ὑπηρετ-έω,
future -ήσω[[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor (see. below)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], etc.: pluperfect ὑπηρετήκειν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—properly do service on board ship, as a rower (compare ὑπηρέτης, ὑπηρεσία), [[ “SIG” 524.33,47 (Praesus, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—passive, πλοῖον ὑπὸ δύο ἀνθρώπων ὑπηρετεῖσθαι δυνάμενον [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.55. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II to be a servant, do service, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 996, “Ph.” 990 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἄρχω, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 518 (troch.); τοὺς διὰ φόβον ὑ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.38. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 with dative, minister to, serve, τῷ παρόντι δαίμονι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1306, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1708, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.108, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑ. τῷ χρηστηρίῳ submit to its ruling, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.41, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 914a; ἔργοις ἀνοσίοις ὑ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 283 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [νόμῳ, λόγῳ], [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.19 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑ. τοῖς τρόποις humour his ways, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1432 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τῷδ᾽ ὑ. λόγῳ second, support it, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 588; ὢν ἄνθρωπος ἀνθρώπου τύχαις ὑπηρετήσω 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 150. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 ὑ. τινὶ εἴς or πρός τι, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 8.7, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ὑ. τινί τι serve one in a thing, οἷς σὺ ταῦθ᾽ ὑπηρετεῖς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1024, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 979, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 196c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.1.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.138, 59.35. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]