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καταφημ-ίζω , aor. -εφήμισα, Dor. -εφάμιξα Pi.O.6.56:—Pass., pf. -πεφήμισμαι (v. infr.):—
A.spread abroad, announce, κατεφάμιξεν καλεῖσθαί νιν Pi.l.c.; λίμνη Μαιῶτις, ἣν μητέρα . . τοῦ Πόντου κ. made it known as . . , Dion. Byz.2:—Pass., καταπεφήμισται it is rumoured, Plb.16.12.3; of persons, become notorious or infamous, Vett. Val. 118.5.
II. assign or dedicate to a god, “τὰ τοῖς θεοῖς καταπεφημισμένα” Plb.5.10.8; “θρόνος Ἀλεξάνδρῳ -ισμένος” Plu.Eum.13, cf. Jul. Or.4.156c.
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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    • Pindar, Olympian, 2
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.12.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.10.8
    • Plutarch, Eumenes, 13
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