ἐπιστέλλω,
send to, γράψας ἐς βυβλίον τάδε ἐπέστειλε ἐς Σάμον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40; τοῖσι Ἕλλησι [prev. author] 7.239; ἡδίω.. ἂν εἶχον ὑμῖν.. ἐπιστέλλειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.14; ἐ. ἐπιστολάς τινι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.37, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 363b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; send a message, τάδε [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 770 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially by letter, write word, τοιαῦτα [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περί τινος ὡς ἀδικοῦντος [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.38; ἐ. ὅτι.. [prev. work] 50, 99 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐπισταλέντα ἐκ τῆς Σάμου the news received from Samos,[[ [prev. work] 50; τὰ ὑπό τινος ἐπεσταλμένα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Artoxerxes” 21. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2. enjoin, command, τισί τι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸν ἄγγελον ἐπιστείλας ταῦτα ἔπεμψε [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.32; τινὶ περί τινος [prev. work] 4.5.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: c.infinitive, ἐ. τινὶ ἀπίστασθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.3; τινὶ ἐκμαθεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 863 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ Κῦρος αὐτῷ ἐπέστελλε πρὸς Πέρσας λέγειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐ. τινὰ ποιεῖν τι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 106, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: without any case, give orders to do, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 205, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.72, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; give orders in writing, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 24.13:] Refs 4th c.BC+] — passive, ἔφη οὐδέν οἱ ἐπεστάλθαι ἄλλο ἢ ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι he had received orders to.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.131; καί μοι ἐκ βασιλέος ὧδε ἐπέσταλται [prev. author] 6.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἷς ἐπέσταλται τέλος to whom the office has been committed, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 908, compare “Eu.” 743; τἀπεσταλμένα [prev. author] “Ch.” 779; κατὰ τὰ ἐ. ὑπὸ Δημοσθένους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀξιῶ ἐπισταλῆναί τισι c.infinitive, [[ “PRyl.” 121.13 (2nd c.AD): with personal construction, ταῦτα ἐπεσταλμένοι] Refs 2nd c.AD+] having received these instructions, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in later writers, usually of orders given in writing, [[ NT.Act.15.20, 21.25, “SIG” 837.14 (2nd c.AD)] NT+2nd c.AD+], etc.; of orders for payment, [[ “POxy.” 1304 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]