κῡρι-εύω,
to be lord or master of, πάντων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.22, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1160b35; τῆς Ἀσίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.5.11; μυρίων γῆς πήχεων 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 1099, compare “PEleph.” 14.14 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; τῶν γενημάτων [[ “PTeb.” 105.47 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τῆς θαλάττης [[ 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 5; ὧν ἁ πόλις.. κυριεύει “IG” 5(2).510.4 (4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κυριεύειν τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀνδρός [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.27; σανίδων 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Morte - Papiri Ercolanesi” 24; νεκρῶν καὶ ζώντων NT.Rom.14.9; κρατεῖν καὶ κ. “PStrassb.” 14.22 (3rd c.AD)] NT+1st c.BC+]; gain possession of, seize, ζωγρίᾳ τινῶν [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.7.11, +others, compare 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 80.41: later with _accusative_, τὰ σώματα καὶ τὴν βοῦν κ. “PGrenf.” 1.21.13 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τοῦ κυριεύοντος τὴν ὅλην οἰκουμένην [[ “PMag.Lond.” 121.838 ] Refs]: absolutely, to be dominant, [[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.244 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—passive, to be dominated, possessed, ὑπό τινος [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 838a10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__b Astrology texts, of planets, κ. τοῦ σχήματος [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 169, compare 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 63.23 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, οἱ -όμενοι τόποι [[ 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 112. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 to have legal power to do, with infinitive, Legal cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.35. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]