Strong G1867ἐπαινέω

ἐπαιν-έω,
Aeolic dialect ἐπαίνημι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 5.19)]; Laconian dialect ἐπαινίω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 198:)]imperfect ἐπῄνεον Il [Refs (3.461 (tmesis))]: future -έσω[Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.29, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1057, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 465 (Lyric poetry), “Heracl.” [300], 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 214e (uncertain reading), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.4.16, 5.5.8)]: but more frequently -έσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1195 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 199a, “R.” 379e, 383a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.6, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.31, etc.;)] poetry -ήσω [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 93 codices, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.69)]: aorist 1 ἐπῄνεσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 536, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.86, etc. (see. below); poetry (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.335, 18.312, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 876, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.168, 189)]: also Aeolic dialect prose, [Refs (“Schwyzer” 622.21, 623.31, 636.17 (but -έσαι 623.34))]: perfect ἐπῄνεκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.207,261, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 307a, etc.)]:—middle, aorist ἐπῃνησάμην [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 16.200c)]; -εσάμην [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Phalaris Epistolographus “Epistulae - Epistolographi” 147)]:—passive, future ἐπαινεθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.13, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 474d; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 4.4)] codices: aorist ἐπῃνέθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.146, etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην “SIG” 708.20 (Istropolis, 2nd c.BC))]: perfect ἐπῄνημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 51, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.233: ={αἰνέω} (for which it is regularly used in _Attic dialect_))]:—approve, applaud, commend, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus mostly _absolutely_, ἐπὶ δ᾽ ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.461, etc.: with _accusative_ _of things_, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος 2.335; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι “hymnus ad Mercurium” 457; σύνθεσιν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.168)]: with dative person, agree with, side with, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.312)]: absolutely, assent, agree, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1616)]; ἐπαινεσάντων δ᾽ αὐτῶν on their assent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.65.)]
2 praise, commend in any way (the usually sense in Attic dialect and Trag.), τινά or τι, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 37 A, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.34, 6.130; τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐ. τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 264)]; ἐ. τινά τι commend one for a thing, but in this case the thing is always a neuter pronoun or adjective, τὰ μέν σ᾽ ἐπαινῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 342 (compare 111); πάντ᾽ ἔχω σ᾽ ἐπαινέσαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1381, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 222a; in 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 3.22)] ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, [ἐπί] should be read; ἐπί τινι.. καὶ διότι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Inscription Prien.” 44.17 (2nd c.BC))]; εἴς τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.111a; κατά τι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.37; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 145b; also ἐ. τινά τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1c, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 42 (but ἐ. τί τινος)] praise something in some one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 361d): c._accusative_ _cognate_, ἔπαινον ἐ. [prev. author] “La.” 181b)]: with participle, ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.73; ἐ. τινὰ ὅτι.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 471d)]; ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα praise one man to another, [Refs ([prev. author] “R.” 501c)]; especially compliment publicly, [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.25)]; frequently in honorary Inscrr.,[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (compare “IG” 22.102, “Inscription Prien.” [same place], etc.: with _dative_ _person_, τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Σαμίων “IG” 12.101.2, compare “SIG” 604.11 (Delph., 2nd c.BC).)]
3 of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων -ουμένη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.118, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1289a1; νόμοι -ούμενοι [prev. author] “Rh.” 1375b24)]; approve, πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐ. τὰ δίκαια [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1077.)]
4 agree to or undertake to do, ῥώμην μ᾽ ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 553; ἐ. εἰς τὸ λοιπόν “PTeb.” 8.18 (3rd c.BC).)]
5 aorist ἐπῄνεσα in Attic dialect in present sense, ἐπῄνεσ᾽ ἔργον I commend it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 536)]: absolutely, well done! [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 282, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 485, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1095, “Med.” 707.)]
II ={παραινέω}, recommend, advise, τοιούσδ᾽ ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλου; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1360, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 596, “Supp.” 996)]: with dative et infinitive, ὑμῖν δ᾽ ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν [Refs ([prev. author] “Ch.” 581)]; σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ᾽[Refs 5th c.BC+ ((compare 1.5) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1322, compare “OC” 665.)]
III as a civil form of declining an offer or invitation, I thank you, I am much obliged, κάλλιστ᾽, ἐπαινῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 508 (ubi see Scholia), compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 342)]; so ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν decline it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.7, compare “An.” 7.7.52.)]
IV of Rhapsodists, recite, declaim publicly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 536d, 541e.)]