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κλέπτω , Ion. impf.
A.“κλέπτεσκον” Hdt.2.174: fut. “κλέψω” Ar.Ec.667, etc., “κλέψομαι” X.Cyr.7.4.13: aor. “ἔκλεψα” Il.5.268, etc.: pf. “κέκλοφα” Ar.Pl.369, 372, Pl.Lg.941d; later part. “κεκλεβώς” IG5(1).1390.75 (Andania, i B.C.):—Pass., aor. 1 “ἐκλέφθην” Hdt.5.84, E.Or.1580: aor. 2 ἐκλάπην [α^] Pl.R.413b, X.Eq.Mag.4.17; later part. “κλεπείς” BGU454.19 (ii A.D.): pf. “κέκλεμμαι” S.Ant.681, Ar.V.57. (Cf. Lat. clěpere, Goth. hlifan (κλέπτειν), hliftus (κλέπτης)):—steal, c. acc. or abs., Il.24.24, 71, 109; τῆς γενεῆς ἔκλεψε from that breed Anchises stole, i.e. foals of that breed, 5.268; “κλέπτουσιν ἐφ᾽ ἁρπαγῇ ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος” Sol.4.13; “κ. μοιχεύειν τε” Xenoph.11.3; “ἢν μηδὲν μήτε κλέπτῃ μήτε ἀδικῇ” Democr.253; “κ. τι παρ᾽ ἀλλήλων” Hdt.1.186; “κ. ἐξ ἱερῶν” Pl.Lg.857b; carry off, “κλέψεν Μήδειαν” Pi.P.4.250; πυρὸς σέλας κ., of Prometheus, A.Pr.8; “κλέψαι τε χἀρπάσαι βίᾳ” S.Ph. 644; κ. τοὺς μηνύοντας spirit away the deponents, Antipho 5.38; ἐξ ἐπάλξεων πλεκταῖσιν ἐς γῆν σῶμα κ. let it down secretly, E.Tr.958, cf. 1010; κ. μορφάς, of painters, steal forms (by transferring them to canvas), Luc.Epigr.41.
2. in part. Act., thievish, κλέπτον βλέπει he has a thief s look, Ar.V.900; κλέπτον τὸ χρῆμα τἀνδρός he's an arrant thief, ib.933.
II. c.acc. pers., cozen, cheat, “πάρφασις, ἥ τ᾽ ἔκλεψε νόον” Il.14.217; οὐκ ἔστι Διὸς κλέψαι νόον Hes: Th.613; “μὴ κλέπτε νόῳ” Il.1.132; κλέπτει νιν οὐ θεός, οὐ βροτός, ἔργοις οὔτε “βουλαῖς” Pi.P.3.29; “σοφία κλέπτει παράγοισα μύθοις” Id.N.7.23; “οὔτοι φρέν᾽ ἂν κλέψειεν” A.Ch.854, cf. S.Tr.243, etc.; “τὴν γνώμην” Hp.Epid. 5.27; “κ. τὴν ἀκρόασιν” Aeschin.3.99:—Pass., “κλέπτεται ὁ ἀκροατής” Arist.Rh.1408b5; προβαίνειν κλεπτόμενος to go on blindfold, Hdt.7.49; κλέπτεταί οἱ ἡ αὐγή his vision becomes deceptive, Hp.Morb.2.12; “κλαπέντες ἢ βιασθέντες τοῦτο πάσχουσιν” Pl.R.l.c.: impers., κλέπτεται the deception is passed off, Arist.Rh.1404b24.
III. conceal, keep secret, “θεοῖο γόνον” Pi.O.6.36; “θυμῷ δεῖμα” Id.P.4.96; disguise, διαβολαῖς νέαις κλέψας τὰ πρόσθε σφάλματ' E.Supp.416; “τοῖς ὀνόμασι κ. τὰ πράγματα” Aeschin.3.142; “τοὺς ἑαυτῶν κ.” X.Eq.Mag.5.2; “κ. ἑαυτὸν ὀφθαλμῶν τε καὶ ὤτων” Philostr.VS1.7.2; “κ. τοῦ διανοήματος τὴν ἄδειαν” Demetr.Eloc.239:—Pass., κλέπτεται τὸ μετρικόν ib.182, cf. Them.in Ph.276.26, Paul.Aeg.6.103.
IV. do secretly or treacherously. δόλοισι κ. σφαγάς execute slaughter by secret frauds, S.El.37; “πόλλ᾽ ἂν . . λάθρᾳ σὺ κλέψειας κακά” Id.Aj.1137; κ. μύθους whisper malicious rumours, ib.188(lyr.); κλέπτων ἢ βιαζόμενος by fraud or open force, Pl.Lg.933e; ταῦτα κλέπτοντες ταῖς πράξεσιν, i.e. λάθρᾳ πράττοντες, ib.910b; κλεπτομένη λαλιά secret, clandestine, Luc.Am.15, etc.
2. seize or occupy secretly, “τὰ ὄρη” X.An.5.6.9, cf. 4.6.11, 15; “τὴν ἀρχήν” D.H.4.10.
3. effect or bring about clandestinely, “γάμον κ. δώροις” Theoc.22.151:—Pass., to be 'smuggled in', Arist.Rh.Al.1440b21.
4. get rid of imperceptibly, τὸ δοκεῖν . . D.H.Rh.8.7; “τῇ ποικιλίᾳ τὸν κόρον” Id.Comp.19:—Pass., “τοῦ πόσου κλεπτομένου” Plot.4.7.5.
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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