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δεξιόομαι , impf.
A.“ἐδεξιούμην” X.Cyr.7.3.38, Ep. 3pl. “δεξιόωντο” h.Hom.6.16, A.R.2.756: fut. “-ώσομαι” A.Ag.852, S.El.976: aor. “ἐδεξιωσάμην” Lys.2.37, X.Cyr.7.5.53, etc.:—Pass., aor. “ἐδεξιώθην” Pl.R. 468b: (δεξιά, δεξιός):—greet with the right hand, welcome, c. acc.pers., Ar.Pl.753, Lys.2.37, X.Cyr.7.5.53; canvass, “τὸν δῆμον” Plu.Cat.Mi. 49: but also c. dat. pers., δεξιοῦσθαι θεοῖς to raise one's right hand to the gods, pay greeting or honour to them, A.Ag.852: also c. dat. modi, δ. χερσί h.Hom. l. c.; “ἐπαίνοις” S.El.976; “δώροις” Arist.Mu. 391b8; “λόγοις χρηστοῖς καὶ ἔργοις” Paus.2.16.2; “στόματι” Luc.Alex. 41; “ὀφθαλμοῖς” Lib.Decl.4.18: c. acc. rei, πυκνὴν ἄμυστιν δεξιούμενοι pledging one in many a bumper, E.Rh.419:—Pass., Pl.l.c.; “ζῷα δεξιούμενα” with right hands joined, IG2.754.33.
II. δεξιώσασθαι: ἐγγίσασθαι γυναικί, Hsch.
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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