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εὑρίσκω , impf. ηὕρισκον or εὕρ- S.OT68, etc.: fut.
A.“εὑρήσω” h.Merc. 302, Th.7.67, etc.: aor. 2 “εὗρον” Il.1.498, etc., later ηὗρον or “εὗρον” E. Med.553, etc.; 3pl. “εὕροσαν” LXX De.31.17, BGU1201.16 (i A.D.); imper. εὑρέ Hdn.Gr.2.23; Ep. inf. “εὑρέμεναι” Od.12.393: later aor. 1 “εὕρησα” Man.5.137; εὗρα v.l. in Ev.Luc.8.35, Act.Ap.5.10, (ἐν-) PGen.3.19 (ii A.D.): pf. “εὕρηκα” S.OT546, etc., pf. imper. 2sg. “εὕρηκε” Nausicr.1 D.:—Med., fut. “εὑρήσομαι” Hdt.9.6, Lys.13.9, etc.: aor. 2 “εὑρόμην” Hom., Att. ηὑρ- or εὑρ- A.Pr.269, Th.1.58, etc.: aor.1 “εὑράμην” Hes.Fr.116.3 (testes omnes), Str.12.34.4, Iamb.VP35.255, AP9.29 (Antiphil.), Epigr. ap. Paus.6.20.14, Ep.Hebr.9.12, IG3.900 (ii A.D.):—Pass., fut. “εὑρεθήσομαι” S.OT108, E.IA1105, Isoc.9.41: aor. 1 ηὑρέθην or “εὑρέθην” S.Aj.1135, etc.: pf. ηὕρημαι or εὕρ- A.Pers.743 (troch), etc.—Hom. has only aor. Act.and Med., exc. ἔθ᾽ εὑρίσκω (v.l. ἐφευρίσκω) Od.19.158. (Earlier Att. Inscrr. have ηὑρέθην, ηὕρημαι, as IG22.1636.32, al., Epigr.Gr.35 (iv B.C.): “εὑρέθην” SIG679.80 (Magn. Mae., ii B.C.): the augm. is seldom found in Papyri, “ηὕρισκεν” PPetr. 3p.101 (iii B. C.); never in those of Men. or Phld.):—find, “εὗρεν δ᾽ εὐρύοπα Κρονίδην ἄτερ ἥμενον ἄλλων” Il.1.498, etc.; εὕρημα εὑ., v. εὕρημα.
2. c. part., find that . . , “εὕρισκε Λακεδαιμονίους . . προέχοντας” Hdt.1.56, cf. 1.5:—and in Pass., “ἤν εὑρεθῇς μὴ δίκαιος ὤν” S.Tr.411, cf. OT839, OC946: with part. omitted, ὅταν τοὺς θεοὺς εὕρω κακούς (sc. ὄντας) Id.Ph.452; εὑρήσει τοσαῦτα ἔτη (sc. ὄντα) Th.5.26; θῆλυς εὕρημαι (sc. ὤν) S.Tr.1075; “ἄνους ηὑρέθη” Id.Aj.763.
3. c. inf., εὕρισκε πρῆγμά οἱ εἶναι . . found that the thing for him was . . , Hdt.1.79:—Med., εὑρίσκεται (sed leg. εὕρισκέ τε） ταῦτα καιριώτατα εἶναι ib.125:—Act., also, find means, be able, “οὐχ εὑρίσκει χρήσασθαι” Arr.Epict.2.12.2.
4. εὑ. ὅπως . . to find by what means . . , Th.7.67:—Med., c.inf., find out or discover how to . . , “ηὕρετο . . παύειν” E.Med.196 (anap.).
5. Pass., εὑρέθη ὅτι . . it was found that . . , LXX 1 Es.2.22(26).
6. befall, of evils, τινα ib.Ge.44.34, De.31.17.
II. find out, discover, “οὐδέ τι μῆχος εὑρέμεναι δυνάμεσθα” Od. 12.393; “οὐδέ τι τέκμωρ εὑρέμεναι δύνασαι” 4.374, cf. Il.7.31; “εὑ. ὁδόν” Pi.P.10.29; “ἐξ ἀμηχάνων πόρον” A.Pr.59; “μηχανὴν σωτηρίας” Id.Th. 209; “πημάτων ἄρηξιν” S.El.875; “τινα ἐμοῦ βελτίονα” Ar.Pl.104, etc.: abs., “εὕρηκα” Archim. ap. Plu.2.1094c:—Med., “εὕρετο τέκμωρ” Il.16.472; ὄνομ᾽ εὕρεο think of a name to give him, Od.19.403; “εἴ τιν᾽ ἑταίροισιν θανάτου λύσιν . . εὑροίμην” 9.422.
2. c. inf., get a chance of, be able, “ἵνα εὕρωμεν ἐπιστολὴν γράψαι” BGU822.28 (ii/iii A.D.), cf. 17,20, PGrenf.1.64.3 (vi A.D.), etc.
III. devise, invent, “ὀχήματα” A.Pr. 468, etc.; “πρόφασιν” Antipho 5.65:—Med., τὰ δ᾽ ἔργα τοὺς λόγους εὑρίσκεται deeds make themselves words, S.El.625.
IV. get, gain, ἀρετάν, δόξαν, Pi.O.7.89, P.2.64; “τὰ χρήματ᾽ ἀνθρώποισιν εὑρίσκει φίλους” S.Fr.88; “ἐξ ὀλβίων ἄζηλον εὑροῦσαι βίον” Id.Tr.284, cf. E.Med. 1107 (anap.); “δεινὰ δ᾽ εὑροῦσαν πρὸς αὐθαίμων πάθη” S.OC1078 (lyr.); “ἀφ᾽ ὧν ὄνασιν εὕρωσι” Id.El.1061; μέγ᾽ εὑρεῖν κέρδος ib.1305; “εὑ. σωτηρίαν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ” Pl.Prt.321c; εὑ. μητρὶ φόνον bring about murder, E.El.650: abs., acquire wealth, LXX Le.25.47:—Med., find or get for oneself, bring on oneself, “οἷ . . αὐτῷ πρώτῳ κακὸν εὕρετο” Od.21.304 (so in Act., “μή πού τις ἐπίσπαστον κακὸν εὕρῃ” 24.462); “αὐτὸς ηὑρόμην πόνους” A.Pr.269; “μοῖραν ηὕρετ᾽ ἀσφαλῆ” Id.Ag.1588, cf. Th.880 (lyr.): so in pf. Pass., “μέγα πένθος ηὕρηται” S.Aj.615 (lyr.); εὑρήσεται τιμωρίην will get for himself, obtain, Hdt.3.148, cf.9.26; “ἀλεωρήν” Id.9.6; “κλέος” Pi.P.3.111; “ἄδειαν εὑρόμενος” And.1.15; “ἀτέλειαν” D.20.1; “εὑρίσκεσθαι ὠφελίαν ἀπό τινος” Th.1.31; “τι παρά τινος” IG12.108.47, Lys.13.9; εὑ. παρά τινος c. inf., procure from him that . . , Hdt.9.28; “δεηθέντες οὐκ ἐδύναντο εὑρέσθαι” Lys.14.20.
V. esp. of merchandise, etc., fetch, earn money, εὑροῦσα πολλὸν χρυσίον having fetched a large sum, Hdt. 1.196; “ηὗρε πλέον ἢ ἐνενήκοντα τάλαντα” X.HG3.4.24, cf. Vect.4.40; οἰκία εὑρίσκουσα δισχιλίας (sc. δραχμάς) Is.8.35; ἐγδίδομεν . . τοὺς θριγκοὺς . . ὅτι ἂν εὕρωσιν for what they will fetch, IG7.3073.7 (Lebad.); ἐρωτᾶν τί εὑρίσκει what it will fetch, Thphr.Char.15.4.
2. of the sum or bid which secures an article or contract, οἰκέτην . . ἀποδίδοται τοῦ εὑρόντος sells for what he will fetch, X.Mem.2.5.5; “τοῦ ἤδη εὑρίσκοντος ἀπεδίδοτο” Aeschin.1.96, cf. SIG966.37 (Attica, iv B.C.), 581.99 (Rhodes-Hierapytna, ii B.C.); ἐκτιθέτωσαν τὸ εὑρίσκον ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρας δέκα the highest or winning bid, PRev.Laws48.16 (iii B.C.), cf. UPZ112vi9 (iii B.C.); προσέβαλον αὐτῷ τοῦ εὑρίσκοντος ἀνὰ [x] ἱερεῖα [x] I have placed at his disposal [x] pigs at the current price of [x], PCair.Zen.161.5 (iii B.C.), cf. UPZ114(1).24 (ii B.C.).
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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