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ἀρτύω Od.4.771, impf.
A.“ἤρτυ^ον” Hom. (v. infr.), the only tenses in Hom.: fut. ἀρτύσω [υ_] S.Fr.1122: aor. “ἤρτυ_σα” Hdt.1.12, Cratin. 303: pf. ἤρτυ_κα （κατ-) A.Eu.473:—Pass., pf. “ἤρτυ_μαι” Pherecr., Eup., Hp., v. infr.: aor. ἠρτύθην [υ_] Ruf. ap. Orib.4.2.4: in Att. this Verb is chiefly used in compds. with κατά and ἐξ: (cf. ἀραρίσκω):—like ἀρτύνω, arrange, prepare, make ready, of things requiring skill or cunning, e.g. of a smith, “τὰ δ᾽ ἤρτυε” Il.18.379; “σοὶ δὲ . . δόλον ἤρτυε” Od.11.439; “τῷδ᾽ ἤρτυεν . . ὄλεθρον” 16.448, cf. 20.242; “γάμον . . ἀρτύει” 4.771; “ἤρτυσαν τὴν ἐπιβουλήν” Hdt.1.12; “φόνον τινί” Plb.15.25.2.
II. in culinary sense, dress savoury meat, season, S.Fr.1122, Cratin.303; “ἀ. τὰ ὄψα” Arist.EN1118a29:—Pass., “κίχλαι . . εἰς ἀνάβραστ᾽ ἠρτυμέναι” Pherecr.108.23; “ὄψῳ πονηρῷ πολυτελῶς ἠρτυμένῳ” Eup.335; “τὰ πρὸς ἡδονὴν ἠρτυμένα” Hp.VM14; “ἠρτυμένος οἶνος” Thphr.Od.51.
III. administer property, Leg.Gort.12.32, IG5(2).3.27 (Tegea, iv B. C.), Epich.192.
IV. bequeath, Tab.Heracl.1.106.
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, Eumenides, 473
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.12
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.379
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.439
    • Homer, Odyssey, 16.448
    • Homer, Odyssey, 20.242
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.771
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 1122
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.25.2
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 14
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