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γνωρ-ίζω , fut.Att.-ι^ῶ: pf.
A.“ἐγνώρικα” Pl.Phdr.262b:—make known, point out, A.Pr.487, LXX 1 Ki.10.8, al., Ep.Rom.0.22:—in this sense mostly Pass., become known, Pl.R.428a, Arist.APr.64b35; “τὰ γνωριζόμενα μέρη τῆς οἰκουμένης” Plb.2.37.4.
2. c. acc. pers., make known, “τινά τινι” Plu.Fab.21; commend, “τινὰ τῇ βουλῇ ἰσχυρῶς” App. Mac.9.6.
3. certify a person's identity, BGU581.13 (ii A. D.), POxy. 1024.18 (ii A. D.).
II. gain knowledge of, become acquainted with, discover, c. part., “τοὔργον ὡς οὐ γνωριοῖμί σου τόδε δόλῳ προσέρπον” S. OT538; “τὰ καλὰ γ. οἱ εὐφυέες πρὸς αὐτά” Democr.56, cf. E.Alc.564, Th.7.44, Arist.Ph.184a12:—Pass., Th.5.103, Men.72; γ. περί τι or “περί τινος” Arist.Metaph.1005b8, 1037a16.
2. become acquainted with, “τινά” Pl.La.181c, D.35.6; “τινὰς ὁποῖοί τινές εἰσι” Isoc.2.28:— Pass., ἐγνωρισμένοι αὐτῷ being made acquainted with him, ibid.; “πρός τινος” Luc.Tim.5.
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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 487
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    • Polybius, Histories, 2.37.4
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