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ἀποτίνω , Arc. ἀπυτείω IG5(2).6.43 (Tegea, iv B.C.), fut. -τείσω: aor. -έτεισα; Thess. 3sg. aor. imper. ἀππεισάτον ib.9(2).1229 (ii B.C.):—
A.repay, “τιμὴν δ᾽ Ἀργείοις ἀποτινέμεν” Il.3.286; “εὐεργεσίας ἀποτίνειν” Od.22.235.
2. pay for a thing, πρὶν . . μνηστῆρας ὑπερβασίην σίην ἀποτεῖσαι ib.13.193; Πατρόκλοιο δ᾽ ἕλωρα . . ἀποτείσῃ may atone for making a prey of Patroclus, Il.18.93; σύν τε μεγάλψ ἀπέτεισαν made atonement with a great price, ib.4.161; “ἀ. αἷμα” A.Ag.1338 (lyr.); “πληγὰς τῶν ὑπεραύχων” S.Ant.1352.
3. more freq., pay in full, τίσιν οὐκ ἀποτείσει Orac. ap. Hdt.5.56, cf. 3.109; “ζημίην” Id.2.65; “ἀργύριον” Ar.V.1255; “ἐγγύας” Antipho 2.2.12, cf. 5.63; “χρήματα” Lys. 1.29; “ἀξίαν” Luc.DMort.30.1; ἀπότεισον pay the wager! Ar.Pl.1059; in Law παθεῖν ἢ ἀποτεῖσαι are opposed to denote personal or pecuniary penalties, e.g. Lexap. D.21.47, cf. ib.25; “τί ἄξιός εἰμι παθεῖν ἢ ἀ.;” Pl.Ap.36b, cf.Plt.299a, Lg.843b, al.
4. c. acc. pers., ἀλάστωρ . . τόνδ᾽ ἀπέτεισεν made him the price, A.Ag.1503 (lyr.).
5. τὸ πεπρωμένον ἀ. pay the debt of fate, i.e. die, Epigr.Gr.509 (Thess.).
II. Med., ἀποτίνομαι, poet. ἀποτίνυ^μαι (freq. written -τίννυμαι) Il.16.398, Hes.Op.247 (s.v.l.), Thgn.362, Hdt.6.65: fut. -τείσομαι:—to get paid one, exact or require a penalty from, “πόλεων δ᾽ ἀπετίνυτο ποινήν” Il.16.398, etc.: c. dupl. acc., “ἀποτείσασθαι δίκην ἐχθρούς” E. Heracl.852; “δέκα τάλαντ᾽ ἀ.” Eup.317 (dub.), etc.
2. c. acc. pers., ἀποτείσασθαί τινα avenge oneself on another, punish him, Od.5.24, X. Cyr.5.4.35, etc.
3. c. acc. rei, take vengeance for a thing, punish it, “εἴ κέ ποτέ σφι βίας ἀποτείσεται” Od.3.216, cf. 16.255; “τὰ παράνομα . . θεὸς ἀ.” Ar.Th.684: c. gen. rei, “ἀ. τῶν . . ἱρῶν κατακαυθέντων” Hdt.6.101, v. supr.1.2: abs., take vengeance, Thgn. l.c., Sol.4.16. [ἀποτίνω] has ι_ by position before νϝ in Ep., ι^ in Att. For ἀποτίνυμαι, which has ι_ by nature, ἀποτείνυμαι should perh. be read in early texts; cf. foreg.]
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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