Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, λειτουργ-έω

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I. at Athens, serve public offices at one's own cost, And.1.132, al., D.27.64: c. acc. cogn., “λ. τὰ προσταττόμενα” Is.6.61; “δύο λειτουργίας” D.50.9, cf. Lys.3.47; λ. ὑπέρ τινος serve these offices for another, Is.3.80, 6.64; τὰ λελειτουργημένα public services performed, D.21.169.

II. generally, perform public duties, serve the state, “τῇ πόλει” X.Mem.2.7.6; “ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας οὐσίας ὑμῖν λ.” Isoc.8.13; “τὸ ταῖς οὐσίαις λειτουργοῦν, ὃ καλοῦμεν εὐπόρους” Arist.Pol.1291a34; “τοῖς σώμασιν καὶ τοῖς χρήμασιν λ.” Id.Ath.29.5; “λ. τοῖς σώμασιν” D.21.165; “τὸ περὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς λ.” Arist.Pol.1291a35; λ. τῇ πόλει ταύτην τὴν λειτουργίαν ib.37, cf. Plb.6.33.6; “λ. πρὸς τεκνοποιΐαν” Arist.Pol.1335b28; “ἄρχειν καὶ λ.” POxy.1119.16 (iii A.D.).

III. generally, serve a master, c. dat., οἱ ἑνὶ λειτουργοῦντες τὰ τοιαῦτα δοῦλοι [εἰσι] Arist.Pol. 1278a12, cf. PSI4.361.15 (iii B.C.), Nic.Dam.4 J.; λ. τρισὶν ἀνδράσιν, of a prostitute, AP5.48 (Gallus).

2. perform religious service, minister, “ἐπὶ τῶν ἱερῶν” D.H.2.22; “τῷ Κυρίῳ” Act.Ap.13.2, etc. (Written λιτ- in Rev.Et.Anc.32.5 (Athens, i B.C.), etc., cf. λειτούργιον, λειτουργός.）

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
- Andocides, On the Mysteries, 132
- Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 29.5
- Demosthenes, Against Midias, 165
- Demosthenes, Against Midias, 169
- Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1, 64
- Demosthenes, Against Polycles, 9
- Isaeus, Pyrrhus, 80
- Isaeus, Philoctemon, 60
- Isaeus, Philoctemon, 61
- Isaeus, Philoctemon, 64
- Isocrates, On the Peace, 13
- Isocrates, Antidosis, 145
- Lysias, On the Confiscation of the Property of the Brother of Nicias, 7
- Lysias, Against Simon, 47
- Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.7.6
- Polybius, Histories, 6.33.6
- New Testament, Acts, 13.2
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.22

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