ὑπηρετέω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> fut. ὑπηρετήσω Alex. (v. infr.), etc.: plpf. ὑπηρετήκειν X.''HG''3.3.9:—prop. [[do service on board ship]], as a [[rower]] (cf. [[ὑπηρέτης]], [[ὑπηρεσία]]), ''SIG''524.33,47 (Praesus, iii B. C.):—Pass., πλοῖον ὑπὸ δύο ἀνθρώπων ὑπηρετεῖσθαι δυνάμενον [[Diodorus Siculus|D.S.]]2.55.<br><span class="bld">II</span> to [[be a servant]], [[do service]], S.''El.''996, ''Ph.''990; opp. [[ἄρχω]], Ar.''V.''518 (troch.); τοὺς διὰ φόβον ὑ. X.''Hier.''1.38.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. dat., [[minister]] to, [[serve]], τῷ παρόντι δαίμονι S.''El.''1306, cf. E.''Ph.''1708, Th.4.108, etc.; <b class="b3">ὑ. τῷ χρηστηρίῳ</b> [[submit to]] its ruling, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.41, cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''914a; ἔργοις ἀνοσίοις ὑ. S.''OC''283; [[νόμῳ]], [[λόγῳ]], Lys.2.19; <b class="b3">ὑ. τοῖς τρόποις</b> [[humour]] his ways, Ar.''Ra.''1432; <b class="b3">τῷδ' ὑ. λόγῳ</b> [[second]], [[support]] it, E.''Med.''588; ὢν ἄνθρωπος ἀνθρώπου τύχαις ὑπηρετήσω Alex.150.<br><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">ὑ. τινὶ εἴς</b> or <b class="b3">πρός τι</b>, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.109, X.''Eq.''8.7, etc.; also <b class="b3">ὑ. τινί τι</b> [[serve]] one in a thing, οἷς σὺ ταῦθ' ὑπηρετεῖς S.''Ph.'' 1024, cf. Ar.''Pl.''979, Pl.''Smp.''196c, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''5.1.20, D.18.138,59.35.<br><span class="bld">b</span> in financial sense, τὸν δὲ ταμίαν εἰς τὸ ἀνάλωμα ὑπηρετῆσαι ''Supp.Epigr.'' 1.351.30 (Samos, iv B. C.), cf. 363.43 (ibid., iii B. C.), ''Inscr.Prien.''3 (iv B. C.), 18 (iii B. C.), al.<br><span class="bld">c</span> at Athens, [[serve]] as [[ὑπηρέτης]] of the Council, D.19.70.<br><span class="bld">d</span> in the Mithraic cult, to be a [[ὑπηρέτης]] or [[servitor]], Rev.Hist.Rel.109.63 (Rome).<br><span class="bld">e</span> [[render military service]], ''BGU''180.14,613.23 (both ii A. D.).<br><span class="bld">4</span> abs., [[serve]], [[be subordinate]], opp. [[προστάττω]], Arist.''Top.''129a13; ἡ ὑπηρετοῦσα ἐπιστήμη Id.''Metaph.''982b5: c. neut. pl. of Adj., etc., <b class="b3">τὰ λοίφ' ὑ.</b> [[help]] in what remains to be done, S.''Ph.''15; ὑ. τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον Pl.''R.''467a; and with cogn. acc., ὑ. τὰς διακονικὰς πράξεις Arist.''Pol.''1277a36:—Pass., to [[be done as service]], τὰ ἀπ' ἡμέων ἐς ὑμέας ὑπηρετέεται [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.139; <b class="b3">χρὴ δὴ τό γε ἐμὸν ὑπηρετέεσθαι</b> = then it behoves [[that]] my [[service]] should be [[render]]ed, Id.1.108; ἢν τὰ παρ' ὑμῶν ὑπηρετῆται Isoc.3.63; τὸ πρᾶγμα τὸ ὑπηρετηθέν Arist.''EE'' 1243a16, cf. X.''HG''5.2.34.—The Med. occurs in late texts, as Hld.7.19, al., and Alciphr.1.11, dub. in ''Supp.Epigr.''1.327.19 (Callatis, i A. D.); τὸ [[ὑπηρετούμενον]] = the [[retinue]], Memn.2.4; fut. ὑπηρετήσομαι ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''58.24 (iii A. D.); but in S.''El.''1306, [[ὑπηρετοίην]] was rightly restored by Musgrave and Elmsl. for <b class="b3">ὑπηρετοίμην</b>.