Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἡμερ-όω

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3. of countries, clear them of robbers and wild beasts, as Hercules and Theseus did, “ναυτιλίαισι πορθμὸν ἁμερώσαις” Pi.I.4(3).57; “χθόνα ἀνήμερον τιθέντες ἡμερωμένην” A.Eu.14; or to cultivate them, Thphr.CP5.15.6,al.

4. of men also, civilize, humanize, “λόγῳ” Pl.R.554d; ἁρμονίᾳ τε καὶ ῥυθμῷ ib.442a; “δίκη πάντα ἡμέρωκεν τὰ ἀνθρώπινα” Id.Lg.937e; “τὸ θυμούμενον” Eus.Mynd.1:— Pass., “ὑπὸ παιδείας” Pl.Lg.935a.

b. tame by conquest, subdue, “ἡμερώσας δὲ Αἴγυπτον ἐξυβρίσασαν” Hdt.7.5:—Med., “πᾶν ἔθνος ἡμερούμενος βασιλέϊ” Id.5.2, cf. 4.118:—Pass., πόθεν σου ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς ἡμέρωται; whence that crest-fallen look? Mim.Oxy.413.153.

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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