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__B pick up, etc.: tenses for signification 1 and 11, future λέξω [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.224 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἔλεξα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 292 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, future in passive sense λέξομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 322 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐλεξάμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.27 (_transitive_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ἐλέγμην [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.335; λέκτο 4.451 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist ἐλέχθην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.188: also post- 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus in these senses, but only in _composition_, especially with ἀπο-, ἐκ-, κατα-, συν] Refs 8th c.BC+]-; post-[[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect εἴλοχα (κατ-, συν-), passive εἴλεγμαι, in these senses rarely λέλεγμαι (see. the compounds); also future λεγήσομαι (συλ-): aorist 2 ἐλέγην (κατ-, συν-):—gather, pick up, ὀστέα.. λέγωμεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.239, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24. 72, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.53 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἱμασιάς τε λέγων picking out stones for building walls, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.359 (ubi see Scholia, compare λογάς 2), compare 24.224 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, gather for oneself, ἐπὶ δὲ ξύλα πολλὰ λέγεσθε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.507; ὀστέα λευκὰ λέγοντο 24.793; φάρμακα λέξασθαι 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.807. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.2 middle, choose for oneself, pick out, λέξαιτο.. ἄνδρας ἀρίστους [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.108; κούρους 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, to be chosen, εἰ.. λεγοίμεθα πάντες ἄριστοι [[ 13.276. ] Refs]
Close Browse lexicon entries __B.II count, tell, ἐν δ᾽ ἡμέας λέγε κήτεσιν he counted us among the seals, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.452 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; and in aorist middle, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.125 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐγὼ πέμπτος μετὰ τοῖσιν ἐλέγμην I reckoned myself.., [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.335 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λέκτο δ᾽ ἀριθμόν he told him over the number, [[ 4.451 ] Refs]:—passive, μετὰ τοῖσιν ἐλέχθην I was counted among these, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.188. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.b so, but not frequently, after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, λ. ποντιᾶν ψάφων ἀριθμόν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.46, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 570; καθ᾽ ἓν ἕκαστον λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.45 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also καὶ σὲ δ᾽ ἐν τούτοις λέγω count you among.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 973 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; λ. τινὰ οὐδαμοῦ count him as naught, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 183 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κέρδος λ., εἰ.. count it gain, that.., [[[prev. work] 462 ] Refs]:—middle, λέξατο πάντας [ναύτας] [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.189 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, λέγεσθαι ἐν τοῖς ἱππικωτάτοις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 11.20; ἐνὶ πρώτῃσι λέγεσθαι 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future middle in passive sense, ἐν τοῖς οὐκέτ᾽ οὖσι λέξομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus [prev. cited] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 recount, tell over, οὔ τι διαπρήξαιμι λέγων ἐμὰ κήδεα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.197; σὺ δέ μοι λέγε θέσκελα ἔργα 11.374; τὰ ἕκαστα λέγων 12.165; ὅσα τ᾽ αὐτὸς.. ἐμόγησε, πάντ᾽ ἔλεγ᾽ 23.308: so in Trag., λ. τύχας, πάθη, μόχθους, etc., 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 633, “Pers.” 292, “Ag.” 555, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also Ἀγαμέμνονι.. λέγ᾽ ὀνείδεα repeated reproaches against him, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.222; so perhaps ψεύδεα πολλὰ λ. 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 27 (but see below 111):] Refs 8th c.BC+] —middle, τί σε χρὴ ταῦτα λέγεσθα; why need'st thou tell the tale thereof? [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.275 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; and so, μηκέτι ταῦτα λεγώμεθα νηπύτιοι ὥς[[ [prev. work] 292, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.240, 13.296; μηκέτι νῦν δήθ᾽ αὖθι λεγώμεθα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.435. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.III say, speak, first in [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 27 (see. above 11.2)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future λέξω [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 38.1, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 859, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.14, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.48, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.33, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔλεξα [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 45, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 217e, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.15 (rare in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus ] Refs 6th c.BC+] and the Orators, common in some dialects, as Boeotian, [[ “IG” 7.504.2 (from Tanagra), Thessalian, [prev. work]9(2).461.21, Ionic, variant in 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 12): ] Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect λέλεχα [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.249, λέλεγα and λέλογας 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (εἴρηκα in correct writers)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, future λεχθήσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.86, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67c, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also future middle in passive sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1186, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 906 (Lyric poetry), etc.; and λελέξομαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.53 (variant{λέξεται}), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 457b: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἐλέχθην (never ἐλέγην in this sense) [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1442, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.32, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect λέλεγμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.20, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.21, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 389, etc. (εἴλεγμαι] Refs 5th c.BC+] in this sense only in compound δι-): rare in compounds (only ἀντιλέγω, ἐπιλέγω, καταλέγω, προλέγω), the present in most compounds being supplied by ἀγορεύω, the future by ἐρῶ, the aorist by εἶπον, the perfect by εἴρηκα:
__B.III.1 say, speak, never in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, first in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus [same place], frequently from 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] and Trag. downwards; of all kinds of oral communications, ἐκέλευε λέγειν εἴ τι θέλοι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.58 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so λέγοις ἄν speak, say on, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 268e, etc.; λ. μῦθον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 698 (troch.); ψευδῆ λ. [prev. author] “Ag.” 625; ἀληθῆ λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 12b ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (so in passive, λόγος λέλεκται πᾶς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 389) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of oracles, say, declare, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.136 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥσπερ τοὔνομα λέγει indicates, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 312c: with Preps., λ. ἀμφί τινος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1017, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 580; περί τινος 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 34.2, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 165, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 151 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.48 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ὑπέρ τινος in his defence, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 555, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατά τινος against him, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1240a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.5.2 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; λ. ἐπί τισι εὐχὰς ἀγαθάς express good wishes for them, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 625 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; λ. τά τινος take his part, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.64 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; λ. πρός τι in reference or in answer to.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 753, etc.; εἴς τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.5.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.2 with accusative et infinitive, say that.., [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.59, etc.: with _negative_ οὐ, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348c, etc., but μή [prev. work] 346e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.5 (_passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+], and usually in later Gr., [[ LXX.Gen.38.22; λ. μὴ εἶναι ἀνάστασιν NT.Matt.22.23: frequently also followed by ὡς, ὅτι (generally so in the _active_ voice) when the subject of the relative clause may become the object of the principal Verb, γυναῖκα λέγουσιν, ὡς κάθηται.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.3.5, etc.: rarely with ] LXX+NT+5th c.BC+]participle, λ. Οἰδίπουν ὀλωλότα speak of him as dead, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1580; λέγουσιν ἡμᾶς ὡς ὀλωλότας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 672; λέξασ᾽ ἀδελφῷ σ᾽ ἐνθάδ᾽ ὄντα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 888 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, λέξεται ἔχων [[ [prev. author] “IT” 1047, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 170 (conjecture). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.III.3 λέγειν τινά τι say something of another, especially κακὰ λ. τινά speak ill of him, revile him, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.61; ἀγαθὰ λ. τινάς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 435 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἔσχατα, τὰ ἀπόρρητα λ. ἀλλήλους, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.9, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.123 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also εὖ or κακῶς λ. τινά, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 445 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 524, compare 1028; εὖ λ. τὸν εὖ λέγοντα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.3.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.4 call by name, ἃς τρέμομεν λ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 128 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with double accusative, call so and so, λέγοιμ᾽ ἂν ἄνδρα τόνδε τῶν σταθμῶν κύνα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 896, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 939 codices, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.5 λ. τινὰ ποιεῖν τι tell, command one to do, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 553, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 101, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.22, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: so with τινι, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 840, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.150 (no object expressed in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 925, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 856)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λέγε τὸν ἐρωτῶντα ἵνα.. εἴπῃ σοι.. [[ 2nd c.AD: Astrampsychus Onirocriticus “Oracula” p.1 H.; ὡς ὁ νόμος λέγει 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.20; ὁ λέγων μὴ μοιχεύειν NT.Rom.2.22. ] NT+4th c.BC+]
__B.III.6 λ. τι say something, i.e. speak to the point or purpose, βούλῃ λέγειν τι, καὶ λέγων μηδὲν κλύει; [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 757 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λέγω τ; am I right? the answer being λέγεις, [[ [prev. author] “OT” 1475; κινδυνεύεις τι λέγειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 404a; ἴσως ἄν τι λέγοις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.12, compare “Cyr.” 1.4.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to οὐδὲν λέγει has no meaning, no authority, οὐδὲν λ. τὸ σωφρόνως τραφῆναι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 334, compare “V.” 75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν λέγεις nonsense! [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 625 ] Refs]; but οὐδὲν λέγειν, also, say what is not, lie, [[ [prev. author] “Av.” 66, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 30b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also εὖ γε λέγεις, εὖ λέγεις, εὖ ἂν λέγοις, good news!, that is well!,[[ [prev. work] 24e, “Grg.” 447b, “Prt.” 310b ] Refs]; καλῶς, ὀρθῶς λ., you are right, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.3.4, 3.6.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κοὔπω λέγω and what is more, [[ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.44 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τί λέγει; τὸν ἔποπα παῖ καλεῖ; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 57, compare “Ec.” 298 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.7 pleonastic, ἔφη λέγων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.156, 5.36; ἔλεγε φάς [prev. author] 1.122; ἔφασκε λέγων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 472; ἦ δ᾽ ὃς λέγων [prev. author] “V.” 795; ὡς ἔφη λέγων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 757; καὶ λέγων εἶπεν οὕτω πως 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.74, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.8 at the beginning of letters or documents, Ἄμασις Πολυκράτεϊ ὧδε λέγει.., Μαρδόνιος τάδε λέγει.., etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.40, 8.140 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. ά, etc.; τὰ γράμματα ἔλεγε τάδε [[ [prev. author] 1.124, etc.] Refs]; γράμμασι λέγον τάδε, of an inscription, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.54 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in roman edicts, Μάρκος Μέττιος Ῥοῦφος.. λέγει [[ “POxy.” 237 viii 28 (1st c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B.III.9 wish to say, mean, οὔτοι γυναῖκας ἀλλὰ Γοργόνας λέγω [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 48 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τί τοῦτο λέγει, πρὸ Πύλοι; what does πρὸ Πύλοιο mean? [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1059, compare 1021, 1375, “Ec.” 989, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 60e: frequently in Platonic dialogue, πῶς λέγεις] Refs 5th c.BC+]; how do you mean? in what sense do you say this? Ap.[[ 24e, +others] Refs]; ἢ πῶς λέγομε; or what do we mean to say? Grg.[[ 480b ] Refs]; πῶς δὴ οὖν αὐτὸ λέγει; [[ “Phdr.” 265c ] Refs]; ποῖόν τί ποτε ἄρα λέγοντές φασι.. what they can possibly mean by saying.., [[ “Tht.” 181c, +others: with double _accusative_, τοιοῦτόν τι σὲ λέγειν τὸ κρεῖττον “Grg.” 489d, +others: frequently (especially in Trag.) to explain more fully, εἴσω κομίζου καὶ σύ, Κασάνδραν λέγω] Refs] you, I mean Cassandra, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1035; ὁ μάντις, υἱὸν Οἰκλέους λ. [prev. author] “Th.” 609, compare 658 (variant), “Pr.” 946; ποταμός, Ἀχελῷον λέγω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 9, compare 1220, “Ph.” 1261, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 987 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμὲ λέγων meaning me, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.215; τὸ δ᾽ ὑμεῖς ὅταν λέγω, τὴν πόλιν λ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.88: sometimes, however, the word after λέγω] Refs 5th c.BC+] is put in apposition with the word to be explained, Ἀντικλείας.., τῆς σῆς λέγω τοι μητρός [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 175, compare “Th.” 658 codex M; περὶ τῶνδε.., λέγω δὲ Φωκέων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.152; παρ᾽ ὧν.., τούτων τῶν τὴν Ἀσίαν οἰκούντων λέγω [prev. author] 8.24, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 202b: _absolutely_, μηδενὸς ὄντος ἐν [τῇ χώρᾳ] λέγω 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.9.b περὶ ἃς (i.e. ἀπολαύσεις) λέγομεν τὸν σώφρονα in regard to which we use the term 'temperate', [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1148a5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 494b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.10 ὡς λέγουσι as they say, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 23, etc.; ὡς λ. μοι [prev. author] “OC” 1161:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, λέγεται it is said, c.accusative et infinitive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.30, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but also πατρὸς λέγεται γενέσθαι.. [[ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.2.1 ] Refs]; θανεῖν ἐλέχθη he was said to have been killed, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 292; so λεγόμενον ἐρέω 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.108: τὸ λεγόμενον] Refs 5th c.BC+] absolutely, as the saying goes, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.68, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 447a, “Smp.” 217e, etc.; τὸ λ. δὴ τοῦτο [prev. author] “Grg.” 514e: ὁ λεγόμενος γραῶν ὕθλος] Refs 5th c.BC+] the so-called.., [[ [prev. author] “Tht.” 176b; οἱ λ. αὐτόνομοι εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.3.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ λ. ὅτι.. of whom it is said that.., [[ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.6.16. ] Refs]
__B.III.11 of orators, speak (emphatically), λέγειν δεινός [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 545, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.9, etc.; λέγειν ἠσκηκότες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 963, compare 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 95 (see. λαλέω); λ. τε καὶ πράσσειν δυνατώτατος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.139; οἱ ἐν τῷ πλήθει λέγειν δυνάμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.8, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.286 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; plead one's cause in a court of law, [[ [prev. author] 23.78 ] Refs]; δίκας λέγειν ὑπέρ τινος speak as an advocate for.., [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.111. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.III.12 boast of, tell of, τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ῥώμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Poets, sing of, θέλω λ. Ἀτρείδας [[ “Anacreontea” 23.1. ] Refs]
__B.III.13 recite what is written, λαβὲ τὸ βιβλίον καὶ λέγε [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 143c; and frequently in Oratt., as λέγε τὸν νόμον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] and 10, etc.; of lectures, ἀκούσατέ μου σχόλια λέγοντος [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.21.6, compare 15.8 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+] (the sense of Latin lego, read, occurs only in the compounds ἀναλέγομαι, ἐπιλέγομαι).
__B.III.14 say or send word by another, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.25, 7.4.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.15 maintain as a thesis, οἱ τὰς ἰδέας λέγοντες [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 193b36, “Metaphorical” 1036b14. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.III.16 nominate, Latin dicere [dictatorem], [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 36.26 (_passive_)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (Cf. Latin lègo, legio, legulus ('olivegatherer').)
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