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ἐπικουρ-έω ,
A.to be an ἐπίκουρος, act as an ally, once in Hom., ἑ Μοῖρα “ἦγ᾽ ἐπικουρήσοντα μετὰ Πρίαμον” Il.5.614, cf. Th.7.57; φίλοις, χθονί, E.Rh.937,956; render aid, Foed. ap. Th.5.23, etc.
2.. serve as allies or mercenaries, Isoc.4.168; μισθοῦ ἐ. Pl.R.575b.
II.. generally, aid or help at need, “τινί” E.IA 1452, Ar.V.1018, Lys.12.98; [τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ] Pl.R.368c; also τῇ ἀναγκαίᾳ τροφῇ ἐ. provide for it, Aeschin. 1.27; νόσοις ἐπικουρῆσαι remedy them, aid one against them, X.Mem. 1.4.13; ἐ. τῷ λιμῷ, τῷ γήρᾳ, τῇ πενίᾳ, Id.Lac.2.6, 10.2, Vect.1.1 (Pass.); ἐσθὴς ἐπικουρεῖ τινι πολλά `does him yeoman's service', Id.Cyr.6.2.30.
2.. c.acc. rei, ἐπικουρεῖν τινι χειμῶνα keep it off from one, Id.An.5.8.25.
3.. c. acc. et dat.,furnish, supply, POxy.1630.5 (iii A.D.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (18):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 27
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 1018
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 1452
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 937
    • Euripides, Rhesus, 956
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.614
    • Isocrates, Panegyricus, 168
    • Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, 98
    • Plato, Republic, 368c
    • Plato, Republic, 575b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.23
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.8.25
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 6.2.30
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.4.13
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 10.2
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 2.6
    • Xenophon, Ways and Means, 1.1
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