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μετάγω [α^], fut. -άξω D.S.20.3: pf.
A.“μεταγείοχα” PRyl.67.5 (ii B. C.): —convey from one place to another, transfer, “τινὰ εἰς Βαβυλῶνα” LXX 1 Es.1.45, cf. Aristeas 12 (Pass.); “τὴν ἐκκλησίαν εἰς Σικυῶνα” Plb.5.1.9; “τὸν πόλεμον εἰς τὴν Λιβύην” D.S. l.c.; “ναόν” SIG587.6 (Peparethus, ii B. C.); “τὰ δικαστήρια ἀπὸ τῆς βουλῆς ἐπὶ τοὺς ἱππέας” D.C.Fr.83.7; escort, τινα SIG588.51 (Milet., ii B. C.): Medic., divert, “τὰ ῥεύματα” Gal.17(1).965: metaph., “τοὺς πολίτας εἰς σωφρονεστέραν βίου τάξιν μ.” Plu.2.225f, cf. SIG704E 12 (Delph., ii B. C.), Epict.Ench.33.3; “ψυχὴν ἐπ᾽ εὐφροσύνην” AP10.77 (Pall.); seduce, “τινὰς ἐς τὸ ἁβροδίαιτον” Hdn.3.8.5.
2. translate, “εἰς ἑτέραν γλῶσσαν” LXX Si.Prol. (Pass.).
3. derive a metaphor, “ἀπό τινος” Phld.Rh.1.179 S.
4. Pass., to be borrowed, “μετῆκται ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν γεωμετρίᾳ τὸ ὄνομα” Iamb. in Nic.p.58 P.
II. intr., go by a different route, change one's course, X.Cyr.7.4.8.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.4.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.1.9
    • Epictetus, Enchiridion, 33.3
    • Old Testament, 1 Esdras, 1.45
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.3
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