previous next
μεταγρα?́φ-ω ,
A.copy, transcribe, “αὖθις μ. πάλιν” E.lA 108, cf. Luc.Ind.4, SIG1020.1 (Halic., i B. C.); τὰ μεταγραφόμενα, of hieroglyphics, D.S.3.4; rewrite, alter or correct what one has written, Th.1.132; esp. of a public document, X.HG6.3.19; μεταγράψαι ἀντὶ "τοῦ Σκιαθίου", ὅπως ἂν ᾖ γεγραμμένον . . "τὸν Παλαισκιάθιον" IG12.118.28; “Μιλτιάδου καὶ Θεμιστοκλέους εἰκόνας εἰς Ῥωμαῖόν τε ἄνδρα καὶ Θρᾷκα μετέγραψαν” Paus.1.18.3; μ. νόμον, etc., tamper with it, Din.1.42, cf. Isoc.17.32 (Pass.); in a trial, alter the record, D.21.85; “τἀναντία ταῖς διαθήκαις μεταγραφῆναι” Is.4.13.
2. translate, “ἐς τὸ Ἑλληνικόν” Luc.Hist.Conscr.21:—Med., τὰς ἐπιστολὰς μεταγραψάμενοι ἐκ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων γραμμάτων having got them translated, Th.4.50.
3. in book-keeping, transfer to another account, PHib.1.111.14 (iii B. C.).
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (10 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 85
    • Isaeus, Nicostratus, 13
    • Isocrates, Trapeziticus, 32
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.18.3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.50
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.19
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.132
    • Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, 4
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 21
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.4
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: