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κατασκευ-άζω,
future -σκευάσω, Attic dialect -σκευῶ [[“SIG” 1097.9 ] Refs] (Athens, [[4th c.BC), “IPE” 12.32 B 53 (Olbia, 3rd c.BC): _Doric dialect_ ] Refs 4th c.BC+] aorist -εσκεύαξα Ti. Locrian dialect94d, [[“Test.Epict.” 1.14, also κατεσκέαξα “Africa Italiana” 1.330 (from Cyrene): _Boeotian dialect_ ] Refs] aorist infinitive -σκευάττη [[“SIG” 1185.13 ] Refs] (Tanagra, 3rd c.BC): perfect -εσκεύᾰκα [[4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 42.30 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: future middle 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person singular -ᾶται [[“SIG” 1015.28 ] Refs] (Halic.): Doric dialect aorist middle -εσκευαξάμην [[“Test.Epict.” 1.9 ] Refs]:—equip, furnish fully with.. , [πᾶσι] κ. τὸ πλοῖον with all appliances, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.194:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —middle, τοὺς ἵππους Χαλκοῖς.. προβλήμασι κ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cyr.” 6.1.51:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —frequently in passive, [[ ἱρὸν θησαυροῖσί τε καὶ ἀναθήμασι κατεσκευασμένον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.33, compare 2.44; κατασκευὴ Χρυσῶ τε καὶ ἀργύρω κατεσκ. [prev\. author] 9.82; οἷς ἡ Χώρα κατεσκεύασται 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.91 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__2 without dative, furnish, equip fully, [[ τὴν Χώραν Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Anabasis” 1.9.19; κ. τινὰ ἐπὶ στρατιάν [prev\. author] “Cyr.” 3.3.3 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; [ἐλέφαντας] [[ κ. πρὸς τὴν πολεμικὴν Χρείαν “OGI” 54.12 ] Refs] (Adule, 3rd c.BC):—middle, κ. τοὺς ὄνους having got his asses ready, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121.δ, etc.:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, [[ τῆς Ἀντάνδρου μελλούσης -σκευάζεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.75, compare 8.24; ἔργα -ασμένα] Refs 5th c.BC+] cultivated farms, [[ 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] 4; of persons, to be under treatment, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Lib.” p.3 O., +others ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __3 construct, build, [[ γέφυραν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.186 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (passive); [[ διδασκαλεῖον 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.11; πόλιν Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Respublica” 557d; γυμνάσια [prev\. author] “Lg.” 761c ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἱερὰ θυσίας τε αὑτοῖς κ. [[ [prev\. author] “Criti.” 113c; ἐπιτείχισμ᾽ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀττικήν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.71 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: generally, prepare, arrange, establish, [[ κ. δημοκρατίαν Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.36; δύναμιν τῇ πόλει Andocides Orator [{5-6th c.BC}] 3.39; συμπόσιον Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Respublica” 363c; ἰσότητα τῆς οὐσίας [prev\. author] “Lg.” 684d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Pol.” 1265a39; ὀλιγαρχίαν [prev\. author] “Ath.” 37.1; ναύτας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.36 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; κ. τινὰς μελέτῃ train them, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cyr.” 8.1.43 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; turn out, [[ πολιτικούς 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.264 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, +others:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, κατασκευάζεσθαι ναυμαχίαν prepare it, make ready for it, variant for{παρασκ-} in [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.85 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; make for oneself, especially build a house and furnish it, opposed to [[ ἀνασκευάζομαι [prev\. author] 1.93, 2.17 ] Refs]; unpack, opposed to ἀνασκ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cyr.” 8.5.2; κ. ἐρημίαν αὑτῶ Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Leges” 730c ] Refs 6th c.BC+], etc.; κ. τράπεζαν set up a bank, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator “fragment” 66; κατασκευάζομαι τέχνην μυρεψικήν] Refs 4th c.BC+] I am setting up as a perfumer, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “fragment” 1.2; τοὺς ἐγγυτάτω τῆς ἀγορᾶς κατεσκευασμένους [prev\. author] 24.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [πρόσοδον] οὐ μικρὰν κατεσκευάσαντο made themselves a good [income], [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.61, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 of fraudulent transactions, fabricate, trump up, [[ πρόφασιν Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.17; τὸ ἀπόρρητον κατασκευάσαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.6; λιποταξίου γραφὴν κατεσκεύασεν [prev\. author] 21.103, compare92; Χρέα ψευδῆ [prev\. author] 42.30, compare 45.22 (_passive_)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; of persons, suborn, [[ λογοποιούς Dinarchus Orator [{4-3rd c.BC}] 1.35 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; set up, [[ ἢ.. ἐπιτίθενται αὐτοὶ ἢ κατασκευάζουσιν ἕτερον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1306a1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ κατεσκευασμένοι τῶν Θετταλῶν men prepared for the purpose, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.151; κατεσκ. δανεισταί [prev\. author] 42.28 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: with infinitive, [[ τὸν ἀνεψιὸν.. κατεσκεύασεν ἀμφισβητεῖν [prev\. author] 55.1 ] Refs].
__5 with double accusative, make, render, [φρούρια] [[ κ. ὡς ἐχυρώτατα Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.17 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἀριστερὰ δεξιῶν ἀσθενέστερα κ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lg.” 795a; φοβερὸν κ. τὸ αὐτόχειρα γενέσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.158; ἀνομοθέτητον ἑαυτῶ τὸν βίον Duris Epigrammaticus [{4-3rd c.BC}] 10 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; κ. τινὰ τοιοῦτον.. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1380a2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (also with adverb, πρὸς ἑαυτὸν κ. εὖ τὸν ἀκροατήν render the audience favourably disposed towards oneself, [[ 1419b11). ] Refs]
__6 represent as so and so, κ. τινὰς παροίνους, ὑβριστάς, ἀγνώμονας, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.14, compare 45.82; εἰ μὴ Γοργίαν Νέστορά τινα κατασκευάζεις] Refs 4th c.BC+] unless you make out a Gorgias to be [[ 3rd c.AD: Nestor Epigrammaticus, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phdr.” 261c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__7 in argument, maintain, prove, τῶν ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ πραγμάτων.. ὡς ἐγὼ αἴτιός εἰμι, κατεσκεύαζε tried to make out that.., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.110; κ. ὅτι.. 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.15.14, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “P.” 1.32; κ. τῶ λόγῳ] Refs 4th c.BC+] establish a proposition by reasoning, [[ Damianus Opticus “Opt.” 5; διὰ λόγου -σκευασθήσεται 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 6 ] Refs 1st c.BC+].
__8 in Logic, construct a positive argument, opposed to ἀναιρέω, ἀνασκευάζω (of negative arguments), [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rh.” 1401b3, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1036b, etc.: Philos., κ. τῶν ἀριθμῶν ἰδέαν] Refs 4th c.BC+] construct, postulate, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “EN” 1096a19, compare “Metaphorical” 984b25, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__9 Geometry texts, construct, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 5.7 (_passive_), 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “Sph.Cyl.” 2.6 (_passive_)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; solve by a construction, [[ πρόβλημα 3rd c.AD: Pappus Mathematicus 54.25 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+].
__10 Rhet., frame, [[ ὀνόματα 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Comp.” 16 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; elaborate, [[ κατεσκεύασται τὸ δοκοῦν εἶναι ἀφελές [prev\. author] “Is.” 7; λόγος κατεσκευασμένος 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.2.6 ] Refs 1st c.BC+].
__11 absolutely in middle, prepare oneself or make ready for doing, [[ ὡς πολεμήσοντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.7; ὡς οἰκήσων Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Anabasis” 3.2.24; ὡς εἰς μάχην 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.21.14 ] Refs 6th c.BC+].
__12 passive, of disease, to become established, [[ -σκευαζομένου τοῦ πάθους 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.332 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+].
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