χειρ-όω,
(χείρων) worst, master, subdue, τινὰπρὸς βίαν χειροῦν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 443 (troch.); χ. τὸν ἐλέφαντα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 17.32 (assuming variant). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II mostly in middle, future -ώσομαι[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 92, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.122, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐχειρωσάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.211, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.11, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect κεχείρωμαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 79, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 50.24 (_passive_, see III)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—both of countries or nations, and of single persons, conquer, overpower, subdue, ὡς ἐχειρώσαντο τοὺς ἐναντίους [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus [same place], compare 2.70, +others, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 330, 359, “HF” 570; τόξοις χειροῦσθαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 694 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ γὰρ ἡμᾶς.. πρὸς βίαν χειρώσεται S.[same place]; βίᾳ χ. τοὺς ἐναντίους [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.20; χ. τινὰ σφίσι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: sometimes with collateral notion of killing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.25 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, of taking prisoner, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 861, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τήνδ᾽ ἐχειρούμην ἄγραν became master of this booty, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 950. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 without any sense of violence, χ. τινὰ λόγοις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 219c, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.7.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. θρέμματα tame them, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 222a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ὄρχησις κεχείρωται τοὺς ἀνθρώπους Luc.[same place]; δι᾽ ἡδονῆς [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.139a; διὰ τῆς κολακείας 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 14.48, etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]