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ἐπιλέγω ,
A.say in connexion with an action, etc., Hdt.2.35,64, etc.; ποιεῖν τι καὶ ἐπιλέγειν say while or after doing it, Id.4.65; παίζουσιν “ἐπιλέγοντες” Id.5.4; “ἐ. λόγον τόνδε, ὡς . . ” Id.2.156, 8.49; ἐξηπάτων . . “ἐπιλέγων τοιαυτί” Ar.Eq.418; ἐ. τεκμήρια τὴν ἄλλην αὐτοῦ . . παρανομίαν citing it as proof, Th.6.28, cf. Alciphr.3.56.
2.. say besides, ἑκάστῳ "σοὶ μέν κτλ." X.Cyr..1.3.7, cf. Arist.Rh.1395a27, Ph.1.512; τὴν αἰτίαν ἐ. Arist.Rh.1417a28:—Med., repeat, D.H.Rh..11.5:—Pass., [τὰ] “ἐπιλεγόμενα” Arist.Rh..1394a13.
3.. call by name, Hdt.5.70; ἐπέλεγον δὲ κιθαρῳδικούς (sc. νόμους) Pl.Lg.700b:—Med., A.Supp.49 (lyr.):— Pass., to be surnamed, J.AJ13.10.4.
4.. utter, pronounce a spell (cf.ἐπεῖπον ）“, ῥῆσιν μυστικήν” Ath.11.496b; “ῥῆσίν τινα μακράν” Luc.Nec. 7; “τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐπιλέγειν τῷ λοιμῷ " φεῦγ᾽ ἐς κόρακας "” Arist.Fr. 496, cf.Pr.926b23, EN1109b11.
5.. attribute, τινὶ τὸ καλόν, τὸ χρήσιμον, Id.Pol.1323b12; “ἐ. τοῖς εὖ ἔχουσιν ἔργοις, ὅτι . . ” Id.EN1106b10.
6.. say against one, App.BC3.18.
II.. pick out, select, Hdt. 3.44, 81; ἔκ τινων πεζούς Wilcken Chr.11 A 35 (ii B.C.):—freq. in Med., τῶν Βαβυλωνίων ἐπελέξατο he chose him certain of the Babylonians, Hdt.3.157, cf.6.73, Th.7.19, Arist.Fr.151, Wilcken Chr.11 A 49 (ii B.C.), D.S.3.74:—Pass., ἐπιλελεγμένοι or ἐπειλεγμένοι chosen men, X.Cyr.3.3.41, Isoc.4.146, POxy.1210.4 (i B.C.), etc.; “οἱ ἐπιλεγέντες” SIG577.72 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.).
III.. Med., think upon, think over, “ταῦτα” Hdt.1.78, 2.120, al., cf.Ant.Lib.5.4; μὴ ἐ. not to care, Hdt. 7.236, al.; οὐδαμὰ ἐ. μή κοτε . . to have no fear lest . ., Id.3.65, cf. 7.149: c.inf., πᾶν ἐπιλεγόμενος πείσεσθαι expecting . . , Id.7.49, cf. 52: rare in Trag., μηδ᾽ ἐπιλεχθῇς Ἀγαμεμνονίαν εἶναί μ᾽ ἄλοχον deem me not to be . ., A.Ag.1498 (anap.).
2.. in Hdt. also, con over, read, τὸ βυβλίον, τὰ γράμματα, 1.124,125,2.125, al., cf. Paus.1.12.3, al., Hld.4.8: so in Act., Them.Or.11.153a.
3.. recount, in speaking, “τὴν αἰσχύνην καὶ τὸν κίνδυνον” D.H.9.57.
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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