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μεσι_τ-εύω ,
A.act as arbiter or mediator, J.AJ16.4.3, BGU709.18 (ii A. D.), Babr.39.2, etc.; τισι BGU906.7 (i A. D.), etc.; “μ. ὅρκῳ” Ep.Hebr.6.17; act as go-between, “τῇ Πασιφάῃ πρὸς τὸν ἔρωτα τοῦ ταύρου” Eust.1166.25.
2. trans., mediate, negotiate, “τὴν διάλυσιν μ.” Plb.11.34.3; “τὰς συνθήκας” OGI437.76 (Pergam., i B. C.), D.H.9.59, D.S.19.71; “τὰς διαλλαγάς” Nic.Dam.130.29 J.
3. pledge, mortgage property, CPR1.19 (i A. D.), etc.
4. = μεσιδιόω, χειρόγραφον παρά τινι Möller Pap.Berl. Mus.2.11 (Pass., i A. D.), Suid.
5. add as a third constituent, χάλκανθον Zos.Alch.p.113 B.
II. intr., τὰ χρήματα μ. lies on deposit with a stakeholder, Plb.Fr.183.
2. lie between, “μονάδος καὶ δεκάδος” Theol.Ar.44.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 16.4.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 11.34.3
    • New Testament, Hebrews, 6.17
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.71
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.59
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