Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.to be lord or master of, “πάντων” X.Mem.2.6.22, cf. Arist.EN1160b35; “τῆς Ἀσίας” X.Mem.3.5.11; “μυρίων γῆς πήχεων” Men.1099, cf. PEleph. 14.14 (iii B.C.), etc.; “τῶν γενημάτων” PTeb.105.47 (ii B.C.); “τῆς θαλάττης” Agatharch.5; “ὧν ἁ πόλις . . κυριεύει” IG5(2).510.4 (Arc., ii B.C.); “κυριεύειν τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀνδρός” D.S.1.27; “σανίδων” Phld.Mort.24; “νεκρῶν καὶ ζώντων” Ep.Rom.14.9; “κρατεῖν καὶ κ.” PStrassb.14.22 (iii A.D.); gain possession of, seize, “ζωγρίᾳ τινῶν” Plb.1.7.11, al., cf. Ph.Bel.80.41: later c. acc., “τὰ σώματα καὶ τὴν βοῦν κ.” PGrenf.1.21.13 (ii B.C.); “τοῦ κυριεύοντος τὴν ὅλην οἰκουμένην” PMag.Lond.121.838: abs., to be dominant, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.244:—Pass., to be dominated, possessed, “ὑπό τινος” Arist.Mir.838a10.

b. Astrol., of planets, “κ. τοῦ σχήματος” Ptol.Tetr.169, cf. Vett.Val.63.23:—Pass., “οἱ -όμενοι τόποι” Ptol. Tetr.112.

2. to have legal power to do, c. inf., Lex ap.Aeschin. 1.35.

II. ὁ κυριεύω<*> (sc. λόγος, wh. is expressed in Arr.Epict.2.19.1), a logical puzzle, Plu.2.615a, Luc.Vit.Auct.22, etc., cf. Stoic. 2.93.