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πιφαύσκω , redupl. form of φαυ- （φαϝ-) (v. Φάω), only pres. and impf., Act.and Med.; Ep.inf.
A.“πιφαυσκέμεν” Od.11.442:—Ep.and Lyr. Verb (used also by A. in Act., v.infr.), make manifest, tell of, “ἵπποι οὓς νῶϊν πίφαυσκε Δόλων” Il.10.478; “ἕκαστα λέγων ἑτάροισι πίφαυσκον” Od. 12.165; “θέσφατα π., ὅσα μήδεται . . Ζεύς” h.Merc.540; “μειλίγματα βροτοῖς πιφαύσκων εἶπε” A.Ch.279; proclaim, “γᾷ ἐπισκήπτων πιφαύσκω” B. 5.42: metaph., λαμπτὴρ ἡμερήσιον φάος πιφαύσκων showing forth, A. Ag.23; τιάρας φάλαρον π. exhibiting, Id.Pers.662 (lyr.) : abs, ῥοίζησεν δ᾽ ἄρα πιφαύσκων Διομήδεϊ making signal, Il.10.502.
2. declare, utter, “μηδ᾽ οἱ μῦθον . . πιφαυσκέμεν” Od.11.442; ἔπος πάντεσσι π. 22.131; “πείρατα μύθων” Emp.17.15.
3. c. acc. et inf., tell one to do, A.Eu. 620.
II. Med., make manifest, show, “ἀνθρώποισι π. τὰ ἃ κῆλα” Il. 12.280, cf. 21.333; make known, disclose, ἀλλά τοι ἄλλον φῶτα π. Od. 15.518; οἷα Ζεὺς κακὰ ἔργα π. Il.15.97, cf. 16.12, Od.2.32,162, Hes. Th.655; “ἄσχετα ἔργα πιφαύσκετο δημοτ έροισιν” A.R.3.606.
III. later Pass., have told one, learn about, c. acc., Nic.Th.411, 637,725. [In Ep. πι_- metri gr. in the first half of a hexam., Il.10.478,502, 18.500, h.Merc.540; in the latter half πι^- (so always in Med.).]
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 (20):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 620
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 279
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 662
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 5.42
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 655
    • Homer, Iliad, 10.502
    • Homer, Iliad, 21.333
    • Homer, Iliad, 10.478
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.280
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.131
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.32
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.442
    • Homer, Odyssey, 15.518
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 540
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.97
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.12
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.500
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.165
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 23
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.606
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