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ἔρδω , impf.
A.“ἔρδον” Il.11.707, Ion. “ἔρδεσκον” 9.540, Hdt.7.33 : fut. “ἔρξω” Od.11.80, Hes.Op.327, A.Pers.1059(lyr.), S.Ph.1406 (troch.) : aor. “ἔρξα” Od.8.490, Hdt.5.65 ; and so in A.Th.923 (but “ἦρξεν” Ag.1529 codd.) : pf. “ἔοργα” Il.5.175, etc. ; 3pl. “ἔοργαν” Batr.179 : plpf. ἐώργειν, 3sg. “ἐώργει” Od.4.693, 14.289, “ἐόργεε” Hdt.1.127 : pf. part. Pass. “ἐργμένος” B.12.207 : aor. 1 part. Pass. ἐρχθείς ib.65. (Aspirated acc. to Sch.Ar.Ach.329, and so freq. in codd. of Hom., cf. Thgn.690, Epic. ap.Pl.Euthphr.12a : fr. ϝέργ-ψω (through ϝέρζδω), cf. ἔργον : impf. “ἔερδον” Sol. ap. Arist.Ath.12.3 : aor. 1 “ἔϝερξα” Inscr.Cypr.146 H. ; written βέρδηι in Schwyzer183 (Crete, iii/ii B. C.), cf. ϝηρόντων (imper.) GDI5013ii10, ϝήροντι ib.4987a2):—poet. and Ion. Verb, do, “ὅσσ᾽ ἔρξαν τ᾽ ἔπαθόν τε” Od.8.490 ; “ἔρξον ὅπως ἐθέλεις” Il.4.37 ; “ἔρξον ὅπῃ.. νόος ἔπλετο” 22.185 ; “εἰ δέ κεν ὣς ἔρξῃς” 2.364 ; “εὖ ἔρξαντα” 5.650, cf. Inscr.Cypr.l.c. ; “οὔτε εὖ ἔρδων οὔτε κακῶς” Thgn.368 ; “αἴ τις τούτων τι ϝέρκσαι” Leg.Gort.10.30 ; opp. “πάσχω, ἔρξαι τε καὶ παθεῖν” Pi.P.8.6 ; παθεῖν ἔρξαντες prob. in A.Ag.1658 (troch.) : freq. c. acc., ἔ. ἔργα βίαια, μέγα ἔργον, Od.2.236, 19.92 ; ἔ. φίλα, ἐσθλά, πολλά, etc., 15.360, Il.2.272, 9.320, etc. : sts. c. dat. pers., “ὃς δὴ πολλὰ κάκ᾽ ἀνθρώποισιν ἐώργει” Od.14.289 ; “μὴ Νυκτὶ..ἀποθύμια ἔρδοι” Il.14.261, cf. Mosch.4.93 codd. : more freq. c. dupl. acc, “ὅ με πρότερος κάκ᾽ ἔοργε” Il.3.351 ; “κακὰ πολλὰ ἔοργε Τρῶας” 5.175, cf. 9.540, A.Pers.236 (troch.), etc. ; “ἀνήκεστον πάθος ἔ. τινά” Hdt.1.137 ; also “εὖ ἔ. τινά” Thgn.105,955, Semon.7.80, etc. ; “κακῶς” Hdt.6.88, E.Med.1302 : without an Adv., ἔ. τινά to do one harm, S.Ph.683(lyr.) : less freq. with Subst. alone as object, “ἔ. πήματα” A.Pers.786 ; “προσωφέλησιν” S.Ph. 1406 (troch.) ; ἔρδοι τις ἣν ἕκαστος εἰδείη τέχνην let him practise.., Ar. V.1431 ; also “φάρμακα ταῦτ᾽ ἔρδοισα χερείονα μήτε τι Κίρκας” Theoc.2.15:—Pass., “τὸ καλῶς ἐργμένον” B.12.207 ; εὖ ἐρχθέντος ib.65.
2. offer a sacrifice (cf. ῥέζω), not in pf. and plpf. ; “ἔρδομεν ἀθανάτοισι τεληέσσας ἑκατόμβας” Il.2.306 ; “ἔ. ἱερὰ καλά” Hes.Th.417 ; “σφάγια θεοῖσιν ἔρδειν” A.Th.231 ; “Διὶ θυσίας” Hdt.1.131:—Pass., “θυσίη ἐρδομένη ὧδε” Id.4.60 ; “θανόντεσσιν ἐρδόμενον μέρος” Pi.O.8.78 : abs., offer sacrifice, “ἔρδειν..ἱεροῖς ἐπὶ βωμοῖς” Hes.Op.136, cf. Porph.Abst.2.59.—Found in late Ion. Prose, Aret.CA2.3. (ῥέζω is another form of this verb.)
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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