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κυ^βερν-άω ,
A.steer, “νῆα κυβερνῆσαι” Od.3.283, cf. Pi.O.12.3 (Pass.), Pl.Plt.298e, etc.: abs., act as helmsman, “αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ” Ar.Eq.544.
2. drive, “κ. ἅρματα” Pl.Thg.123c; “τὸν δρόμον τῶν Ἵππων” Hdn.7.9.6.
3. metaph., guide, govern, Pi.P.5.122, Antipho 1.13, Pl.Euthd.291d, etc.; “τὴν δίκην ὀρθῇ γνώμῃ κυβερνᾶτε” Herod.2.100.
4. act as pilot, i.e. perform certain rites, in the Ship of Isis, IGRom.1.817 (Callipolis).
II. Med., = Act., “κυβερνωμένης τῆς διανοίας” Arist.Pr.964b17; “ὁ κυβερνώμενος μουσικῇ” Marcellin.Vit. Thuc.49:—Pass., “σῇ κυβερνῶμαι χερί” S.Aj.35; “μιᾷ γνώμῃ τῇ Κύρου ἐκυβερνᾶτο” X.Cyr.8.8.1; “ἡ ἰατρικὴ . . διὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τούτου κυβερνᾶται” Pl.Smp.187a, cf. R.590d, Antiph.40.8, etc.; cf. κυμερῆναι.
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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    • Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, 13
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 544
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.283
    • Plato, Republic, 590d
    • Plato, Statesman, 298e
    • Plato, Symposium, 187a
    • Plato, Theages, 123c
    • Plato, Euthydemus, 291d
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 35
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