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κτάομαι,
Ionic dialect κτέομαι, only as variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.112 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future κτήσομαι [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 6.4, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 200, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 289, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 417a, etc. (in _passive_ sense, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.9.15, assuming variant); κεκτήσομαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1022, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 514, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 467a (ἐκτήσομαι in “La.” 192e, and probably in 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 110.4): ] Refs 7th c.BC+]aorist ἐκτησάμην, Epic dialect κτ-, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.4, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Pae.” 2.59, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect κέκτημαι [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 437, etc., ἔκτημαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.402, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 795, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.44, and sometimes in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus (κεκτῄμεθα and ἐκτῆσθαι] Refs 8th c.BC+] in following lines, [[ “R.” 505b, ἐκτῆσθαι τοῦ κεκτῆσθαι ἕνεκα “Tht.” 198d)] Refs]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐκτέαται [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; subjunctive κέκτωμαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 936b; _optative_ κεκτῄμην, ῇτο, [prev. work] 731c, 742e, κεκτῴμην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 282 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] codices: pluperfect ἐκεκτήμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.74, 4.41, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.17, etc.; poetry κεκτήμην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 404 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἔκτηντο [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.108 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Attic dialect 1st pers. plural ἐκτήμεθα falsa lectio in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: for future and aorist passive, see below[[ 111. ] Refs]
__I present, imperfect, future, and aorist,
__I.1 procure for oneself, get, acquire, κτήμασι τέρπεσθαι τὰ γέρων ἐκτήσατο Πηλεύς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.400, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [οἰκῆας] Od.[same place]; γῆν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eu.” [same place], compare “Pers.” 770 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of horses, win (as a prize), [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κτήσασθαι βίον ἀπό τινος to get one's living from a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; win favour, and the like, χάριν ἀπό τινος, ἔκ τινος, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 471, “Ph.” 1370; παρά τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.43; τὴν εὔνοιαν τὴν παρὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. φίλους, ἑταίρους, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1360, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 804 (troch.); κτήσασθαι παῖδας ἐξ ὁμοσπόρου [prev. author] “IT” 696, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1499, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.105; παῖδας ἐς δόμους κτήσασθαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 491, compare “Supp.” 225; πολλάκις δοκεῖ τὸ φυλάξαι τἀγαθὰ τοῦ κτήσασθαι χαλεπώτερον εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.23. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.1.b of consequences, bring upon oneself, αὑτῷ θάνατον [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 968 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; incur, θεᾶς ὀργήν[[ [prev. work] 777; κακά [prev. author] “El.” 1004; ξυμφοράς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 543; ἔχθραν πρός τινα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δυσσέβειαν κ. get a name for impiety, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 924; κακὸν λόγον πρὸς ἀστῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 166, compare “IT” 676; ἐκ τῶν πόνων τὰς ἀρετὰς κ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.123. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.1.c κ. τινὰς πολεμίους make them so, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.17; οὔ ποτ᾽ εὔνουν τὴν ἐμὴν κτήσῃ φρένα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1281. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 procure or get for another, ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἐκτήσατο κεῖνος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20. 265; μέγαν τέκνοις πλοῦτον ἐκτήσω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 755 (troch.), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 15.1. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II in perfect and pluperfect with future κεκτήσομαι, to have acquired, i.e. possess, hold (opposed to χρῆσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 28o d), οὐδ᾽ ὅσα φασὶν Ἴλιον ἐκτῆσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.402, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 260b; ὅπλα μὴ ἐκτῆσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.155, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 778; στρατὸν πλεῖστον ἐκτημένοι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.161; κοινὸν ὄμμ᾽ ἐκτημέναι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 795 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φωνὴν βάρβαρον κεκτ. [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 1051; κεκτ. τινὰ σύμμαχον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1343; κ. κάλλος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.8; ἀρετήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 340e; τέχνην 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποίησιν to be master of it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 829c: uncertain in ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist, ἀγορὰς κτησάμενοι having market-places, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.153 (to be read στησάμενοι): with _impersonal_ subject, πραγμάτων ἀγῶνας κεκτημένων] Refs 5th c.BC+] involving effort, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—the differentbetween present and perfect appears from [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.6.3, ἃ [χρήματα] καὶ κτωμένους εὐφραίνει καὶ κεκτημένους.. ποιεῖ ζῆν] Refs 5th c.BC+]: later, present in perfect sense, [[ NT.Luke.18.12. ] NT]
__II.b of evils, ἄγος κεκτήσεται θεῶν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1022; κακά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 272; φθόνον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 870c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.c have in store, opposed to ἔχω, have in hand, ready for use, ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος.. κακά [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1278; ἔχειν τε καὶ κεκτῆσθαι τὸ ψεῦδος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 382b. compare “Tht.” 197b, 198d, “Cra.” 393b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἱμάτιον own, opposed to ἔχειν (wear), [[ [prev. author] “Tht.” 197b. ] Refs]
__II.d absolutely, to be a property-owner, τῶν ἐκτημένων ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ [[ “SIG” 633.73 (Milet., 2nd c.BC), compare 888.15 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 ὁ κεκτημένος owner, master (especially of slaves), as substantive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 4, etc.; οἱ κ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 337 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a husband, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 715 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ κεκτημένη my mistress, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 762, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1126, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 61, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Phrynichus Comicus 48. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III aorist 1 passive ἐκτήθην in passive sense, to be gotten, ἃ ἐκτήθη [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.123, 2.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be obtained as property, δουλόσυνος πρὸς οἶκον κτηθεῖσα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 449 (Lyric poetry), compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 10.27, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future κτηθήσομαι [[ LXX “Je.” 39 (32). 43. ] Refs](active κτάω[[ very late, “PLond.” 1.77 (6th c.AD).) ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
