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παιδα^γωγ-έω , pf.
A.“πεπαιδαγώγηκα” Luc.Tim.13:—Pass., fut. παιδαγωγήσομαι in pass. sense, Pl. Alc.1.135d: aor. “ἐπαιδαγωγήθην” Hp.Art.52, Pl.Lg.641b: pf. “πεπαιδαγώγημαι” Plu.Ant.10:—attend as a παιδαγωγός, lead or manage like a child, “γέρων γέροντα παιδαγωγήσω σ᾽ ἐγώ” S.Fr.695 (= E.Ba. 193); “ἦ παιδαγωγεῖν γὰρ τὸν ὁπλίτην χρεών” ; Id.Heracl.729:—Pass., of a child, Hp. l.c.
2. generally, train, guide, educate, moderate, τινα Pl. Tht.167c; “τὰς ἐπιθυμίας” Muson.Fr.7p.29H.; “τὸ θέατρον . . π. τὰ ἤθη τῶν ὁρώντων” Luc.Salt.72, cf. Tim.13; guide an elephant's trunk, Ael.NA2.11:—Pass., συμποσίου ὀρθῶς παιδαγωγηθέντος well led, managed, Pl.Lg.641b; τὴν παιδαγωγηθεῖσαν οὕτω πόλιν ib.752c; “ἂν ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου παιδαγωγηθῇ τὸ πάθος” Plu.2.443d.
3. attend like a παιδαγωγός, wait upon, follow, Pl.R.600e, Alc.1.135d.
4. 'lead by the nose', cajole, in Pass., “ὑπό τινος” Hyp.Ath.3.
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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