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κυ_δ-αίνω , fut.
A.“κυδα^νῶ” Lyc.721, etc.: Ep. aor. “κύδηνα” Il.23.793; Dor. “ἐκύδα_να” Pi.P.1.31: (κῦδος):—give or do honour to, τινα Il.10.69, 13.348, 350; “ἠμὲν κυδῆναι θνητὸν βροτὸν ἠδὲ κακῶσαι” Od.16.212; “Ζεύς, ὅς μιν . . τίμα καὶ κύδαινε” Il.15.612; [Αἰνείαν] ἀκέοντό τε κύδαινόν τε they healed and glorified him, by restoring strength and beauty, 5.448; “πάλᾳ κυδαίνων Τεγέαν” Pi.O.10(11).66, cf.P.1.31; “πατρίδα κ.” Simon. 151; “σφ᾽ ἀρετὴ κυδαίνουσ᾽ ἀνάγει . . ἐξ Ἀΐδεω” Id.99.4; “πρὸ τοῦ κήπου κ. τὸν περίπατον” Plu.2.635a.
II. delight or gladden by marks of honour, “κύδαινε δὲ θυμὸν ἄνακτος” Od.14.438, cf. Il.23.793.
III. seldom in bad sense, flatter, fawn upon, Hes.Op.38, cj. in Max.Tyr. 20.1.
IV. Med., pride oneself, “ἐπὶ πατράσι” Onos.1.24.—Poet. and late Prose.
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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