ἐπαιν-έω,
Aeolic dialect ἐπαίνημι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 5.19 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Laconian dialect ἐπαινίω [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 198: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]imperfect ἐπῄνεον Il [[ 3.461 (tmesis)] Refs]: future -έσω[[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.29, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1057, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 465 (Lyric poetry), “Heracl.” [300], 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 214e (uncertain reading), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.4.16, 5.5.8 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]: but more frequently -έσομαι[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1195 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 199a, “R.” 379e, 383a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.6, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.31, etc.;] Refs 5th c.BC+] poetry -ήσω [[6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 93 codices, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.69 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἐπῄνεσα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 536, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.86, etc. (see. below); poetry (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.335, 18.312, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 876, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.168, 189 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: also Aeolic dialect prose, [[ “Schwyzer” 622.21, 623.31, 636.17 (but -έσαι 623.34)] Refs]: perfect ἐπῄνεκα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.207,261, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 307a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, aorist ἐπῃνησάμην [[ 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 16.200c ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; -εσάμην [[3rd-2nd c.BC: Phalaris Epistolographus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 147 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—passive, future ἐπαινεθήσομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 474d; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 4.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] codices: aorist ἐπῃνέθην [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.146, etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην “SIG” 708.20 (Istropolis, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἐπῄνημαι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 51, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.233: ={αἰνέω} (for which it is regularly used in _Attic dialect_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—approve, applaud, commend, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus mostly _absolutely_, ἐπὶ δ᾽ ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.461, etc.: with _accusative_ _of things_, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος 2.335; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι “hymnus ad Mercurium” 457; σύνθεσιν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.168 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with dative person, agree with, side with, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.312 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, assent, agree, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1616 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπαινεσάντων δ᾽ αὐτῶν on their assent, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.65. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]