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ὁπλ-ίζω , aor. ὥπλισα, Ep. ὥπλισσα (v. infr.): pf. ὥπλικα (παρ-) D.S.4.10 : plpf.
A.“ὡπλίκει” D.C.78.6:—Med., fut. -ίσομαι (ἐφ-) AP9.39 (Music.), -ιοῦμαι Sch.Il.13.20 : aor. ὡπλισάμην, Ep. ὁπλίσσατο (v.l. ὡπλ-) Od.2.20:—Pass., aor. “ὡπλίσθην” Hdt.2.152, etc., Ep.3pl. “ὅπλισθεν” Od.23.143: pf.“ὥπλισμαι” E.Ba.733, etc.—Hom. usu.uses the augm., but codd. have “ὁπλισάμεσθα” Od.4.429, “ὅπλισθεν” 23.143 (v.l. ὥ-): (ὅπλον, cf. ὁπλέω, ὅπλομαι):—make or get ready, in Hom. of meats and drink, “ἐπεί ῥ᾽ ὥπλισσε κυκειῶ” Il.11.641 ; “ὅπλισσόν τ᾽ ἤϊα” Od.2.289 ; “δαῖθ᾽ ὁ.” E.Ion852:—Med, δόρπον or δεῖπνον ὁπλίζεσθαι make oneself a meal ready, Od.2.20,16.453, Il.11.86 ; “ὡπλίσσατο λύχνον” Emp.84.1 ; ὁ. θυσίαν θεοῖς cause it to be prepared, E.Ion1124.
2. of chariothorses, get ready, harness, equip, “αὐτὰρ ὅ γ᾽ υἷας ἄμαξαν . . ὁπλίσαι ἠνώγει” Il.24.190 (so in Med., prepare or get ready for oneself, “ἐΰτριχας ὡπλίσαθ᾽ ἵππους” 23.301) ; “ὥπλιζον ἵππους προμετωτιδίοις” X.Cyr.6.4.1 :— Pass., of ships, “νῆες . . ὁπλίζονται” Od.17.288 ; of any implements, “λαμπὰς διὰ χερῶν ὡπλισμένη” ready for use, A.Th.433 ; “θώρακα . . περιβόλοις ὡπλισμένον” furnished with, E.Ion993.
3. of persons, esp. of soldiers, equip, arm, Hdt.1.127, E.Ion980, etc.; also, train, exercise soldiers, Hdt.6.12 : in Att. Prose, arm or equip as “ὁπλῖται, ὁπλίζειν τὸν δῆμον πρότερον ψιλὸν ὄντα” Th.3.27, cf. 6.100 (Pass.), Lys.31.15, etc.:—Med. and Pass., make oneself ready, prepare or equip oneself, get ready, “ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔξω ἰὼν ὡπλίζετο” Od.14.526 ; ὅπλισθεν (for ὡπλίσθησαν) δὲ γυναῖκες the women got ready [for dancing], 23.143 ; “Τρῶες . . ἀνὰ πτόλιν ὡπλίζοντο” were arming, Il.8.55 ; “ἀλλ᾽ ὁπλιζώμεθα θᾶσσον” Od.24.495 ; “χαλκῷ ὁπλισθέντας” Hdt.2.152 ; “κατάπερ Κόλχοι ὡπλισμένοι” Id.7.79 ; “χρωμένους τῷ πλήθει ὡπλισμένῳ” Pl.R.551e ; “ὁπλίζου, καρδία” E.Med.1242 : c. inf., “τοὶ δ᾽ ὡπλίζοντο . . νέκυάς τ᾽ ἀγέμεν, ἕτεροι δὲ μεθ᾽ ὕλην” Il.7.417 ; “βουσφαγεῖν ὡπλίζετο” E.El.627:—in Med., also c. acc., ὁπλίζεσθαι χέρα arm one's hand, Id.Or.926 (in Act., Id.Alc.35 (anap.)); ὁπλίζεσθαι θράσος arm oneself with boldness, S.El. 996, cf. AP5.92, 1 Ep.Pet.4.1: freq. c. dat. instrum., “ὁπλιζώμεσθα φασγάνῳ χέρας” E.Or.1223, cf. Ph.267 ; “θύρσοις διὰ χερῶν ὡπλισμέναι” Id.Ba.733.
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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