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ἐπικηρ-ύσσω , Att. ἐπικήρ-ττω , pf.
A.“-κεκήρυχα” D.19.21:—proclaim, ἐπικηρυχθεὶς χθονί proclaimed king, A.Th.634; “ἐ. πόλεμόν τινι” D.C.78.38 (Pass.).
2.. esp. of penalties, ἐ. θάνατον τὴν ζημίαν ὃς ἂν . . proclaim death as the penalty, X.HG1.1.15; ἐ. ἀργύριον ἐπί τινι set a price on his head, Hdt.7.214 (but ἀργύριον, of a money penalty, Arist.Oec. 1351b31); χρήματά τινι ἐ. D.I.c.; λάφυρον κατά τινων issue letters of marque, Plb.4.26.7:—Pass., “καί οἱ φυγόντι . . ἀργύριον ἐπεκηρύχθη” Hdt.7.213; τὰ ἐπικηρυχθέντα χρήματα the price set upon one's head, Nymphod.12, cf. Plu. Them.26; but also ὁ ἐπικηρυχθείς the proscribed person, outlaw, D.C.37.10 (pl.).
3.. offer as a reward, χρημάτων “πλῆθος τοῖς ἀνελοῦσι” D.S.14.8, cf. D.C.56.43; “τὸ -κηρυχθὲν τῷ ἀγαγόντι” Plu.Them.29: c. inf., “τάλαντον δώσειν τῷ ἀπαγαγόντι” Lys.6.18.
II.. put up to public auction, “τὰς ὠνάς” PEdgar64.4 (iii B.C.), cf. PRev.Laws48.13 (iii B.C.), SIG975.6 (Delos, iii B.C., Pass.), v.I. for ἀποκ. in Plu.Cam.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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