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διεγγυ-άω ,
I. give bail to produce, “σώματα” D.H.7.12:—Med., to take bail for, κατεγγυῶντος (v.l. δι-）“ Μενεξένου τὸν παῖδα, Πασίων αὐτὸν ἑπτὰ ταλάντων διεγγυήσατο” Isoc.17.14, cf. Plu.Caes.11:—Pass., to be bailed by any one, ὀκτακοσίων ταλάντων τοῖς προξένοις διηγγυημένοι bailed by their Proxeni for eight hundred talents, Th.3.70.
2. give security, SIG976.49 (Samos, ii B. C.).
II. take pledges, distrain, ib.629.20 (ii B. C.).
III. abs., mortgage one's property, LXXNe. 5.3.
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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    • Isocrates, Trapeziticus, 14
    • Old Testament, 2 Esdras, 5.3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.70
    • Plutarch, Caesar, 11
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.12
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