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κερδ-αίνω , fut. -
A.“α^νῶ” A.Pr.876, Lys.8.20, etc.; Ion. -ανέω Hdt.1.35, 8.60.γ́; “κερδήσω” AP9.390 (Menecr.), Ep.Jac.4.13, “κερδήσομαι” Hdt.3.72: aor. 1 “ἐκέρδα_να” Pi.I.5(4).27, And.1.134 codd., etc.; Ion. -ηνα Hom.Epigr.14.6, Hdt.8.5, also “ἐκέρδησα” Id.4.152, Hld.4.13, etc.: pf. “κεκέρδαγκα” D.C.53.5, “κεκέρδα^κα” Aristid.1.366 J., Ach.Tat.5.25, Phalar.Ep.81.2, etc., “κεκέρδηκα” D.56.30 (προς-), J.BJ1.20.2:— Pass., aor. part. “κερδανθείς” Phld.Oec.p.67 J.: pf. “κεκερδημένος” J.AJ 18.6.5: (κέρδος):—gain, derive profit or advantage, κακὰ κ. make unfair gains, Hes.Op.352; “μέγιστα ἐκ φορτίων” Hdt.4.152; τί κερδανῶ; what shall I gain? Ar.Nu.259; κ. τινί gain by a thing, E.HF604; “σμικρὰ κερδανῶ φυγῇ” A.Ag.1301; “κέρδος κ.” S.OT889 (lyr.); “κ. ἓξ τάλαντα” And. l. c.; “τὸν χρόνον κερδαίνει ὃν ἔζη οὐ προσῆκον αὐτῷ” Lys.13.84; κ. λόγον win fame, Pi.I.5(4).27; χρηστὰ κ. ἔπη receive fair words, S.Tr.231: c. part., gain by doing . . , “εἰ δὲ κερδανῶ λέγων” E.Hel.1051 (prob.); “πολεμοῦντες οὐ κερδαίνομεν” Ar.Av.1591, cf. Th.5.93; “οὐδὲν ἐκμαθοῦσα κερδανεῖς” A.Pr.876; Μεγάροισι κερδανέομεν περιεοῦσι we shall gain by Megara's preservation, Hdt.8.60.γ́; also κ. ὅτι . . Hp. Art.46:—Pass., τὰ κερδανθέντα Phld.l.c.
2. abs., make profit, gain advantage, Hdt.8.5, Ar.Pl.520; “τοῦ κ. ἔχου” S.Fr.28, cf. 354; ἐξ ἅπαντος, ἀπὸ παντός, Id.Ant.312, X.Mem.2.9.4; “παρά τινων” Lys.20.7; “πρὸς σοῦ” S.Tr.191; opp. τὸ τιμᾶσθαι, Th.2.44; traffic, make merchandise, S.Ant.1037.
II. in bad sense, reap disadvantage from a thing, “διπλᾶ δάκρυα κ.” E.Hec.518; “κερδᾶναι τὸν πολὺ χείρω βίον ἀντὶ θανάτου” X.Ap.9.
III. save or spare oneself, avoid, “μεγάλα κακά” Philem. 92.10; “ὕβριν” Act.Ap.27.21; “τὸ μὴ μιανθῆναι τὰς χεῖρας” J.AJ2.3.2; “ἐνόχλησιν” D.L.7.14, cf. Him.Or.2.26, AP10.59 (Pall.).
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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