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ἀνακρίνω ,
A.examine closely, interrogate, esp. judicially, Παυσανίαν Th.1.95, cf. Antipho 2.1.9, Pl.Smp.201e; “ἀ. τινὰ πόθεν ζῇ” Diph.32.3; sound a person, LXX 1 Ki.20.12.
2. inquire into, “ἀ. τοὺς ἐργασαμένους” Antipho 2.3.2; τὴν [αἰτίαν] Phld.Po.994 Fr.21, cf. Lib. p.21 O.:—Med., ἀ. ποινὰ τίς ἔσται what remedy there shall be, Pi.P. 4.63.
II. examine magistrates so as to prove their qualification, D.57.66 and 70.
2. of the magistrates, examine persons concerned in a suit, so as to prepare the matter for trial, And.1.101, Is.5.32; ὁ ἄρχων ἀνέκρινε πᾶσιν ὑμῖν καὶ ἀνακρίνας ει<*>σήγαγεν εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον D.48.31, cf. Arist.Ath.56.6:—Pass., “ἀνεκρίθησαν αἱ ἀμφισβητήσεις” D.48.23:—Med., οὐκ ἀνεκρίνατο ταύτην [τὴν γραφήν] he did not have it examined, of the prosecutor, Id.21.103, cf. 53.17.
3. generally, examine, “μάρτυρας” SIG953.46 (Calymna); “τινά” 1 Cor.9.3:—Med., Michel409.9 (Cos).
4. select, Ps.-Callisth.3.26.
III. in Med., abs., ἀνακρίνεσθαι πρὸς ἑωυτούς dispute, wrangle one with another, Hdt.9.56.
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 (13):
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 1.9
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 3.2
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 56.6
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 103
    • Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus, 31
    • Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus, 23
    • Demosthenes, Against Nicostratus, 17
    • Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, 66
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.56
    • Isaeus, Dicaeogenes, 32
    • Plato, Symposium, 201e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.95
    • Old Testament, 1 Samuel, 20.12
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