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ἐμφαν-ίζω , Att. fut.
A.“-ιῶ” E.Fr.797: pf. “ἐμπεφάνικα” PSI4.400.2 (iii B. C.):—show forth, manifest, exhibit, αὐτὸς αὑτόν E.l.c., cf. Philoch.20, Plb.30.17.2, etc.; ἐ. τινὰ ἐπίορκον, ἐχθρόν, exhibit or represent him as . ., X.Ages.1.12, D.14.36; “ἐ. οὐκ οὖσαν ἀγαθὸν τὴν ἡδονήν” Arist.EN1173b31; “πᾶν σύμπτωμα” Metrod.10:— Med., exhibit in court, PMasp.32.33 (vi A.D.):—Pass., to become visible, be manifested, “τινί” LXX Wi.1.2, Ev.Matt.27.53, Ph.1.107, J.AJ 1.13.1, D.L.1.7.
2. make clear or plain, Pl.Sph.244a, Men.Sam. 140, etc.; ἄστρα ἡμῖν τῆς νυκτὸς τὰς ὥρας ἐ. X.Mem.4.3.4: with a relat., τὰ παθήματα δι᾽ ἃς αἰτίας γέγονε ἐ. Pl.Ti.61c; “ἐ. τοῦτο ὅτι . .” X. Cyr.8.1.26.
3. declare, explain, Arist.APr.46a24; give orders, “τινὶ ποιεῖν τι” Plb.6.35.8; report, “περί τινος” SIG412.4 (Delph., iii B.C.), cf. UPZ42.18 (ii B. C.), IG9(2).517.5 (Larissa), Michel431.6 (Iasus), etc.: —Pass., GDI2502 B41 (Delph., iv B. C.).
4. lay an information against, τινά Arg.Ar.Lys.:—Pass., “ὁ -ισθείς” Charond. ap. Stob.4.2.24.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Navy, 36
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 1.13.1
    • New Testament, Matthew, 27.53
    • Plato, Sophist, 244a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 61c
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.1.26
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    • Xenophon, Agesilaus, 1.12
    • Polybius, Histories, 30.17.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.35.8
    • Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, 1.7
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