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φημίζω , aor.
A.“ἐφήμισα” A. (v. infr.), E. (v. infr.), Ep. subj. “-ίξω” Hes. Op.764, Dor. ἐφάμιξα （κατ-) Pi.O.6.56:—Med., aor. “ἐφημισάμην” A. (v. infr.), Ep. “-ιξάμην” D.P.90, Nonn.D.3.276:—Pass., fut. “φημισθήσομαι” Lyc.1082: aor. “ἐφημίσθην” Plu.2.264d, etc.: pf. “πεφήμισμαι” Str.1.2.12: (φήμη).
I. prophesy, utter, “ᾗ καὶ Αοξίας ἐφήμισε” A.Ch.558.
2. spread a report, “φήμην φ.” Hes.Op.764; “διαβολάς” J.BJ1.23.2, cf. Q.S.13.538, etc.:—Pass., “οἱ τεθνάναι φημισθέντες” Plu. l.c., cf. J.BJ1.29.4, Arr.Peripl.M.Eux.6, PGiss.19.4 (ii A. D.); “Μίνως ὀαριστὴς τοῦ Διὸς ἐφημίσθη εἶναι” Plot.6.9.7: abs., to be slandered, Supp.Epigr.4.648.12 (Lydia, ii A. D.).
3. call, name, “τινά τι” Call.Aet.3.1.14, 58, Nonn.D.9.23; “οὔνομα φ.” Opp.H.5.476:— Med., Euph.57.
4. promise, ἣν (sc. εὐνήν）“ ἐφήμισεν πατήρ μοι” E.IA1356; ὃ ἐφήμισεν . . παρασχέσθαι Sch.Call. in Διηγήσεις xi 3.
II. Med., express in words, “συντόμως ἐφημίσω” A.Ag.629, cf. 1162 (lyr.), 1173(lyr.):—Pass., Zos.Alch.p.169B.
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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