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ἱστορ-έω , (ἵστωρ)
A.inquire into or about a thing, τι Hdt.2.113, A. Pr.632, etc.; “περί τινος” Plb.3.48.12; also, inquire about a person, τινα S.OT1150, 1156; “ὅδ᾽ εἴμ᾽ Ὀρέστης . . ὃν ἱστορεῖς” E.Or.380, cf. Tr.261: folld. by relat. clause, “Αἴγισθον ἔνθ᾽ ᾤκηκεν ἱστορῶ” S.El. 1101.
2. examine, observe, χώραν, πόλιν, Plu.Thes.30, Pomp.40, cf. J.AJ1.11.4; τὴν τοῦ Μέμνονος [σύριγγα] OGI694.7; “τὴν σύνεσίν τινος” Plu.Cic.2, etc.; “τινὰς ἀπολουμένους” Gal.11.109: hence, to be informed about, know, “κακῶς τὸ μέλλον ἱστορῶν” A.Pers.454; “πατέρα ἱστορεῖς καλῶς” Id.Eu.455, cf. Hp.Praec.12: metaph., εἴ τις ἀκτὶς ἡλίου νιν ἱστορεῖ βλέποντα has news of him, A.Ag.676: folld. by relat., “τὴν πορείαν ἱστορῶν, ὡς δυσδίοδος ὑπάρχει” Plb.3.61.3; read in history, Id.1.63.7.
2. c. acc. pers., inquire of, ask, “ἱστορέων αὐτοὺς ἥντινα δύναμιν ἔχει ὁ Νεῖλος” Hdt.2.19, cf. 3.77; inquire of an oracle, E.Ion 1547; visit a person for the purpose of inquiry, “Κηφᾶν” Ep.Gal.1.18:— Pass., to be questioned, “κληθέντας ἱστορέεσθαι εἰ . . ” Hdt.1.24; “ἱστορούμενος” S.Tr.415, E.Hel.1371.
b. c. dupl.acc., inquire of one about a thing, “τί μ᾽ ἱστορεῖς τόδε” Id.Ph.621, cf. Lyc.1.
4. abs., inquire, “ἀκοῆ ἱ.” Hdt.2.29, etc.; esp. in part., “ἱστορέων εὕρισκε” Id.1.56, etc.; “οὔθ᾽ ὁρῶν οὔθ᾽ ἱστορῶν” S.OT1484; folld. by a relat. word, “ἱστόρεόν τε ὅτεῳ τρόπῳ περιγένοιτο” Hdt.1.122.
II. give an account of what one has learnt, record, “τοὺς βίους τῶν χερσαίων” Thphr.HP4.13.1, cf. Luc. Hist.Conscr.7, etc.; ἱστοροῦσί τινες . . it is stated that . . , Dsc.4.75, etc.:—freq. in Pass., “ὁ καρπὸς . . ἐπιλημπτικοὺς ἱστορεῖται ὠφελεῖν” Id.1.83; “περί τινος ἱστορεῖται διότι” Phld.Mus.p.18K.; “ἱστορεῖται περὶ Γοργοῦς τοιοῦτον” Plu.2.227e, cf. Id.Cic.1, Ael.Tact.34.3, etc.; Ἀπολλόδωρος εἴρηκεν ἀπελθόντας Ὕαντας ἱστορεῖσθαι are represented as having gone, Str.10.3.4; τῶν ἱστορουμένων οὐδενὸς ἧττον πολυπράγμων the most in dustrious person on record, Phld.Mus.p.108K.
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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