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αἰνέω (cf. αἴνημι, αἰνίζομαι), impf.
A.“ᾔνουν” E.Hec.1154, Ion. “αἴνεον” Hdt.3.73: fut. “αἰνήσω” Od.16.380, Thgn.1080, Pi.N.1.72; in Att. Poets always αἰνέσω, as in Pi.N.7.63, Semon.7.112: aor. “ᾔνησα” Hom., opt. “αἰνήσειε” Simon.57.1; Dor. “αἴνησα” Pi.P.3.13; in Att. always ᾔνεσα, Ion. “αἴνεσα” Hdt.5.113: pf.ᾔνεκα （ἐπ-) Isoc.12.207:— Med., fut. αἰνέσομαι (only in compds. ἐπ-, παρ-):—Pass., aor. part. “αἰνεθείς” Hdt.5.102: pf.ᾔνημαι （ἐπ-) Hp.Acut.51, Isoc.12.233.—Poet. and Ion. Verb, very rare in good Att. Prose (Pl.R.404d, Lg.952c), ἐπαινέω being used instead:—properly, tell, speak of, A.Ag.98,1482 (both lyr.), Ch.192; σε κρηγύην αἰνεῖ reports of you as honest, Herod. 4.47.
II. usu. praise, approve, opp. ϝεικέω, ψέγω, Il.10.249, Thgn. 612, etc.; “ἀνδρὸς ὃν οὐδ᾽ αἰνεῖν τοῖσι κακοῖσι θέμις” Arist.Fr.673:— Pass., “ὑπὸ Σιμωνίδεω αἰνεθείς” Hdt.5.102; “ἐπ᾽ ἔργμασιν ἐσθλοῖς” Theoc. 16.15.
b. esp. in religious sense, glorify God, LXX 1 Ch.16.4, Ev.Luc.2.13, PMag.Par.1.1146, al.:—also c. dat., τῷ κυρίῳ, τῷ θεῷ, LXX 1 Ch.16.36, Apoc.19.5.
2. approve, advise, recommend Od. 16.380,403: c. inf., recommend to do a thing, euphem. for κελεύω, A.Ch.555,715 : c. part., αἰνεῖν ἰόντα to commend one's going, Id.Pers.643:—ὦ δεινὸν αἶνον αἰνέσας giver of dire counsel, S.Ph.1380:— c. acc. rei, to be content with, acquiesce in, “γάμον” Pi.P.3.13, cf. N.1.72, A.Eu.469, Supp.902,1070 (lyr.), E.Med.1157; “θῆσσαν τράπεζαν αἰνέσαι” Id.Alc.2.
3. praise, with collateral sense, decline courteously, “νῇ ὀλίγην αἰνεῖν, μεγάλῃ δ᾽ ἐνὶ φορτία θέσθαι” Hes.Op.643 (cf. Plu. 2.22f), cf. S.Fr.109; but, thank, cj.in E.Supp.388.
4. abs., approve, “ὁ δᾶμος αἰνεῖ” IG9(1).119 (Locr.).
III. to promise or vow, τινί τι or τινὶ ποιεῖν τι, S.Ph.1398, E.Alc.12.
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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