ἑρμην-εύω,
Doric dialect ἑρμᾱνεύω [[ “SIG” 1168.88 (Epid.)] Refs], interpret foreign tongues, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; translate, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 49, etc.; ἀπὸ Πωμαϊκῶν “PRyl.” 62.30 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 1st c.BC+]:—passive, Ἑλληνιστί [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.12, cf. LXX.Job.42.17, etc. ] LXX+1st c.BC+]
__II explain, expound, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 398, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 636.5, etc.; ὑμῖν ταῦτα 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.2.1; ὅ τι λέγει 5th c.BC: Philyllius Comicus 11; τὰ τῶν ποιητῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 535a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, [[ [prev. author] “Epin.” 985b ] Refs]:— passive, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 166b11. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.2 put into words, express, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 966b, etc.; τι διά τινος 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 2.5; τι πεζῶς [prev. author] “Meth.” 30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 25. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.3 describe, write about, τὸν Νεῖλον [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 121. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III absolutely, speak clearly, articulate, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.74. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]