:—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
Hdt. 1.109 , X. Eq. 8.7 , etc.; alsoὑ. τινί τι serveone in a thing, οἷς σὺ ταῦθ' ὑπηρετεῖς
S. Ph. 1024
, cf. Ar. Pl. 979 , Pl. Smp. 196c , X. Cyr. 5.1.20 , D. 18.138 , 59.35 .
b. 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.
c. at Athens,serve as ὑπηρέτηςof the Council, D. 19.70 .
d. in the Mithraic cult,to be a ὑπηρέτηςorservitor,
Rev.Hist.Rel. 109.63 (Rome).
e. render military service, BGU 180.14 , 613.23 (bothii A. D.).
4. abs.,serve, be subordinate,opp.προστάττω,
Arist. Top. 129a13 ; ἡ ὑπηρετοῦσα ἐπιστήμη
Id. Metaph. 982b5
: c. neut. pl. ofAdj., etc.,τὰ λοίφ' ὑ. help inwhat 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
Hdt. 4.139
;χρὴ σὴ τό γε ἐμὸν ὑπηρετέεσθαι thatmyservice should be rendered,
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 -ούμενονtheretinue,
Memn. 2.4 ;fut.
-ήσομαι
POxy. 58.24
(iii A. D.); but in S. El. 1306 ,ὑπηρετοίηνwas rightly restored by Musgrave and Elmsl. for-οίμην.