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μαρτυ^ρ-έω , fut. -ήσω Pi.O.6.21:—Pass., fut.
A.“μαρτυρηθήσομαι” Is.8.13, D.19.40; μαρτυρήσομαι in pass. sense, X. (v.infr. 9), D. 57.37: aor. ἐμαρτυρήθην: pf. “μεμαρτύρημαι” Antipho 6.16, used in act. sense, LXX Ge.43.3:—bear witness, give evidence:—Constr.:
1. abs., Simon. 4.7, Pi.I.5(4).48; “μαρτυροῦντι πιστεύειν” Antipho 2.2.7; “ἐξέστω καὶ τοῖς δούλοις μαρτυρεῖν” PLille29.20 (iii B.C.), cf.SIG953.19 (Calymna, ii B.C.), etc.
2. c. dat. pers., bear witness to or in favour of another, confirm what he says, A.Eu.594, Hdt. 8.94, etc.; μαρτυρέει μοι τῇ γνώμῃ, ὅτι . . bears witness to my opinion, that . . , Id.2.18, cf. 4.29; “μαρτυρεῖς σαυτῷ” E.Ion 532; esp. bear favourable witness to, give a good report of a person, IG22.657 (iii B.C.), etc.; “πάντες ἐμαρτύρουν αὐτῷ” Eu. Luc.4.22. b. c. dat. rei, “μ. τῇ διαθήκῃ” POxy.494.33 (ii A.D.), etc.
3. c. acc. rei, testify to a thing, Alc. 102, Pi.O.13.108, S.Ant.515, Pl.Phdr.244d; “μ. τινί τι” Pi.O.6.21, A.Supp.797 (lyr.).
4. “μ. περί τινος” Pl.Ap. 21a; “ὑπέρ τινος” D.29.54.
5. c. inf., testify that a thing is, Heraclit. 34, S.OC1265, etc.; τίς σοι μαρτυρήσει ταῦτ᾽ ἐμοῦ κλύειν; that he heard . . ? Id.Tr.422, cf. E.Hipp.977; “ὁ κληθεὶς μαρτυρείτω ἀληθῆ μαρτυρεῖν” PHal.1.225 (iii B.C.): rarely c. part., “μαρτυρεῖτέ [μοι] . . ῥινηλατούσῃ” A.Ag.1184; “μ. τισὶ παραγινομέναις” D.H. 8.46.
6. μ. τινὶ ὡς . . A.Ag. 494, cf. Pl.Grg.523c; “σώματα . . ὡς ἔστιν, αὐτὴ ἡ αἴσθησις . . μ.” Epicur. Ep.1p.6U.; μ. ὅτι . . X.Vect.4.25.
7. μ. τινὶ τῆς συμμαχίας testify to, acknowledge the value of his alliance, J.AJ13.5.3.
8. c. acc. cogn., “μαρτυρίαν μ.” Is. 11.25, Pl.Erx.399b; μ. ἀκοήν give hearsay evidence, D.57.4; μ. ψεῦδος, ψεύδη, bear false witness, Amips. 13, Diph. 32.16; “τὰ ψευδῆ” Lys. 19.4; “τἀληθῆ” Aeschin. 1.46:—Pass., “μαρτυρίαι μαρτυρηθεῖσαι” D. 47.1; “μεμαρτύρηταί τι περί τινος” Antipho 6.16, cf. Lys. 13.66.
9. impers. in Pass., παρ᾽ ἄλλου ποιητοῦ μαρτυρεῖται testimony is borne by . . , Pl.Prt.344d; οἶδα . . μαρτυρήσεσθαί μοι ὅτι . . X.Mem.4.8.10, cf.Ap.26; μεμαρτύρηται ὑμῖν testimony has been given before you, Lys. 19.55, Is.9.5.
10. Pass., μαρτυρεῖταί μοι σοφία is ascribed to me, D.H. 2.26; μαρτυροῦμαι ἐμπειρίαν I have it ascribed to me, Plu. 2.58a, cf. Luc.Sacr.10; “καλοκἀγαθίαν μαρτυρούμενος” J.AJ 15.10.5; μαρτυροῦμαι ἐπί τινι I bear a character for . . , Ath. 1.25 f; ἄνδρας μαρτυρουμένους men whose character is approved by testimony, Act.Ap.6.3; “τεχνίτας . . μαρτυρηθέντας ὑπό τινος” SIG799.28 (Cyzicus, i A.D.); “δι᾽ ὅλης οἰκουμένης μαρτυρούμενον θεόν” Sammelb.1070 (Abydos).
II. Astrol., to be in aspect with, c. dat., Ptol.Tetr.123; “μ. τὴν μοῖραν” Cat.Cod.Astr.7.226:—Pass., Nech. ap. Vett.Val. 279.23.
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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