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future λήψομαι (λήψω only late, variant in [[ LXX.1Mac.4.18)] LXX]; Ionic dialect λάψομαι [[ “GDI” 5497.3, +others (Milet., 4th-3rd c.BC), 5597.11 (Ephesus, 3rd c.BC), corrupted to λάμψομαι in Mss. of 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialectfuture 2nd pers. singular λαψῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 34.2, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.4, 10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], infinitive λαμψεῖσθαι [[ “PSI” 9.1091.19; Hellenistic λήμψομαι “PPar.” 14.47 (2nd c.BC), “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 4224c (add.) (from Telmessus), 4244 (from Tlos), +others: ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]aorist 2 ἔλᾰβον, Epic dialect ἔλλᾰβον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.170, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect Iterat. λάβεσκον [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 112, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.78, 130; _imperative_ λαβέ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.407, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; written λάβε in middle Ms. of [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 130, but λαβέ] Refs 4th c.BC+] Attic dialectaccusative to [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus Gr. 1.431 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: perfect εἴληφα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 643, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 591 (Lyric poetry), etc. (uncertain in 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 143)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect, Doric dialect, [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus λελάβηκα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.79, “IG” 42(1).121.68 (Epid., 4th c.BC), 5(2).6.14 (Tegea, 4th c.BC), also 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 426 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive λελαβήκειν [[ “IG” 42(1).121.59 (Epid.), “PSI” 9.1091.7 ] Refs]: pluperfect εἰλήφειν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.88, _Ionic dialect__3rd.pers._ _sing._ λελαβήκεε variant in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (κατα-); Doric dialect perfect subjunctive 3rd.pers. singular (παρ-) λελόνβῃ [[ “GDI” 5087b1 (from Crete):] Refs] —middle, aorist 2 ἐλαβόμην, Epic dialect ἐλλ-, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.325, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect reduplicate λελαβέσθαι [[ 4.388 ] Refs]:—passive, future ληφθήσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 68, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.91, κατα-λελήψομαι 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 54p.677D. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐλήφθην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 101, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect ἐλάφθην [[ “SIG” 58.8 (Milet., 5th c.BC), (κατ-) “GDI” 5532.7 (from Zeleia), ἐλάμφθην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.89, 6.92, 7.239 (-λάφθ- by erasure in codex B)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Hellenistic ἐλήμφθην [[ “IG” 14.1320, NT.Mark.16.19 (ἀν-)] NT]; Doric dialect ἐλάφθην [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “ψαμμίτης” 1.13 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: perfect εἴλημμαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 455 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but in Trag.usually λέλημμαι, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 876, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1113, “IA” 363 (troch.), “Cyc.” 433, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1090 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (δια-); so later προ-λέληπτε (sic) [[ “Supp.epigram” 2.769 (from Dura)] Refs]; Ionic dialect λέλαμμαι (ἀπο-) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.51, (δια-) 3.117 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive ἀνα-λελάφθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (accusative to many codices, [[5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographusand 1st c.AD: Erotianus Grammaticus, -λελάμφθαι vulgar form)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; Ionic dialect3rd.pers. plural λελήφαται [[ “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 1.268 ] Refs]; Doric dialect perfect imperative λελάφθω [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 3, +others] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—in the future, aorist passive, and perfect passive the a is short by nature in Ionic dialect, probably long in Doric dialect and in Doric dialect ized Hellenistic forms such as λαμψοῦνται [[ “Test.Epict.” 5.14, λάμψεσθαι “IG” 5(1).1390.67 (Andania, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; it is marked long in Aeolic dialect λᾱμψεται [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 5.9:—of these tenses 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist active, and aorist middle twice (see. above); the Homeric present is λάζομαι. —The word has two main senses, one (more active) take; the other (more passive) receive:
__I.1 take hold of, grasp, seize, μάστιγα καὶ ἡνία [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.81: frequently with χειρί or χερσί added, χειρὶ χεῖρα λαβόντες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.286; χερμάδιον λάβε χειρί 5.302; χείρεσσι λαβὼν περιμήκεα κοντόν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.487; ἐν χείρεσσι λάβ᾽ ἡνία 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.116; ἐν χεροῖν λ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 913; διὰ χερῶν λαβών [prev. author] “Ant.” 916; ἐς χέρας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1242; ἐν ἀγκάλαις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 481, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of an eagle, λ. ἄγραν ποσίν [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.81 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: c.accusative of the thing seized, λ. γούνατα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.465 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but also with accusative of whole, genitive of part seized, τὴν πτέρυγος λάβεν caught her by the wing,[[ 2.316; τὸν δὲ πεσόντα ποδῶν ἔλαβε 4.463; γούνων λαβὼν κούρην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.142; λ. τινὰ τῆς ζώνης 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.10, etc.: sometimes with _genitive_ only, ἀγκὰς ἀλλήλων λαβέτην χερσί] Refs 8th c.BC+] they took hold of one another with their arms, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.711 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—frequently in middle, see below [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.1.b take by violence, carry off as prize or booty, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.273, 8.191, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.130, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 68 (_passive_), 1431, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; capture a city, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.24.11, 3.61.8; ἐκ πόλιος.. ἀλόχους καὶ κτήματα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.41 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of lions, λαβὼν κρατεροῖσιν ὀδοῦσιν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.114; ἵνα δαῖτα λάβῃσιν 24.43 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of an eagle, [[ 17.678 ] Refs]; of a dolphin, [[ 21.24. ] Refs]
__I.1.c λ. δίκην take, exact punishment, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.29,34, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.181; ποινάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 360, etc. (rarely for δοῦναι δίκην, see.below 11.1 e); λ. τιμωρίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.280. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 of passions, feelings, etc., seize, μένος ἔλλαβε θυμόν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.468; Ἀτρεΐωνα.. χόλος λάβεν 1.387; ὁππότε κέν μιν γυῖα λάβῃ κάματος 4.230; τὸν δὲ τρόμος ἔλλαβε γυῖα 24.170, +others; δὴν δέ μιν ἀμφασίη ἐπέων λάβε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.704; τοὺς Ἀθηναίους θάρσος ἔλαβε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.92; ἄχος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.6; δέος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 699c ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπειδὴ καιρὸς ἐλάμβανε when the occasion came to them, i.e. occurred, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.34, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 44.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of fevers and sudden illnesses, attack, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 1.19, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 417, etc. (compare λάζομαι, λῆψις):] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, λαμβάνεσθαι νόσῳ, ὑπὸ [νόσου], [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 446, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.138; ἔρωτι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.31, etc. (reversely of the person, λ. θυμόν, etc., see below 11.3). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2.b of a deity, seize, possess, τινα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.79 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, τῇ Ῥέᾳ λαμβάνονται [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 37. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__I.2.c of darkness, etc., occupy, possess, εὖτ᾽ ἂν κνέφας τεμενος αἰθέρος λάβῃ [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 365. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.3 catch, overtake, as an enemy, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.159, 11.106, 126, etc.; λ. τινὰ στείχοντα θύραζε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.418; ζῶντες ἐλάμφθησαν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.119 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; simply, find, come upon, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1031, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1339. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.4 catch, find out, detect, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.89 (_passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποίῳ λαβών σε Ζεὺς ἐπ᾽ αἰτιάματ; [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 196; τὸν αὐτόχειρα τοῦ φόνου λ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 266: frequently with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]participle, κἂν λάβῃς ἐψευσμένον[[ [prev. work] 461; κλέπτοντα Κλέωνα λάβοιμι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 759; λ. τινὰ ψευδόμενον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 389d; τοῦτον ὑβρίζοντα λαβόντες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with adjective, ὅπως μὴ λήψομαί σε προπετῆ [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 570 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, δρῶσ᾽ ἐλήφθης [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 808; ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρῳ δεινὰ δρῶντ᾽ εἰλημμένω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 455; ληφθεῖσαν ἐπ᾽ αὐτοφώρῳ μηχανωμένην τι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.3; ἐλήφθη μοιχός 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.66 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in good sense, οὐκ ἂν λάβοις μου μᾶλλον οὐδέν᾽ εὐσεβῆ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1051. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.5 λ. τινὰ πίστι καὶ ὁρκίοισι bind him by.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.74; ἀραῖον λαβεῖν τινα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 276 codices ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.6 with double accusative, take as, λαβὼν πρόβλημα σαυτοῦ παῖδα τόνδ᾽ [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 1007 ] Refs]; ξυμπαραστάτην λ. τινά[[ [prev. work] 675; τοὺς Ἕλληνας λ. συναγωνιζομένους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.86. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.7 τὴν Ἴδην λαβὼν ἐς ἀριστερὴν χεῖρα taking, keeping Ida to your left (nisi to be read λαβών, ἐς..) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.42; ἐν δεξιᾷ λ. τὴν Σικελίαν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. τὸ στρατόπεδον κατὰ νώτου take in rear, i.e. be behind, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75; compare ἀπείργω 11.2, ἔχω (A) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.8 λ. Ἑλληνίδα ἐσθῆτα assume it, [[ [prev. author] 4.78, compare 2.37; λ. ζυγόν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.93. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.8.b take food or drugs, [[ 1st c.AD: Diocles Epigrammaticus “Frr.” 121 (_passive_), 140, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.125, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.469. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__I.9 apprehend by the senses, ὄμμασιν θέαν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 537, compare 656 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρόσφθεγμά τινος[[ [prev. work] 234; ὁρᾶται, ἢ ἄλλῃ τινὶ αἰσθήσει λαμβάνεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 524d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.9.b apprehend with the mind, understand, φρενὶ λ. τὸν λόγον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.10; νόῳ [prev. author] 3.41; τῇ διανοίᾳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 143a; λ. ἐν ταῖς γνώμαις βεβαίως 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.51; ἐν νῷ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.35.6: _absolutely_, λ. τὴν ἀλήθειαν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.6; μνήμην παρὰ τῆς φήμης λ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 246d, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.9.c with adverb added, take, i.e. understand in a certain manner, ταύτῃ ταῦτα ἐλάμβανον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.142; λάβετε [τοὺς λόγους] μὴ πολεμίως 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ πρᾶγμα μειζόνως ἐλάμβανον took it more seriously, [[ [prev. author] 6.27, compare 61; ὀρθῶς λ. τὸν φιλοκερδῆ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hipparchus” 227c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. τι οὕτω, ὧδε, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 174b27, “Rh.Al.” 1423a4; ὀργῇ καὶ φόβῳ τὸ γεγονὸς λ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 18: with παρά with _accusative_, λαμβάνω σε παρὰ βουκόλον.. “PMag.Par.” 1.2434:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, τρίτου καθεστῶσαι ἐπὶ πρώτου λαμβάνονται are used for the first person, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Pronominibus;” 78.22 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; with ἐς, εἰ ἐς κόρην λαμβάνοιτο be taken for a girl, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.32: less frequently with double _accusative_, ὡς μεθυστικὰς λ. [τὰς ἁρμονίας] 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1342b25, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.179; τῆς νίκης ἆθλον τὴν ὑπεροχὴν τῆς πολιτείας λ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a31; τοῦτο λ. γιγνόμενον [prev. author] “Mete.” 346a7; also λ. περί τινος τί ἐστι [prev. author] “EN” 1142a32, compare 1140a24, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]: also with infinitive, λ. τι εἶναί τι [[ [prev. author] “Mete.” 389a29, +others: with a _relative_ clause, οὕτω δεῖ λαμβάνειν, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχ ὅτι.. [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1053a27, compare 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.1; εἰλήφθω ὁ ἄδικος ποσαχῶς λέγεται 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1129a31 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: in bad sense, πρὸς δέους λ. τι [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Flamininus” 7; πρὸς ἀτιμίας [prev. author] “Cic.” 13; λ. δι᾽ οἴκτου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 194 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but also ἐν χάριτι καὶ δωρεᾷ λ. receive as a favour, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.31.6. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__I.9.d in Logic, assume, take for granted, ἅπαν ζῷον λαμβάνει ἢ θνητὸν ἢ ἀθάνατον [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Analytica Priora” 46b6; λ. τὰς περὶ ἕκαστον ἀρχάς [prev. work] 53a2, etc.:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, τὰ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ληφθέντα[[ [prev. work] 26b30 ] Refs]; αἱ εἰλημμέναι προτάσεις[[ [prev. work] 33a15, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.46 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, “Sign.” 35, “Oec.” p.5 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.89. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.9.e take, i.e. determine, estimate, τὴν ξυμμέτρησιν τῶν κλιμάκων [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20; ἐντεῦθεν τὸ μέγεθος τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 66; τὴν τιμωρίαν ποθεινοτέραν λ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.42. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.10 take in hand, undertake (compare ληπτέον), λ. τι ἐπὶ τὸ σωφρονέστερον, opposed to συνταχύνειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.71 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδένα πόνον λαβόντες without taking any trouble, [[ [prev. author] 7.24; παλαισμάτων λ. φροντίδα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.22. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.11 take in, hold, τὸ στρατόπεδον πεζοὺς λ. περὶ τετρακισχιλίους [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.107.10. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__I.12 participle λαβών frequently seems pleonastic, but adds dramatic effect, λαβὼν κύσε χεῖρα took and kissed, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.398, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.36: so in Trag. and Comedy texts, τί μ᾽ οὐ λαβὼν ἔκτεινα; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1391, compare 641; τῆ νῦν τόδε πῖθι λαβών 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 141, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.12.b ingressive of ἔχων (ἔχω (A) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.6), ἑτάρους τε λ. καὶ νῆα.. ἦλθον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.269, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 259. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.1 have given one, get, receive, properly of things [[(“Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 106), ἄποινα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.427; τὰ πρῶτα 23.275; ἀντίποινα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 592 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], see belowe; παρὰ βασιλέος δῶρα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 439; πρός τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 12, etc.; ἀπὸ τῶν συκοφαντῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.9.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; gain, win, κλέος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.298, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1347, etc.; ἀρετάν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.6; κόσμον [prev. author] “N.” 3.31 codices (variant{ἔλαχες} Scholia)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀλκήν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 218, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸ μνηστεύεσθαι λ. ἡλικίαν attain.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.39; λ. νόστον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1016, etc.; λ. τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς θαλάττης 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.61; μοναρχίαν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1163; τέρψιν [prev. author] “Tr.” 820; χάριν [prev. author] “OT” 1004; κέρδος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 906 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in bad sense, λ. ὀνείδη [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1494; συμφοράν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 43; θάνατον [prev. author] “Hel.” 201 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γέλωτα μωρίαν τε incur.., [[ [prev. author] “Ion” 600; αἰτίαν ἀπό τινος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.18, etc.:—for λ. θυμόν, etc., see above 1.2 et below 3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.1.b receive hospitably, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.255, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 284 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (ἔλαβες τὸν ἱκέτην ἐχέγγυον) which approaches this sense; καλῶς λ. τινά treat well, [[ “BGU” 843.10 (1st-2nd c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.1.c receive in marriage, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.199, 9.108, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 953.27, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.14, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.39, “PEleph.” 1.2 (4th c.BC), 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 436 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς λαμβάνουσιν ἐξ αὐτῶν, i.e. those who married their daughters, [[ “SIG” 1044.14 (Halic., 4th-3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of the father taking a daughter-in-law, τῷ υἱῷ λ. τινά [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 447. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.1.d λ. ὄνομα, ἐπωνυμίαν, receive a name, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 305d, “Smp.” 173d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.1.e λ. δίκην receive, i.e. suffer, punishment, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.115 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν ἀξίην λ. get one's deserts, [[ [prev. author] 7.39; δίκην γὰρ ἀξίαν ἐλάμβανεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1312; λ. ζημίας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 11.11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.1.f λ. ὅρκον receive an oath, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1377a8; λ. πιστά 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.5, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. λόγον demand an account, τινος for a thing, παρά τινος from a person, [[ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.4.3, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.47. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.1.g λ. ἐν γαστρί conceive, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κῦμα λ., of the earth, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 128. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II.1.h receive as produce, profit, etc., οἶνον ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1123; [χρήματα] ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 347b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. ἑκατὸν τῆς δραχμῆς, ὀβολοῦ, purchase for.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1263, “Ra.” 1235, compare “Nu.” 1395 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόθεν ἄν τις τοῦτο τὸ χρῖμα λάβο; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__i λ. πεῖράν τινος, see at {πεῖρα}.
__2 admit of, ὁ μέγας κίνδυνος ἄναλκιν οὐ φῶτα λαμβάνει [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.81. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b admit, initiate, τοὺς ἐς τὰ τῆς τέχνης εἰλημμένους [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ εὐσχημοσύνης” 17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of persons conceiving feelings and the like, λ. θυμόν take heart, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.461: frequently in periphrasis, λ. φόβον, ={φοβεῖσθαι}, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 729 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἰδῶ λ., ={αἰδεῖσθαι}, [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 345 ] Refs]; λ. ὀργήν, ={ὀργίζεσθαι}, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1050: so generally λ. ἀρχήν, ={ἄρχεσθαι}, [prev. author] “IA” 1124 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. ὕψος, ἐπίδοσιν, αὔξησιν, ={ὑψοῦσθαι, ἐπιδιδόναι, αὐξάνεσθαι}, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.10, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 732b5, etc.; λ. κακόν τι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1310 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. νόσον take a disease, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 610d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λ. μορφήν, τέλος, etc., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 762a13, 744a21, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ οἰκίαι ἐπάλξεις λαμβάνουσαι receiving battlements, having battlements added, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.69, compare 115. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 with infinitive, receive permission to.. , [[ “SIG” 996.6 (Smyrna, 1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B middle, take hold of, lay hold on, with genitive, [σχεδίης] [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.325 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τῆς κεφαλῆς, τῶν γουνάτων, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.64, 9.76; χειρός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 899, etc.; τοῦ βωμοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.126, etc.: with double _genitive_, μου λαβόμενος τῆς χειρός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 153b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2 seize and keep hold of, obtain possession of, ἀρχῆς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 373 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καιροῦ λαβόμενος seizing the opportunity, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 2.28; λ. ἀληθείας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 309d: rarely with _accusative_, τόν.. λελαβέσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.388. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.3 lay hands upon, χαλεπῶς λαμβάνεσθαί τινος lay rough hands on him, deal hardly with him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. δ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.4 of place, λ. τῶν ὀρῶν take to the mountains, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.24, compare 106 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Δήλου λαβόμεναι (i.e. αἱ νῆες) reaching Delos, [[ [prev. author] 8.80. ] Refs]
__B.5 find fault with, censure, τινος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 637c, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 4.22. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.6 λαβέσθαι ἑαυτοῦ check oneself, [[ 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 2.24. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
