι ἐπίστευε σιγᾶν to whom he trusted that they would [[keep]] [[silence]], in whose secresy he confided, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> to [[believe]], [[have]] [[faith]], NTest.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> π. τί τινι to [[entrust]] [[something]] to [[another]], Xen., etc.:—Pass., πιστεύομαί τι I am entrusted with a [[thing]], [[have]] it committed to me, Xen.