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ἐπιδευτερ-δέκομαι Hdt. (v. infr.), Leg.Gort.11.25:—
A.admit besides or in addition, Hdt.8.75.
2.. receive besides, Men. 583.
3.. receive, welcome, “τινὰς φιλανθρώπως” Plb.21.18.3; ἐ. εἰς τὰ “οἰκητήρια” POxy.281.9 (i A.D.).
II.. take on oneself, undertake, “πόλεμον” Plb.4.31.1; “τὴν στεφανηφορίαν” Inscr.Prien.108.255 (ii B.C.), cf. POxy.498.6 (ii A.D.), etc.: c. inf., ib.102.7 (iv A.D.): abs., agree, admit liability, PAmh.2.31.12 (ii B.C.).
2.. of things, allow of, admit of, “κατηγορίαν” D.10.28; “λόγον” Arist.Cat.3b2; τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ ἧττον ib.6a19; ἐναντιότητα ib.11b1; “τὴν μεσότητα” Id.EN1107a8; τἀκριβές ib.1094b25; “δόξαν αἰτίας” Aeschin.1.48, cf. HeroAut.1.7: c. inf., “ὁ χρόνος οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται μακρολογεῖν” Din.1.31.
3.. expect, await, “βαρεῖαν ἐπιδέγμενοι ἀνάγκαν” B.16.96.
4.. accept a term as applying to, “ἐπί τινος” Ascl. Tact.11.2 (v.l. ἐκδ-).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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