A.“ἐλέγξω” Ar.Nu.1043, etc.: aor. “ἤλεγξα” Il.9.522, etc.:—Pass., fut. “ἐλεγχθήσομαι” Antipho 2.4.10, X.Mem.1.7.2: aor. “ἠλέγχθην” Antipho l.c., Pl.Grg.458a, etc.: pf. “ἐλήλεγμαι” Id.Lg.805c: 3sg. ἐλήλεγκται Antiphol.c. (ἐξ-ηλεγμένοι is f.l. in Lys. 6.44): plpf. “ἐξ-ελήλεγκτο” D.32.27:—disgrace, put to shame, μῦθον ἐ. treat a speech with contempt, Il.9.522; ἐ. τινά put one to shame, Od. 21.424.—This usage is only Ep.
II. cross-examine, question, Hdt.2.115, Pl.Ap.18d, etc.; “μὴ 'λεγχε τὸν πονοῦντα” A.Ch.919; “φύλαξ ἐλέγχων φύλακα” S.Ant.260; “τί ταῦτ᾽ ἄλλως ἐλέγχεις” ; Id.OT333, cf. 783; “ἔλεγχ᾽, ἐλέγχου” Ar.Ra.857; “ἐ. τινὰ περί τινος” Id.Pl.574; “ἕνεκά τινος” Antiph.207.10; “τὰς ἀρχὰς βασάνοις χρώμενοι ἐλεγχόντων” Pl. Lg.946c: c. acc. et inf., accuse one of doing, E.Alc.1058:—Pass., to be convicted, Hdt.1.24,117; “ἐλεγχόμενοι εἴ τι περιγένοιτο τῶν χρημάτων” D.35.36, cf. Pl.Prt.331c, 331d: with part., “ἐλεγχθεὶς διαφθείρας” Antipho 2.3.9, cf. 2.4.10; “ἐλεγχθήσεται γελοῖος ὤν” X.Mem.1.7.2.
2. test, bring to the proof, “ἀνδρῶν ἀρετὰν παγκρατὴς ἐλέγχει ἀλάθεια” B.Fr. 10.2; πρᾶγμ᾽ ἐ. A.Ag.1351 (Pass., “τὸ πρᾶγμ᾽ ἐλεγχθέν” Ar.Ec.485); “λόγον” Pl.Sph.242b (Pass., Id.Tht.161e): with subject. clause, ἐ. τινά, εἰ . ., A.Ch.851, Ar.Eq.1232.
3. prove, τοῦτο ἐ. ὡς . . Pl.Phdr.273b, cf. Sph.256c: abs., bring convincing proof, ὡς ἡ ἀνάγκη ἐ. Hdt.2.22; αὐτὸ τὸ ἔργον ἐ. Th.6.86; “περί τινος” D.21.5.
4. refute, confute, τινά or τι, Pl.Grg.470c, al., D.28.2, Luc.Nigr.4:—Pass., Pl.Tht.162a; χρυσὸς κληῖδας ἐλέγχει proves that they avail not, AP5.216 (Paul. Sil.).
b. put right, correct, prove by a reductio ad impossibile, “ὅσα ἔστιν ἀποδεῖξαι, ἔστι καὶ ἐλέγξαι τὸν θέμενον τὴν ἀντίφασιν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς” Arist.SE 170a24; παράδοξα ἐ. Id.EN1146a23.
7. decide a dispute, “ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν δύο” LXX Ge. 31.37.