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πολι_τεύω , fut.
A.“-σω” Th.1.19, X.HG2.3.2:—to be a citizen or freeman, live in a free state, Th.2.46, 3.34,4.114, X.An.3.2.26; “οἴκοι π.” SIG306.21 (Tegea, iv B. C.); “π. παρά τισι” X.HG1.5.19; πεπολιτευκὼρ πὰρ ἁμέ, = μετοικῶν, Schwyzer 425.5 (Elis, iii/ii B.C.); κατὰ νόμους π., opp. monarchy, Plb.4.76.2: more freq. in Med., v. infr.
2. have a certain form of government, administer the state, “κατ᾽ ὀλιγαρχίαν π.” Th.1.19, 3.62; “π. ὥσπερ εἰώθεσαν” Id.4.130; “κατὰ τὰ ἴδια κέρδη π.” Id.2.65; “πρὸς τὸ ἴδιον κέρδος” X.HG1.4.13; “ἐλευθέρως τὰ πρὸς τὸ κοινὸν π.” Th.2.37:—Pass., of the state, to be governed, “τὰς εὖ -ευομένας πόλεις” Isoc.6.35, cf. Pl.R.427a, etc.; “ἄνευ ὁμονοίας οὔτ᾽ ἂν πόλις εὖ -ευθείη” X. Mem.4.4.16; τὰ πεπολιτευμένα αὐτοῖς the measures of their administration, D.1.28; “τὰ κοινῇ πεπ.” Id.18.8, cf. Isoc.16.45, etc.
b. Pass., in Law, to be customary, “τὸ μέχρι νῦν -ευόμενον” Just.Nov.73.8.2, cf. 52 Praef.; ἡ -ευομένη τῆς ἀρτάβης (sc. τιμή) customary price, PGiss. 105.7 (v A.D.).
3. Pass., to be made a citizen, “τοὺς ἐπὶ Τέλωνος πολιτευθέντας” D.S.11.72.
B. most freq. in Med., fut. “πολιτεύσομαι” Ar.Eq.1365, X.Ath. 3.9: aor. “ἐπολιτευσάμην” And.2.10, D.18.207; also Pass. “ἐπολιτεύθην” Th.6.92, Lys.26.5, (ἐν-) Isoc.5.5, etc.: pf. “πεπολίτευμαι” Lys.25.10, D.13.35, etc.:—like the Act., live as a free citizen, chiefly in Prose (once in E. (v. infr.), twice in Ar. (v. infr.)); “π. μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν” And. l. c.; “ἐν δημοκρατίᾳ” X.Cyr.1.1.1, etc.; “ἐν ἐλευθερίᾳ καὶ νόμοις ἐξ ἴσου” D.10.4; opp. μετοικέω, Lys.12.20; “ἐν εἰρήνῃ” X.HG2.4.22; “ἀδίκως πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους π.” Lys.14.42; “εἰ πένης . . λαὸς πολιτεύοιτο πλουσίων ἄτερ” E.Fr.21.
II. take part in the government, Critias 45 D., Th.2.15 (as v.l.), Nausiph.2, Hyp.Eux.27, D.18.18; meddle with politics, Pl.R.561d; opp. ἰδιωτεύειν, Aeschin.1.195; hold public office, show public spirit, IG4.858 (Methana, cf. Glotta14.78), SIG850.14 (Epist. Antonini Pii), etc.
2. c. acc., administer, govern, “ἅπαντα” Ar.Lys.573; “τὰ καθ᾽ αὑτοὺς πολιτεύεσθαι” D.10.74; “ἃ καὶ πεποίηκα καὶ πεπολίτευμαι” Id.18.4; οὐ τὰ βέλτιστα π. ib.207; π. πόλεμον ἐκ πολέμου make perpetual war the principle of government, Aeschin.2.177: abs., conduct the government, Ar.Eq.1365; “κατὰ συμμορίας” D. 2.29; “διὰ τοὺς ἀδίκως -ομένους ἐν τῇ ὀλιγαρχίᾳ δημοκρατία γίγνεται” Lys.25.27; “τοῖς ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ πεπολιτευμένοις” D.2.4; οἱ πολιτευόμενοι the ministers, Id.3.30, 24.157.
III. have a certain form of government, “τοὺς ἄριστα τῶν ἄλλων πολιτευομένους” Isoc.3.24; “ἡμῶν ἐγγὺς π.” Pl.R.568b; κατὰ τὰ πάτρια π. Decr. ap. And.1.83; οἱ τὴν ἄνισον πολιτείαν πολιτευόμενοι, i. e. those living in an oligarchy or a tyranny, Aeschin.1.5.
IV. serve as curialis, Mitteis Chr.97i18 (iv A. D.), PLips.62i2 (iv A. D.), POxy.2106.19 (iv A.D.), etc.
V. in Law, execute according to custom, “διαθήκας” Just.Nou.66.1 Intr.
VI. deal with, in private affairs, “ἀλλήλοις” PHib.1.63.11 (iii B. C.); “πρὸς [τοὺς θεοὺς] ὁσίως καὶ δικαίως” UPZ144.14, cf. 110.78 (ii B.C.), LXX 2 Ma.11.25, Aristeas 31, Act.Ap.23.1; “π. πᾶσαν πολιτείαν κατὰ τὸν ἰουδαϊσμόν” BCH56.293 (Stobi, i/ii A. D.); behave, Ep.Phil.1.27.
b. metaph., arrange, bring about, συνοδίαν, γάμον, Charito 1.1, 2.2.
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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