A.“διδάξω” A. Supp.519, etc.: aor. “ἐδίδαξα” Il.23.307, etc.; poet. “ἐδιδάσκησα” h.Cer. 144 (prob.), Hes.Op.64, Pi.P.4.217: pf. “δεδίδαχα” X.Cyr.1.3.18, Pl. Men.85e:—Med., fut. διδάξομαι: aor. ἐδιδαξάμην:—Pass., fut. “διδαχθήσομαι” D.H.3.70, etc.: aor. “ἐδιδάχθην” Sol.13.51, Hdt.3.81, Ar.Nu. 637, etc.: pf. “δεδίδαγμαι” Il.11.831, Pl.Phdr.269c, etc. Redupl. form of δάω (q.v.) in causal sense:—instruct a person, or teach a thing, Il. 11.832, 9.442: c. dupl. acc., σε . . ἱπποσύνας ἐδίδαξαν they taught thee riding, 23.307, cf. Od.8.481; “πολλὰ διδάσκει μ᾽ ὁ πολὺς βίοτος” E. Hipp.252 (lyr.), etc.; also “δ. τινὰ περί τινος” Ar.Nu.382; “δ. τῶν γενομένων τισὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν” Pl.Tht.201b: c. acc. pers. et inf., σε διδάσκουσιν θεοὶ αὐτοὶ ὑψαγόρην ἔμεναι teach thee to be . ., Od.1.384: c. inf. only, δίδαξε γὰρ Ἄρτεμις αὐτὴ βάλλειν ἄγρια πάντα she taught how to shoot, Il.5.51, etc.: without inf., “πολλοὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς ῥήτορας διδάσκουσιν” Aristonym. ap. Stob.3.4.105; “δ. πολλοὺς αὐλητάς” Charon 9; “τούτους ἱππέας ἐδίδαξεν οὐδενὸς χείρους” Pl.Men.94b; also “δ. τινὰ σοφόν” E.Heracl.575: with an abstract subject, “πολυμαθίη νόον οὐ διδάσκει” Heraclit.40; “ξενιτείη αὐτάρκειαν δ.” Democr.246:—Med., teach oneself, learn, “φθέγμα καὶ ἀστυνόμους ὀργὰς ἐδιδάξατο” S.Ant. 356 (lyr.); but usu., have one taught or educated, esp. of a father, “τὰ ἄλλα . . διδάσκεσθαι τοὺς ὑεῖς” Pl.Prt.325b; “δ. τοὺς ὑεῖς τὰς κούφας ἐργασίας” Arist.Pol.1321a24: c. inf., “δ. τινὰ ἱππεύειν” Pl.R.467e; “δ. τινα ἱππέα” Id.Men.93d, cf. X.Mem.4.4.5 (this distn. between Act. and Med. was neglected by some Poets and late Prose writers, Med. being used like Act. in Pi.O.8.59, Luc.Somn.10, etc.; but in Ar.Nu.783 Elmsl. restored διδάξαιμ᾽ ἄν σ᾽ ἔτι for διδαξαίμην σ᾽ ἔτι, and in Pl.R.421e Cobet cj. διδάξει for -εται: Med. is used of gods, [“θεοί] . . ὅπλων χρῆσιν διδαξάμενοι” Id.Mx.238b):—Pass., to be taught, learn, c. gen., διδασκόμενος πολέμοιο trained, skilled in war, Il. 16.811: c. acc., τά σε προτί φασιν Ἀχιλλῆος δεδιδάχθαι which [medicines] they say thou wert taught by Achilles, 11.831, cf. Arat.529; “ὃς οὔτ᾽ ἐδιδάχθη οὔτε εἶδε καλὸν οὐδέν” Hdt.3.81; “διδάξω καὶ διδάξομαι λόγους” E.Andr.739: freq. c. inf., “δεδιδαγμένον εἶναι χειροήθεα” Hdt.2.69; “βρέφος διδάσκεται λέγειν ἀκούειν θ᾽” E.Supp.914; διδάσκεσθαι ὡς . . X. HG2.3.45.
II. abs., explain, “πῶς δή; δίδαξον” A.Eu. 431; “σαφῶς δ.” Th.2.60, etc.; show by argument, prove, “λέγων διδασκέτω” X.An.5.7.11, etc.; δ. περί τινος ὡς . . Th.3.71; “ἡλίκον ἐστὶ τὸ ἀλαζόνευμα . . πειράσομαι . . διδάξαι” Aeschin.3.238; ποιητὴς δ. ὅτι . . Jul. Or.2.50b.
III. of dithyrambic and dramatic Poets (cf. “διδάσκαλος” 11), δ. διθύραμβον, δρᾶμα, produce a piece, Hdt.1.23, 6.21; “Πέρσας” Ar.Ra.1026, cf. Pl.Prt.327d, IG12.770, al.:—Med., διδάξασθαι χορόν train one's own chorus, Simon.145.
