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apodidômi, fut. -dôsô: aor. 1 apedôka: aor. 2 apedôn A.D.Synt. 276.9, shortened inf. apodoun prob. in Hsch.:--

  • give up or back, restore, return, tini ti Hom., etc.: esp. render what is due, pay, as debts, penalties, submission, honour, etc., tokeusi threptra Hom. Il. 4.478; a. tini lôbên give him back his insuit, i.e. make atonement for it, IBID=au=Hom. Il. 9.387 (tm.); tên plêmmeleian LXXNu.5.7; eu erdonti kakên a. amoibên Thgn.1263; a. tên homoiên tini Hdt. 4.119; amoibas Democr.92; kakon ant' agathou IDEM=Democr.93; a. to morsimon pay the debt of fate, Pind. N. 7.44; to chreos Hdt. 2.136; ton naulon Aristoph. Frogs 270; tên zêmian, tên katadikên, Thuc. 3.70, au=Thuc. 5.50; tên phernên PEleph.1.11 (iv B. C.); euchas Xen. Mem. 2.2.10; a. opisô es Hêrakleidas tên archên Hdt. 1.13, etc.; poleis a. tois parakatathemenois Aeschin. 3.85; a. charitas Lys. 31.24; ouk es charin all' es opheilêma tên aret ên a. Thuc. 2.40; a. charin tinos Isoc. 6.73; [tên polin] a. tois epigignomenois hoianper para tôn paterôn parelabomen Xen. Hell. 7.1.30:--

  • Pass., eôs k' apo panta dotheiê Hom. Od. 2.78; a. misthos, charites, Aristoph. Kn. 1066, Thuc. 3.63.

    2. assign, tais gunaixi mousikên kai gumnastikên
    Plat. Rep. 456b; to dikaion kai to sumpheron Aristot. Rh. 1354b3, cf. au=Aristot. Rh. 1356a15; to pros alkên hoplon a. hêphusis IDEM=Arist. GA759b3, etc.

    3. render, yield, of land, epi diêkosia apodounai (sc. karpon) yield fruit two hundred-fold,
    Hdt. 1.193; thalla d' han tis katabalê apedôken ortheôs Men.Georg.38; ên hê chôrê kata logon epididoi es hupsos kai to homoion apodidoi es auxêsin renders, makes a like increase in extent, Hdt. 2.13:--

  • hence perh. metaph., to ergon a. Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1106a16; a. dakru Eur. Her. 489.

    4. concede, allow, c. inf., suffer or allow a person to do, a. tisi autonomeisthai
    Thuc. 1.144, cf. au=Thuc. 3.36; ei de tois men . . epitattein apodôsete Dem. 2.30; a. kolazein IDEM=Dem. 23.56; tôi dikastêriôi apodidotai tou phonou tas dikas dikazein Lys. 1.30; a. tini zêtein Aristot. Pol. 1341b30, cf. ti=Aristot. Poet. 1454b5; also oute apologias apodotheisês Andoc. 4.3; epeidan autois ho logos apodothê when right of speech is allowed them, Aeschin. 3.54.

    5. a. tina with an Adj., render or make so and so, like apodeiknumi, a. tên terpsin bebaioteran
    Isoc. 1.46; teleion a. to teknon Arist.GA733b1; dei tas energeias poias a. IDEM=Aristot. Nic. Eth. 1103b22; metriôteran tên huperêphanian D.H.7.16.

    6. deliver over, give up, e.g. as a slave,
    Eur. Cycl. 239; a. ton miaron tô chronôi phênai Antiph. 4.4.11.

    7. a. epistolên deliver a letter,
    Thuc. 7.10, cf. Eur. IT 745.

    8. a. ton agôna orthôs kai kalôs bring it to a conclusion,
    Lyc. 1.149.

    9. logon a. render an account,
    Dem. 27.48:--

  • Pass., marturiai a. Test.ap.D.18.137.

    10. a. horkon, v. horkos.


    11. give an account or definition of a thing, explain it,
    Eur. Orest. 150; a. ti esti ti Arist.Cat.2b8, cf. au=Arist. Cat. 1a10, ti=Aristot. Met. 1040b30, al.; hepomenôs toutois a. tên psuchên IDEM=Arist.de.An.au=Aristot. Met. 405a4, cf. ti=Arist. Ph.194b34, al.; also, use by way of definition, ho men tên hulên apodidôsin, ho de to eidos IDEM=Arist.de An.403b1; simply, define, ton anthrôpon S.E.M.7.272; expound, Phld.D.3.14, cf. Epicur.Nat.14.3, 119G., au=Epicur. Nat. 14.143=lr G.; render, interpret one word by another, a. tên kotulên aleison Ath.11.479c; explain, interpret, to "phônên haimatos boan" Ph.1.209:--

  • Pass., beltion apodothêsetai Epicur.Ep.1 P.au=Epicur. Ep. 15 U.; akribesterôs apodothêsetai A.D.Synt.45.21; a. ti pros ti use with reference to, Olymp.in Mete.281.10, cf. Sch.Aristoph. Pl. 538.

    12. attach or append, make dependent upon, ti tini or eis ti Hero Aut.24.5, au=Hero Aut. 24.6=lr, au=Hero Aut. 24.2=lr.


    13. a. ti tinos assign a property to a thing, Arist.Top.128b28.


    II. intr., return, recur, IDEM=Arist.GA722a8, ti=Arist. HA585b32.


    III. Med., give away of one's own will, sell,
    Aristoph. Birds 585, Hdt. 1.70, etc.; a. ti es tên Hellada take to Greece and sell it there, IDEM=Hdt. 2.56: c. gen. pretii, Aristoph. Ach. 830, ti=Aristoph. Peace 1237; ouk an apedomên pollou tas elpidas Plat. Phaedo 98b; a. tês axias, tou heuriskontos, sell for its worth, for what it will fetch, Aeschin. 1.96; hotan tis oiketên ponêron pôlê (= offer for sale) kai apodôtai tou heurontos Xen. Mem. 2.5.5, cf. Thphr. Char.15.4; didousi [tas neas] pentadrachmous apodomenoi Hdt. 6.89; a. eisangelian sell, i.e. take a bribe to forgo, the information, Dem. 25.47; hoi drachmês an apodomenoi tên polin Xen. Hell. 2.3.48; at Athens, esp. farm out the public taxes, Dem. 20.60, opp. ôneomai: metaph., hoion pros arguron tên doxan tas psuchas Jul.Or.1.42b:--

  • Act. and Med. are distinguished in Lex ap.Andoc. 1.97 panta apodomenos ta hêmisea apodôsô tôi apokteinanti: but Act. is used in med. sense in Thuc. 6.62 (s.v.l.), cf. Foed.Delph.Pell. 2 ti=Foed.Delph.Pell. A 22, and possibly in Eur. Cycl. 239, Aristoph. Frogs 1235: Med. for Act. in Antipho Fr.54:--

  • Pass., to be sold, Hsch.