A.“-ψω” Hdt.1.95, etc.: aor. ἔγραψα, Ep. “γράψα” Il.17.599: pf. “γέγραφα” Cratin.124, Th.5.26, etc.; later “γεγράφηκα” PHib. 1.78.2 (iii B. C.):—Med., fut. “γράψομαι” Ar.Pax 107, etc. (but in pass. sense, Gal.Protr.13): aor. “ἐγραψάμην” Ar.V.894, etc.:—Pass., fut. “γρα^φήσομαι” Hp.Acut.26, Nicom.Com.1.39, (μετεγ-) Ar.Eq.1370; more freq. “γεγράψομαι” S.OT411, Theoc.18.47, etc.: aor. ἐγράφην [α^], Hdt.4.91, Pl.Prm.128c, etc.; “ἐγράφθην” SIG57.5 (Milet., v B. C.), Archim.Fluit.2.4: pf. γέγραμμαι (also in med. sense, v. fin.), 3sg. “ἔγραπται” Opp.C.3.274; part. ἐγραμμένος or “ἠγρ-” SIG9 (Elis, dub.), Leg.Gort.1.45, al.; later “γεγράφημαι” Ph.2.637: 3pl. “γεγράφαται” IG 12.57.10, Dor. “γεγράβανται” Schwyzer 90.12 (Argos): plpf. “ἐγέγραπτο” X.Mem.1.2.64: 3pl. “ἐγεγράφατο” D.C.56.32. Used by Hom. only in aor. Act.:—scratch, graze, “αἰχμὴ γράψεν οἱ ὀστέον ἄχρις” Il.17.599; γράψας ἐν πίνακι πτυκτῷ θυμοφθόρα πολλά having marked or drawn signs thereon, 6.169: hence, later, represent by lines, draw, paint, Hdt.2.41, A.Eu.50, Pl.R.377e; γῆς περιόδους γ. draw maps, Hdt.4.36; “γ. Ἔρωθ᾽ ὑπόπτερον” Eub.41.1; “προσπεπατταλευμένον γ. τὸν Προμηθέα” Men.535.2; “ἀνδριάντα γ.” Pl.R.420c; ζῷα γ., = ζωγραφεῖν (q. v.), Id.Grg.453c: metaph., “ὁπόσα τοὺς λειμῶνας αἱ ὧραι γράφουσι” Philostr.Im.Praef.:—Med., “ζῷα γράφεσθαι” Hdt.4.88:—Pass., “εἰκὼν γεγραμμένη” Ar.Ra.537; “πίνακες γεγραμμένοι τὰ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἔργα” Philostr.VA2.20.
2. Math., describe a figure, Euc.Post.3, al., Archim.Sph.Cyl.1.23, al., Gal.1.47.
b. of a point or line in motion, generate a figure, Arist.Mech.848b10, al.; “τὸ σαμεῖον ἕλικα γράψει” Archim.Sph.Cyl.1, cf.Apollon.Perg.Con.1.2, Hero Aut.8.1.
II. express by written characters, write, τι Hdt.1.125, etc.; “γ. διαθήκην” Pl.Lg.923c, cf. X.Cyr.4.5.34 (Pass.); γ. τινὶ ὅτι . . Th.7.14; γ. τινί, c. inf., SIG552.13 (Abae, iii B. C.); “γ. τι εἰς διφθέρας” Hdt.5.58: prov., “ὅρκους . . γυναικὸς εἰς ὕδωρ γράφω” S.Fr.811, cf. Xenarch.6; “εἰς τέφραν γ.” Philonid.7; εἰς ὕδωρ, ἐν ὕδατι, Men. Mon.25, Pl.Phdr.276c; “ἐν χρυσῷ πίνακι” Id.Criti.120c; “ἐν φλοιῷ” Theoc.18.47; “καθ᾽ ὕδατος” Luc.Cat.21; “εἰς πέλαγος γράμματα γράψαι” Epigr.Gr.1038.8 (Attalia):—Pass., πόθι φρενὸς γέγραπται in what leaf of memory it is written, Pi.O.10(11).3.
2. inscribe, γ. εἰς σκῦλα, εἰς στήλην, E.Ph.574, D.9.41:—Pass., γράφεσθαί τι to be inscribed with a thing, S.Tr.157; “ὧδε γέγραμμαι” have my name inscribed, IG12(7).3* (dub.); ἐν τῷ προσώπῳ γραφεὶς τὴν συμφοράν having it branded on his forehead, Pl.Lg.854d; γεγραμμένα κωκύουσαν, of the hyacinth, Euph.40.
3. write down, γ. τινὰ αἴτιον set him down as the cause, Hdt.7.214; γ. τι ἱερόν τινι register as . . , Pi.O.3.30; in magic, invoke a curse upon, Tab.Defix.Aud.14A1; γ. τινὰ κληρονόμον, ἐπίτροπον, institute by a written document, Pl.Lg.923c, 924a; register, enrol, “ἐμὲ γράφε τῶν ἱππεύειν ὑπερεπιθυμούντων” X.Cyr. 4.3.21; οὐ Κρέοντος προστάτου γεγράψομαι, as a dependent of Cr., S. OT411.
4. γ. τινί write a letter to one, “γ. σοὶ ἵνα εἰδῇς” PGrenf. 1.11 ii 21 (ii B. C.), etc.; “εἴς τινα” Luc.Syr.D.23.
5. γ. περί τίνος write on a subject, X.Cyn.13.2, etc.; “ὑπέρ τινος” Plb.1.1.4, etc.; εἴς τινα against . . , Longin.4.3; πρός τινα address a work to . . , Id.1.3; describe, “οἱ ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν γραφόμενοι καιροί” Plb.2.56.4; esp. of Prose, opp. ποιεῖν, Isoc.2.48: c. dupl. acc., “τί . . γράψειειν ἄν σε μουσοποιὸς ἐν τάφῳ” ; E.Tr.1189.
6. write down a law to be proposed: hence, propose, move, γνώμην, νόμον, ψήφισμα, etc., X.HG1.7.34, Ar.Nu. 1429, etc.: abs. (sc. νόμον), D.18.179; “γ. καὶ νομοθετεῖν περί τινος” Id.24.48; γ. πόλεμον, εἰρήνην, Id.10.55, 19.55: c. inf., “σὺ γράφεις ταῦτ᾽ εἶναι στρατιωτικά” Id.1.19; “ἔγραψα . . ἀποπλεῖν . . τοὺς πρέσβεις” Id.18.25; enact, “νόμοι οὓς τὸ πλῆθος συνελθὸν ἔγραψε” X.Mem.1.2.42:—Pass., “παρὰ τὰ γραφέντα δρᾶν” Pl.Plt.295d; “τὸ γεγραμμένον ὑπὸ σοῦ ψήφις μα” Din.1.70.
8. ὁ γράφων τὸν Ὀξυρυγχίτην (sc. νομόν) the secretary for the nome of Oxyrhynchus, POxy.239.1 (i A. D.); “τῷ ἰδίῳ λόγῳ γράφοντι τὸν νομόν” PFlor.358.5 (ii A. D.).
B. Med., write for oneself or for one's own use, note down, Hdt. 2.82, IG12.57.39, etc.; “γ. τι ἐν φρεσίν” A.Ch.450 (lyr.); “φρενῶν ἔσω” S.Ph.1325; ἐγραψάμην ὑπομνήματα I wrote me down some memoranda, Pl.Tht.143a; cause to be written, “συγγραφήν” D.56.6, etc.; γ. πρόσοδον πρὸς τὴν βουλήν petition for a hearing before the Council, Id.24.48.
2. enrol oneself, “γράψασθαι φυλῆς καὶ δήμου καὶ φρατρίας” IG12.374.16, ib.2.115b21: abs., of colonists, Pl.Lg.850b; but also (cf. A.11.3), ἕνα τῶν μαθητῶν ἐμὲ γράφου enrol me as one of your disciples, Id.Cra.428b.
3. as law-term, γ. τινά to indict one, τινός for some public offence, e.g. τῆς αἰσχροκερδείας, Pl.Lg. 754e; “γ. [τινὰ] παρανόμων” D.18.13; in full, “γραφὴν γράψασθαί τινα” Ar.Nu.1482 (but in Pass., εἴ σοι γράφοιτο δίκη ib.758); “γράψασθαι δίκας” SIG344.38 (Teos): c. acc. et inf., “γ. τινὰ ἀδικεῖν” Ar.V.894, cf. Pax107: abs., οἱ γραψάμενοι the prosecutors, Id.V.881; “ἑτέροις οὐκ ἦν γράψασθαι” And.1.75; also γράφεσθαί τι indict an act, i. e. the doer of it, as criminal, ἐγράψατο τὴν Χαβρίου δωρειάν he brought a γραφὴ παρανόμων against the person who proposed the grant to Chabrias, D.20.146, cf. 95; τὸ χάριν τούτων ἀποδοῦναι παρανόμων γράφει (2sg.) Id.18.119.
b. Pass., to be indicted, “γραφεὶς ἀπέφυγον” D.18.103; τοῦτο τὸ ψήφισμα ἐγράφη παρανόμων was indicted as illegal, Aeschin.3.62; ψηφίσματα ὑπὸ τούτου οὐδὲ γραφέντα not even indicted, D.18.222 (but in 18.28, εἰ μὴ τοῦτ᾽ ἐγράφη if this decree had not been proposed, as Pass. of A. 11.6); τὰ γεγραμμένα the articles of the indictment, Id.18.56; τὸ γεγραμμένον the penalty named in the indiclment, Id.24.83:—but γέγραμμαι usu. takes the sense of the Med., indict, Id.18.59, 119, cf. Pl.Euthphr.2b, Tht.210d.
