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εὐθυ?ν-ω , (εὐθύς) = the Homeric ἰθύνω (which is a freq. v.l., as in A.Pers.773): —
A.guide straight, direct, “οἰωνὸν γνώμῃ στομίων ἄτερ εὐθύνων” Id.Pr.289; “εὐ. ἡνίας” Ar.Av.1739 (lyr.); [ἅρματα] Isoc.1.32; εὐ. δόρυ steer the bark straight, E.Cyc.15; “εὐ. πλάτην” Id.Hec.39; “ὁ εὐθύνων” the helmsman, Ep.Jac.3.4; εὐ. ἀγέλας lead or drive them, X.Cyr.1.1.2; εὐ. χερσί manage, guide him, S.Aj.542; “εὐ. πόδα” E.Heracl.728, etc.
2. metaph., direct, govern, “Κύρου δὲ παῖς . . ηὔθυνε στρατόν” A.Pers.773; “πᾶσαν εὐθύνων πόλιν” S.Ant.178, cf. 1164, E.Hec.9, Pl.Min.320d.
3. make straight, straighten, opp. “κάμπτειν, πτέρυγας” Arist.IA709b10:— Pass., Id.Mete.385b32.
II. make or put straight, εὐ. δίκας σκολιάς make crooked judgements straight, Sol.4.37; “εὐ. λαοῖς δίκας” Pi.P.4.153; εὐ. οὖρον send a straight fair wind, Id.O.13.28; “εὐ. ὄλβον” Id.P. 1.46; “ὥσπερ ξύλον διαστρεφόμενον . . εὐ. ἀπειλαῖς καὶ πληγαῖς” Pl.Prt. 325d, cf. 326e.
III. examine the conduct of an official, Id.Plt. 299a; “εὐ. τὰς ἀρχάς” Arist.Pol.1271a6, 1274a17, al.:—Pass., c. gen., -“όμενος τῆς ἐφορείας” Id.Rh.1419a31.
2. c. gen. criminis, call to account for . . , “τινα κλοπῆς” Plu.Cic.9:—Pass., τῶν ἀδικημάτων ηὐθύνθη Th.1.95; οἱ -όμενοι the culprits, Mitteis Chr.31 iii 10 (ii B.C.), cf. Notiz.Arch.4.21 (Cyrene, i B.C.): c. dat., “εὐ. φόνῳ” PTeb.14.4 (ii B.C.); to be mulcted, punished, “ἐπί τινι” D.C.Fr.90, al.: abs., IG12.41.6; ἑκατὸν δραχμῆσι ib.4.15, al.
3. generally, refute or censure, “τοὺς λόγους τινός” Phld.Piet.67; “τὴν Φιλίστου διάλεκτον” Plu.Nic.1:—Pass., to be refuted, “δι᾽ αὐτῶν τῶν φαινομένων” Phld.Sign.30, cf. Plot.3.6.13; but also, to be critically examined, Id.4.6.13.
4. examine by torture, Procop.Goth.3.32 (Pass).
IV. intr., serve as εὔθυνος, Pl.Lg.946d.
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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