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δέχομαι,
Ionic dialect, Aeolic dialect, Cretan dialect δέκομαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.91, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 1.22, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.69 ] Refs 7th c.BC+], imperfect ἐδεκόμην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.135: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future δέξομαι, Epic dialect also δεδέξομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.238, also in “Anthologia Graeca” 5.8 (2nd-3rd c.AD: Rufinus Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 28(49).24; δεξοῦμαι “SIG” 360.29 (from Chersonesus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δεχθήσομαι (in passive sense) [[ LXX.Lev.22.25 ] LXX]: aorist ἐδεξάμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.238, etc., δεξάμην 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.70 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ἐδέχθην (ὑπ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 757 (Lyric poetry, δεχθείς in _passive_sense), 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 18.6.4, (εἰσ-) 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.14 (_passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect δέδεγμαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.107, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.100, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; imperative δεδεξο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.228, _plural_ δέδεχθε “hymnus ad Apollinem” 538 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἀπο-δεδέχαται [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.43, +others:— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] also has Epic dialect imperfect ἐδέγμην [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.513 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], 3rd.pers. singular δέκτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.88, +others, later ἔδεκτο 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.54, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 184; _imperative_ δέξο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.10, _plural_ δέχθε 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1554 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive δέχθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 525 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle δέγμενος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.524 (also δέχμενος 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also a 3rd.pers. plural present δέχαται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.147 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; compare προτίδεγμαι, and see at {δεδοκημένος}:—
__I of things as the object, take, accept, receive, etc., ἄποινα [[ 1.20, etc.; μισθὸν τῆς φυλακῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 416e; φόρον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.90; δ. τι χείρεσσι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.355; τὸ διδόμενον παρά τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 499c; τι ἐν παρακαταθήκῃ παρά τινος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 33.6.2, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δ. τί τινι receive something at the hand of another, δέξατό οἱ σκῆπτρον πατρώϊον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.186, compare “IG” 12(3).1075(Melos, 6th c.BC), etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; accept as legal tender, ὀδελός [[ “GDI” 5011 (from Gortyn)] Refs]; τι παρά τινος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.429; τι ἔκ τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1107 (Lyric poetry); τί τινος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.596, 24.305, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1163 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also δ. τί τινος receive in exchange for.., χρυσὸν φίλου ἀνδρὸς ἐδέξατο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.327 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; choose, τι δ. πρό τινος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 729d; μᾶλλον δ. τι ἀντί τινος [prev. author] “Grg.” 475d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, prefer, δεξαίμην ἂν πάσας τὰς ἀσπίδας ἐρριφέναι ἢ.. [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.21, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 63b; δ. μᾶλλον.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.1.14, “Smp.” 4.12; οὐδεὶς ἂν δέξαιτο φεύγειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.143; Ὀρφεῖ συγγενέσθαι ἐπὶ πόσῳ ἄν τις δέξαιτ᾽ ἂν ὑμῶ; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 41a; οὐκ ἂν δεξαίμην τι ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.b catch, as in a vessel, ὀπὸν.. κάδοις δ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 534.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of mental reception, take, accept without complaint, χαλεπόν περ ἐόντα δεχώμεθα μῦθον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.271; κῆρα δ᾽ ἐγὼ τότε δέξομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.115. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.2.b accept graciously, τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐγὼ πρόφρων δ. [[ 23.647 ] Refs]; of the gods, ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γε δέκτο μὲν ἱρά [[ 2.420 ] Refs]; προσφιλῶς γέρα δ., of one dead, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 443; τὰ σφάγια δ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 204, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.86 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ χρησθέν, τὸν οἰωνὸν δ., accept, hail the oracle, the omen, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.63, 9.91; δέχου τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τὸν ὄρνιν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 63; δ. τὰ ἀγαθά “IG” 22.410, +others; ἐδεξάμην τὸ ῥηθέν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 668: _absolutely_, δεχομένοις λέγεις θανεῖν σε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1653, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; accept, approve, τὸν λόγον, ξυμμαχίαν, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.5, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.37; τοὺς λόγους [prev. work] 95 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διδόναι καὶ δέχεσθαι τὰ δίκαια[[ [prev. work] 37, compare “hymnus ad Mercurium” 312 ] Refs]; δέχεσθαι ὅρκον, see at {ὅρκος}; accept a confession, and so forgive, ἀδικίαν [[ LXX.Gen.50.17. ] LXX]
__I.2.c simply, give ear to, hear, ὠσὶν ἠχήν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1086; δ. ὀμφάν [prev. author] “Med.” 175 (Lyric poetry); τὰ παραγγελλόμενα ὀξέως δ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.11, 89. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2.d take or regard as so and so, μηδὲ συμφορὰν δέχου τὸν ἄνδρα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; understand in a certain sense, ὅπῃ βούλει δέξασθαι ταύτῃ δέχου [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 315c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, κῶλά με δέξαι νυνὶ λέγειν [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.3.13, etc. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__I.2.e cap verses, σκόλια δ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1222. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.3 take upon oneself, τὴν δαπάνην [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 31.28.5 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: with infinitive, undertake, [[ “SIG” 245.34. ] Refs]
__II of persons as the object, welcome, κόλπῳ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.483; ἀγαθῷ νόῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν μεγάροισι, ἐν δόμοισιν, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.331, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.110; δόμοις δ. τινά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 818 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; στέγαις, πυρὶ δ. τινά, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 47; δ. χώρᾳ [prev. author] “Med.” 713 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῇ τόλει δ. to admit into the city, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀγορᾷ, ἄστει δ., [[ [prev. author] 6.44; ἔσω [prev. passage]; εἰς τὸ τεῖχος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. τινὰ ξύμμαχον accept or admit as an ally, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.43, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; accept as security, [[ PGrenf. 1.33.4, etc.: _metaphorically_ of places, τόποι τοὺς κατοικιζομένους ἵλεῳ δεχόμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 747e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; entertain, δείπνοις [[ 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 41.2 (_anapaest meter_); δωρήμασιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 receive as an enemy, await the attack of, ἐπιόντα δ. δουρί [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.238, compare 15.745 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a hunter waiting for game, [[ 4.107 ] Refs]; of a wild boar waiting for the hunters, [[ 12.147 ] Refs]; of troops, εἰς χεῖρας δ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.31; τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους δ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.54, compare 8.28, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.43; ἐπιόντας δ. [prev. author] 7.77; δ. τὴν πρώτην ἔφοδον [prev. author] 4.126; ἐδέξατο πόλις πόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 393. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 expect, wait, with accusative et future infinitive, ἀλλ᾽ αἰεί τινα φῶτα.. ἐδέγμην ἐνθάδ᾽ ἐλεύσεσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.513, compare 12.230; also δέγμενος Αἰακίδην, ὁπότε λήξειεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.191; δεδεγμένος εἰσόκεν ἔλθῃς 10.62.] Refs 8th c.BC+]—In these two last senses, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus always uses ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future δεδέξομαι, perfect δέδεγμαι, and δεδεγμένος,[[compare δεδεγμένος ὁππόθ᾽ ἵκοιτο 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.228; δέγμενος is used in sense 3 only, except in “hymnus ad Cererem” 29, “Merc.” 477: ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]infinitive δειδέχθαι as imperative, expect, with genitive, βορέω [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 795, compare 907, 928. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III rarely with a thing as the subject, occupy, engage one, τίς ἀρχὰ δέξατο ναυτιλίας [αὐτούς]; [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.70. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 receive, hold, τὴν τροφήν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 531a23, +others; οἰκίαι ἱκαναὶ δέξασθαι ὑμᾶς “SIG” 344.10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.3 admit of, ψεῦδος οὐδὲν δ. ἁ τῶ ἀριθμῶ φύσις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus 11; τὸ μᾶλλον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 146a3, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.4 Geometry texts, contain, circum-scribe, γωνίας ἴσας [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 3 “Def.” 11; πεντάγωνον 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 422.34. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__IV intransitive, succeed, come next, ὥς μοι δέχεται κακὸν ἐκ κακοῦ αἰεί [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.290; ἄλλος γ᾽ ἐξ ἄλλου δέχεται χαλεπώτερος ἆθλος 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 800; ἄλλος ἐξ ἄλλου δ. 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 115.12 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of places, ἐκ τοῦ στεινοῦ τὸ Ἀρτεμίσιον δέκεται [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.176. (δέκομαι] Refs 5th c.BC+] is probably the original form, cf. Slavonic desiti, dositi 'find'.)
