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ἐπιβουλ-εύω , Dor. ἐπιβουλ-βωλεύω SIG527.145 (Dreros, iii B.C.):—
A.plot, contrive against, c. dat. pers. et acc. rei, “ἐ. <κακὸν> πόλει” Tyrt.4.8; “ἐπανάστασίν τινι” Hdt.3.119; θάνατόν τινι ib.122, And.4.15; “τοὺς θανάτους τοῖς πέλας” Antipho 1.28; “κατάλυσιν τῇ τυραννίδι” Th.6.54.
b.. c. dat. only, plot against, lay snares for, “τῇ πόλει” A. Th.29 codd., SIGl.c.; “τῷ πλήθει” Ar.Pl.570, Th.6.60; “θεοῖς” Pl.R. 378c; “τῇ πολιτείᾳ” D.8.40: c. dat. rei, tamper with, σφραγῖδι Cat.Cod. Astr.2.193: abs., οὑπιβουλεύων the plotter, S.OT618, cf. Pl.Lg.856c, Arist.EN1135b33: also in aor.1 Med., plot, Arr.Epict.4.1.160.
c. .c.acc. rei only, plan secretly, “τὸν ἔκπλουν” Th.7.51; “ἀπόστασιν” Id.8.60, etc.
2.. c.dat. rei, form designs upon, aim at, “πρήγμασι μεγάλοισι” Hdt.3.122; “ἀνδριάντι” Id.1.183; “τυραννίδι” Pl.Grg.473c, etc.; ἔργοις “τοιούτοις” Lys.28.8.
3.. c. inf., purpose or design to do, Ἀρίονα “ἐκβαλόντες ἔχειν τὰ χρήματα” Hdt.1.24; “ἐπιχειρήσειν” Id.6.137; “ποιεῖν” Ar.Pl.1111; “ἐξελθεῖν” Th.3.20; “καταλῦσαι τὴν δημοκρατίαν” Lys.13.12; “ἀποκτεινύναι” Pl.R.566b; also “ἐ. ὅπως . . ” X.Cyr.1.4.13: abs., Th.3.82.
4.. to be injurious, “δριμύτητα τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς -εύουσαν” Paul.Aeg. 6.9.
II.. Pass., with fut. Med. -εύσομαι (in pass. sense) X.Cyr. 5.4.34: fut. Pass. “-ευθήσομαι” D.C.52.33: aor. “-εβουλεύθην” Antipho 4.2.6, Th.1.82, D.22.1, Men.481.15, etc. (but v. supr. 1.1 b):—to have plots formed against one, to be the object of plots, Antiphol.c.; ὑπό τινος Th.4.60, 64, Isoc.4.140; εἰς χρήματα D.l.c.
2.. of things, to be designed against, “πρᾶγμα . . , ὃ τοῖς θεοῖς . . ἐπιβουλεύεται” Ar.Pax 404: abs., Antipho 2.1.1, Th.3.96; τὰ ἐπιβουλευόμενα plots, X.Eq.Mag.9.8.
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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