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ἐπα^είδω , contr. Att. ἐπᾴδω , fut.
A.“-ᾴσομαι” Ar.Ec.1153, etc.; “-ᾴσω” Ach.Tat.2.7:—sing to or in accompaniment, “μάγος ἀνὴρ . . ἐ. θεογονίην” Hdt.1.132; “ᾠδὰν χορῷ” E.El.864(lyr.):—Pass., Arr.An.2.16.3.
2. sing as an incantation, “ἃ αἱ Σειρῆνες ἐπῇδον τῷ Ὀδυσσεῖ” X.Mem.2.6.11; “χρὴ τὰ τοιαῦτα ὥσπερ ἐπᾴδειν ἑαυτῷ” Pl.Phd.114d, cf. 77e; “ἐ. ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς τοῦτον τὸν λόγον” Id.R.608a; ἐ. τινί sing to one so as to charm or soothe him, Id.Phdr.267d, Lg.812c, al.:—Pass., Porph.Chr.35: abs., use charms or incantations, Pl.Tht.157c; “ἐπαείδων” by means of charms, A.Ag.1021 (lyr.), cf. Pl.Lg.773d, Tht.149d.
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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