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κτίζω , Emp.23.6, etc.: fut. -ίσω A.Ch.1060: aor.
A.“ἔκτι^σα” Od.11.263, etc.; poet. “ἔκτισσα” Pi.P.1.62, A.Pers.289 (lyr.), “κτίσσα” Il.20.216, “κτίσα” Pi.P.5.89: pf. “ἔκτι^κα” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.1.8, D.S.7.5, 15.13:— Med., poet.aor. “ἐκτίσσατο” Pi.O.10(11).25, Fr.1.4 (ἐκτής- codd.):— Pass., fut. “κτισθήσομαι” Str.Chr.5.38, D.H.1.56: aor. “ἐκτίσθην” Th.1.12, etc.: pf. “ἔκτισμαι” Hdt.4.46, Hp.Art.45, E.Fr.360.9:—people a country, build houses and cities in it, κτίσσε δὲ Δαρδανίην Il.l.c.; κ. χώρην, νῆσον, Hdt.1.149, 3.49.
2. of a city, found, build, Θήβης ἕδος ἔκτισαν Od.l.c., cf. Hdt.1.167, 168, Th.6.4, PCair.Zen.169 (iii B.C.); “ἀποικίαν” A.Pr.815:—Pass., to be founded, Σμύρνην τὴν ἀπὸ Κολοφῶνος κτισθεῖσαν founded by emigrants from Colophon, Hdt.1.16, cf.7.153, 8.62; μήτε ἄστεα μήτε τείχεα ἐκτισμένα no fixed cities or walls, Id.4.46; -“ομένη πόλις” Phld.Rh.2.155 S.
3. κ. ἄλσος plant a grove, Pi.P.5.89; βωμόν set up an altar, Id.O.7.42; ἑορτάν, ἀγῶνα, found, establish it, ib.6.69, 10(11).25 (Med.); τὸν Κύρνον . . κτίσαι, ἥρων ἐόντα establish his worship, Hdt.1.167; “δαῖτάς τινι” A.Ch.484 (Pass.); “τάφον τινί” S.Ant.1101; “αἵρεσιν” Phld.Rh.1.77 S.; “σύνοδον” IG22.1343.12 (i B.C.).
4. produce, create, bring into being, “γόνῳ τινά” A.Supp.172 (lyr.); bring about, τελευτήν ib.140 (lyr.), cf. Ch.441 (lyr.); ὁ τὴν φιλίην ἐκτικώς Lyr.Alex.Adesp. l.c.; of painters, δένδρεα . . καὶ ἀνέρας ἠδὲ γυναῖκας Emp.l.c.; ἵπποισι τὸν χαλινὸν κτίσας having invented it, S.OC715 (lyr.).
5. make so and so, “ἐλεύθερον κ. τινά” A.Ch.1060; “ἔνθεον κτίσας φρένα” Id.Eu.17, cf. 714; “ποτανὰν εἴ σέ τις θεῶν κτίσαι” E. Supp.620 (lyr.), cf. A.Pers.289 (lyr.).
6. perpetrate a deed, S.Tr. 898. (Cf. Skt. kséti 'reside', k[snull ]itís ( = κτίσις) 'habitation'.)
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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