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κοσμ-έω ,
A.order, arrange, esp. set an army in array, marshal it, Il.14.379; “κοσμῆσαι ἵππους τε καὶ ἀνέρας” 2.554:—Pass., “ἐπεὶ κόσμηθεν ἅμ᾽ ἡγεμόνεσσιν ἕκαστοι” 3.1; πένταχα κοσμηθέντες marshalled in five bodies, 12.87; of a population, “διὰ τρίχα κοσμηθέντες” 2.655; once in Od., of hunters, “διὰ δὲ τρίχα κοσμηθέντες” 9.157:—Med., κοσμησάμενος πολιήτας having arranged his men, Il.2.806; so after Homer, κ. στρατόν (v.l. for κοιμήσων) E.Rh.662; “τάξεις κεκοσμημέναι” X.Cyr.2.1.26, cf. Pl.Phdr.247a; “ἐπὶ τάξις πλεῦνας ἐκεκοσμέατο” Hdt.9.31.
2. generally, arrange, prepare, “δόρπον ἐκόσμει” Od. 7.13; “κ. ἀοιδήν η” Bacch.59; “ἔργα” Hes.Op.306; “στέφανον” E.Hipp.74; “τράπεζαν” X.Cyr.8.2.6; “εἰς τάφον λέβητα” S.El.1401:—Pass., “δεῖπνον κεκόσμηται” Pi.N.1.22; δεῖ οὕτω κοσμηθῆναι ὅκως . . Democr.266; τὸ κοσμηθὲν αἷμα, = τὸνοἰκεῖον κόσμον κτησάμενον, Gal.5.551.
II. order, rule, “τὴν πόλιν κ. καλῶς τε καὶ εὖ” Hdt.1.59, cf. S.Aj.1103; “Σπάρτην ἔλαχες, κείνην κόσμει” E.Fr.723 (anap.); κ. ἐμαυτόν restrain myself, Id.Hyps.Fr.34(60).46; “τὰ ἄλλα ἐκεκοσμέατό οἱ” Hdt.1.100; “τόν γε νοῦν κοσμοῦντα πάντα κοσμεῖν” Pl.Phd.97 c:—Pass., τὰ κοσμούμενα orderly institutions, S.Ant.677: pf.part., of persons, orderly, “ταπεινὸς καὶ κεκοσμημένος” Pl.Lg.716a; “τεταγμένον τε καὶ κ. πρᾶγμα” Id.Grg. 504 a.
2. in Crete, hold office of “κόσμος” 111, “οἱ κεκοσμηκότες” Arist. Pol.1272a35, cf. Plb.22.15.1; Cret. κοσμίω Leg.Gort.1.51, etc.; also κορμίω (q.v.).
III. adorn, equip, dress, esp. of women, h.Hom. 6.11, Hes.Op.72; “κοσμῆσαί τινα πανοπλίῃ” Hdt.4.180; “τριπόδεσσι κ. δόμον” Pi.I.1.19; “τινὰ πλούτῳ ὑπερβάλλοντι” Hdn.3.10.6: c. dupl. acc., “πρίν σε νυμφικὸν ἰστέφανον κοσμήσαμεν” JRS17.51 (Phrygia, iv A. D.):—freq. in Med., κοσμέεσθαι τὰς κεφαλάς to adorn their heads, Hdt.7.209; “κοσμεῖσθαι σῶμα ὅπλοις” E.Ph.1359; ἐν φοινικίσι κοσμησάμενοι having decked themselves, Pl.Com.208:—Pass., “χρυσῷ κοσμηθεῖσα” h.Ven.65; “παῖσα δ᾽ Ἄρῃ κεκόσμηται στέγα” Alc.15.1; “ἵπποι κεκοσμημένοι ὡς κάλλιστα” Hdt.7.40; “κεκ. ἐσθῆτι ποικίλῃ καὶ χρυσοῖσι στεφάνοις” Pl.Ion535 d, cf. S.Ph.1064, Th.6.41, etc.
2. metaph., adorn, embellish, “λόγους” E.Med.576; “λόγους ῥήμασί τε καὶ ὀνόμασι κεκοσμημένους” Pl.Ap.17 c; “τραγικὸν λῆρον” Ar.Ra.1005; κ. ἔργον ἄριστον ib.1027; “τὸ λογικὸν ἔχεις ἐξαίρετον, τοῦτο κόσμει” Arr.Epict.3.1.26; “λόγον εὐρυθμίαις” Isoc.5.27; “αὑτὸν λόγοις” Pl.La.196 b, cf. 197 c; “ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον κ.” Th.1.21; τὸν . . τὴν ἐκείνων ἀρετὴν κοσμήσοντα (in speaking) D.18.287:—Pass., “ἦθος σεμνότητι -μημένον” Phld.Acad.Ind. p.52 M.
3. honour, λουτροῖς σ᾽ ἐκόσμης' S.El.1139; “κ. τάφον” Id.Ant. 396; “νέκυν” E.Tr.1147; “κ. καὶ τιμᾶν” X.Cyr.1.3.3; of persons, adorn, be an honour to, “πατρίδα” Thgn.947; “νᾶσον εὐκλέα” Pi.N.6.46; “Σαλαμῖνα κ. πατρίδα” E.Fr.530.3; [“τὴν πόλιν] αἱ τῶνδε ἀρεταὶ ἐκόσμησαν” Th.2.42.
4. bury, JHS25.172, al. (Isauria).
IV. Pass., to be assigned, ascribed to, “ἐς τὸν Αἰγύπτιον νομὸν αὗται [αἱ πόλεις] ἐκεκοσμέατο” Hdt.3.91; “ἐς Πέρσας κεκοσμέαται” Id.6.41; esp. of philosophic schools, “κατὰ τὴν Ἀκαδημίαν κοσμεῖσθαι” S.E.P.1.231; “οἱ κατὰ διαφόρους αἱρέσεις κοσμούμενοι” Id.M.11.77.
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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