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εὐεργετ-έω , the augm. εὐηργ- is sts. found, esp. in codd., as impf.
A.“εὐηργέτουν” X.Ap. 26: aor. “εὐηργέτησα” Ar.Pl.835, v.l. in Din.1.16, but “ηὐεργέτησα” Lys. 9.14: pf. εὐηργέτηκα v.l. in Lycurg.140: pf. Pass. “εὐηργέτημαι” X. Mem.2.2.3, SIG798.5 (Cyzicus, i A. D.), but Inscrr. and Pap. have “εὐεργέτηκα” IG22.573 (iv B. C.), “εὐεργέτημαι” PLond.2.169.26 (i A. D.), “εὐεργετήθην” IG7.2808 (Hyettus, iii A. D.), “ηὐεργετημένοι” PTeb.326.16 (iii A. D.):—to be a benefactor, S.Ph.670, IG22.786, etc.; [“Ἰησοῦς] διῆλθεν -τῶν” Act.Ap.10.38.
2. to be proclaimed as “εὐεργέτης” 1.2, JHS10.76 (Patara, i A. D.).
II. c. acc. pers., do good services or show kindness to one, “τοὺς θανόντας εἰ θέλεις εὐεργετεῖν” A.Fr.266.1, cf. Eu.725, E.Ion1540, Lys. l.c., etc.; “ὁ νόμος βούλεται -τεῖν βίον ἀνθρώπων” Democr.248; “εὐ. τὸν δῆμον” IG22.791.25, etc.; “τὸν θεὸν εὐεργετηκότες” SIG417.13 (Delph., iii B. C.): c. acc. cogn., “εὐ. τινὰ τὴν μεγίστην εὐεργεσίαν” Pl.Ap.36c, cf. R.615b; ὅ τι ἂν ἡμᾶς εὐεργετήσῃς ib.345a; μεγάλως or μεγάλα εὐ., X.Cyr.8.2.10, 12: c. dat. rei, χρήμασιν εὐ. ib. 2:—Pass., have a kindness done one, “εὐεργεσίαν εὐεργετηθείς” Pl.Grg.520c; “μείζω εὐηργετημένοι” X.Mem.2.2.3; “καί τι εὐεργέτηται ὑπ᾽ ἐμοῦ” Pl.Cri.43a; “ἀντὶ πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ὧν εὐεργετήθη παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ” IG7.2808 (Hyettus, iii A. D.); “εὐεργετούμενος εἰς χρήματα” Pl.Smp.184b.
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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