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ἀληθ-εύω , fut.
A.“-εύσω” X.Mem.1.1.5, al.:—speak truth, A.Th.562, Hp.Prog.15, Pl.R.589c; “περί τι” Id.Tht.202b: with neut. Adj., ἀ. πάντα speak truth in all things, Batr.14; “πολλὰ ἀ.” X.An.4.4.15; τὰς δέκα ἡμέρας ἠλήθευσε he rightly foretold . . , ib.5.6.18; ἀ. τοὺς ἐπαίνους prove their praises true, Luc.Ind.20; τοὔνομα `make good', Them.Or.1.4c.
2. of things, to be, prove true, “σημεῖα” Hp.Prog.25:—Pass., to be fulfilled, of conditions, “ἐπὶ τούτοις -ομένοις” X.Cyr.4.6.10, freq. in Arist.:—Act. of reasoners, arrive at truth, Id.Metaph.1062a25:—Pass., “ὁ λόγος -εύεται” is in accordance with truth, Top. 132b4, al.; ἀληθεύεσθαι κατά τινος to be truly predicated of . . , ib.132a31, al.: fut. Med. in same sense, EN1100a35, al.
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 562
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