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ἡγέομαι,
Doric dialect ἁγ- (irregular present participle ἁγώμενος [[ “Hymnus Curetum [3rd c.BC (?)]” 4), ] Refs]imperfect ἡγούμην[[ lines12.28, etc.] Refs], Ionic dialect -εύμην[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115, ἡγέοντο [prev. author] 9.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ἡγήσομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.374, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἡγησάμην [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.48, etc.: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 1 ἡγήθην[[ in _passive_ sense, “PGiss.” 48.20 (3rd c.AD) (compare περιηγ-)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: perfect ἥγημαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126, 2.115, ἅγημαι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.248 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—go before, lead the way, ὣς εἰπὼν ἡγεῖθ᾽, ἡ δ᾽ ἕσπετο Παλλὰς 'Αθήνη [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.125; ἂν πάϊς ἡγήσαιτο νήπιος 6.300, etc.; πρόσθεν δὲ.. Ἶρις ἡγεῖτ᾽ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.96; ἡγοῦ πάροιθε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 834; ἡ. ἐπὶ νῆα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.65; ἐς τεῖχος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.144; κλισίηνδε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14. 48, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.93, etc.; ἡγησόμενος οὐδεὶς ἔσται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Astron., precede in the daily movement, [[ 4th c.BC: Autolycus Astronomus 2.3, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b with dative person, Τρωσὶ ποτὶ πτόλιν ἡγήσασθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.101; ἐκ Δουλιχίου.. ἡγεῖτο μνηστῆρσι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.397; οἱ γὰρ βλέποντες τοῖς τυφλοῖς ἡγούμεθα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 15; ἡ. τοῖς πολίταις πρὸς ἀρετήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.2. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __c with ὁδόν added, ὁδὸν ἡγήσασθαι to go before on the way, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.263; ἡ. τινὶ τὴν ὁδόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.15. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__d with accusative loci, ἥ οἱ.. πόλιν ἡγήσαιτο who might guide him to the city, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.114, compare 7.22, 15.82; ἡ. βωμοὺς ἀστικούς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 501. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__e ἅρματα ἡ. drive chariots, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.23. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__f of logical priority, to be antecedent, opposed to ἕπεσθαι, [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.71, 88, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.110, +others, 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 241, 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis libros de Generatione et Corruptione commentaria - pars” 195.13, “in Ph.” 496.14. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__g ἡγούμενον, τό, the leading principle, the main thing, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 63.14, compare 3rd c.BC(?): Sosipater Comicus 1.47. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 with dative person et genitive of things, to be one's leader in a thing, θεῖος ἀοιδὸς.. ἡμῖν ἡγείσθω.. ὀρχηθμοῖο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.134 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ. τινὶ σοφίας, ᾠδῆς, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” [same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.125d; ἀλήθεια δὴ πάντων μὲν ἀγαθῶν θεοῖς ἡγεῖται πάντων δὲ ἀνθρώποις [prev. author] “Lg.” 730c; ἡ. τοῦ χοροῦ Πέρσαις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.1, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 313:] Refs 5th c.BC+] with genitive _of things_, ἁ. νόμων to lead the song, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.25; φρόνησις ἡ. τοῦ ὀρθῶς πράττειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 97c; ἡ. παντὸς καὶ λόγου καὶ ἔργου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.3.15: also, τὸ ὀρθῶς τοῖς τοιούτοις χρῆσθαι ἐπιστήμη ἦν ἡγουμένη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 281a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 with dative of things, to be leader in.. , κερδοσύνῃ, νηπιέῃσι ἡ. τινί, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.247, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.469. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__4 with accusative of things, lead, conduct, ἡ. τὰς πομπάς [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.174 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν ἀποδημίαν (variant for{ᾐτήσατο}) [[ 4th c.BC: Dinon Historicus 7; τὰς τύχας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 226 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with adverbial accusative, ἡ γλῶσσα πάνθ᾽ ἡγουμένη [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 99. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 participle ἡγούμενος, η, ον, as adjective, σκέλη ἡγούμενα, opposed to ἑπόμενα, the front legs, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 713b6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ἡ. πούς the advanced foot, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 74. ] Refs]
__II lead, command in war, with dative, νῆες θοαί, ᾗσιν 'Αχιλλεὺς ἐς Τροίην ἡγεῖτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.169, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.238 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐ γὰρ ἔην ὅς τίς σφιν ἐπὶ στίχας ἡγήσαιτο might lead them to their ranks, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.687; ἡ. Τρώεσσιν ἐς Ἴλιον 5.211; ἡ. Μῄοσιν 2.864; λόγχαισιν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1360; ἑτέροις 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.17, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.6; ἐν ταῖς στρατείαις, αἷς ἡγεῖται βασιλεύς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.180: also generally, πόλει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 282.24; but usually with _genitive_, Σαρπηδὼν δ᾽ ἡγήσατ᾽.. ἐπικούρων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.101; ἡγήσατο λαῶν 15.311, compare 2.567, +others; ἡ. τῆς ἐξόδου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.10; ἡγούμενος τῶν ἡδονῶν ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἀγόμενος ὑπ᾽ αὐτῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.45 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, to be in command, [[ [prev. author] 16.21, etc. ] Refs]
__II.2 rule, have dominion, with genitive, τῆς 'Ασίης, τῆς συμμαχίης, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95, 7.148; οἱ Θεσσαλίης ἡγεόμενοι [prev. author] 9.1: _absolutely_, οἱ ἡγούμενοι] Refs 5th c.BC+] the rulers, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 386, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1363; ἡ. ἐν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς ] Refs 5th c.BC+]leading men, [[ NT.Acts.15.22 ] NT]; ἡ. σχολῆς to be the head of a philosophical school, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Acad. Ind.” p.107 M., +others ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.3 as official title, ἡγούμενος, ὁ, president, συνόδου [[ “PGrenf.” 2.67.3 (3rd c.AD); γερδίων [prev. work] 43.9 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἱερέων [[ “PLond.” 2.281.2 (1st c.AD): _absolutely_, “PFay.” 110.26 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.3.b of Roman governors, ἡ. ἔθνους,= Latin praeses provinciae, [[ POxy. 1020.5 (2nd-3rd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἡ. τῆς Γαλατίας [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 44. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3.c of subordinate officials, ἡ. τοῦ στρατηγοῦ [[ “POxy.” 294.19 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; κώμης [[ “PRyl.” 125.3 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.3.d abbot, [[ 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 7.1, +others: _feminine_ -μένη] Refs 6th c.AD+] abbess, [[[prev. passage] ] Refs]
__II.4 ἡγούμενος as adjective, principal, πυλών [[ “PFlor.” 382.15 (3rd c.AD), “POxy.” 55.9 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__III post-[[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], believe, hold, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (usually in _perfect_ ἥγημαι, _3rd.pers._ _plural_ ἡγέαται)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; ἡ. τι εἶναι [[ [prev. author] 1.126, +others; ἡγεῖσθε δὲ [θεοὺς] βλέπειν.. πρὸς τὸν εὐσεβῆ βροτῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 278, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1020 (Lyric poetry), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 with an attributive word added, ἡ. τινὰ βασιλέα hold or regard as king, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.52; μηδ᾽ αὐθαδίαν εὐβουλίας ἀμείνον᾽ ἡγήσῃ ποτέ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1035; ἅπαντας ἐχθροὺς τῶν θεῶν ἡγοῦ πλέον [prev. author] “Ch.” 902, compare 905 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ. τἄλλα πάντα δεύτερα to hold everything else secondary, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1442 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ αἰσχρὸν ἡγῇ.. τὰ ψευδῆ λέγειν[[; [prev. work] 108, compare “Ant.” 1167; τὰς τούτων ἀπορίας ἀντιπάλους ἡ. τῷ ἡμετέρῳ πλήθει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.10; περὶ πολλοῦ ἥγημαι μὴ ξεινοκτονέειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.115; περὶ πλείονος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 19.10; περὶ πλείστου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89; περὶ οὐδενός 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρ᾽ οὐδέν Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.164 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: with participle, πᾶν κέρδος ἡγοῦ ζημιουμένη φυγῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 454. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.3 especially of belief in gods, τὴν μεγίστην δαίμονα ἥγηνται εἶναι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40, compare 3.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ. θεούς to believe in gods, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 32, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 800, “Ba.” 1326; δαίμονας ἡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 27d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.4 ἡγοῦμαι δεῖν think fit, deem necessary, with infinitive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.23, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.20: without δεῖν, παθεῖν μᾶλλον ἡγησάμενοι ἤ.. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.42 (assuming variant); ἡγησάμην διατάγματι αὐτοὺς σωφρονίσαι “Inscription Magn.” 114 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡγήσατο ἐπαινέσαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 346b ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__IV perfect in passive sense, τὰ ἁγημένα,= τὰ νομιζόμενα, Oracle texts cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.66 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡγεόμενον being led, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14 (ἀγόμενον Dind.): hence _active_ form ἡγέω, Hdn.Gr. 2.950 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (sāg-, cf. Latin praesagio.)
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