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ἀγαπάζω , Ep. and Lyr. form of ἀγαπάω, Hom.; Dor.3pl.
A.“-οντι” Pi.I. 4(5).54; Ep. impf. “ἀγάπαζον” A.R.4.1291:—also in Med., Hom.; Dor. impf. “ἀ_γαπάζοντο” Pi.P.4.241:—Pass., Diotog. ap. Stob.4.7.62:— only in pres. and impf., exc. aor. act. “ἀγαπάξαι” Callicrat. ap. Stob.4.28.18:—treat with affection, receive with outward signs of love, “ὡς δὲ πατὴρ ὃν παῖδα . . ἀγαπάζει, ἐλθόντ᾽ ἐξ ἀπίης γαίης δεκάτῳ ἐνιαυτῷ” Od.16.17; “νεμεσσητὸν δέ κεν εἴη ἀθάνατον θεὸν ὧδε βροτοὺς ἀγαπαζέμεν ἄντην” Il.24.464; “νέκυν” E.Ph.1327:—Med. in abs. sense, show signs of love, caress, “κύνεον ἀγαπαζόμενοι κεφαλήν τε καὶ ὤμους” Od. 21.224: c. acc., like Act., Pi.P.l.c.; “τινὰ δώροις” A.R.4.416.
2. welcome, receive gratefully, “τιμαὶ καλλίνικον χάρμ᾽ ἀγαπάζοντι” Pi.I. l.c.
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 (6):
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1327
    • Homer, Odyssey, 21.224
    • Homer, Odyssey, 16.17
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.464
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1291
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.416
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