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*πρία^μαι (assumed as Pres.), 1 aor. ἐπρι^άμην freq. in Att., supplying aor. of ὠνέομαι,
A.buy; 2sg. “ἐπρίω” Ar.V.1440; 3sg. “ἐπρίατο” IG12.94.22, Ep. “πρίατο” Od.1.430; imper. “πρίασο” Ar.Ach.870; πρίω ib.34, 35, Eup.1, etc.; Dor. “πρία_” Epich.137; subj. “πρίωμαι” Ar.Ach.812, 2sg. “πρίῃ” Id.Nu.614, 3sg. “πρίηται” D.18.247, Thphr.Fr.97.3; opt. “πριαίμην” S.Ant.1171, Leg.Gort.6.13, etc.; inf. “πρίασθαι” IG12.10.5, E.Med.233, Ar.V.253, etc. (πριάσασθαι v.l. in LXXGe.42.10); part. “πριάμενος” Hdt.1.196, IG12.94.22, Leg.Gort.6.20, etc.:—buy, Od.l.c., etc.; ὁ πριάμενος, opp. ὁ ἀποδόμενος, Leg.Gort.6.20: c. dat. pretii, “τίς σε πρίατο κτεάτεσσιν ἑοῖσιν” Od.14.115, cf. 452; “τὸ κάλλος ἀνονήτοις γάμοις” E.Hel.885, cf. Med.233, etc.: c. gen., π. θανάτοιο purchase by his death, Pi.P.6.39; “π. καπίθην ἀλεύρων τεττάρων σίγλων” X.An.1.5.6; “π. πολλοῦ” Id.Cyr.3.2.19 (also “πρὸ πάντων χρημάτων” Id.Mem.2.5.3.); πρίασθαι οὐδενὸς λόγου to buy at no price, S.Aj.477: with dat. pers.added, “πόσου πρίωμαί σοι τὰ χοιρίδια;” Ar.Ach.812, cf. Ra. 1229, S.Ant.1171; “π. τι παρὰ τῶν ἐκτημένων” Hdt.9.94; “π. τὴν χώραν παρά τινων τριάκοντα ταλάντων” X.HG3.2.30: c. inf., “π. παρά τινων μὴ δοῦναι δίκην” And.3.38; “τῆς ψυχῆς π. ὥστε μὴ . .” X.Cyr.3.1.36, cf. 8.4.23: π. alone, π. τίμιον [τοὔλαιον] buy it dear, Ar.V.253; “τὴν εἰρήνην π.” Aeschin. 2.178; “ὀπώραν” D.53.21; π. τὸ ποιῆσαι buy the power of doing, X. Cyr.5.3.10.
2. of slaves, “π. Σκύθας τοξότας” And.3.5, cf. Posidipp. 23; “ἐπιστάτην ταλάντου” X.Mem.2.5.2; “τέκτονα πέντε μνῶν” Pl.Amat. 135c.
3. π. τοὺς δικαστάς buy, i.e. bribe them, D.7.7.
4. rent, farm a tax, etc., “τέλος” X.Vect.4.20; “μέταλλον” Din. ap. D.H.Din.13; “ὠνὴν ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου” And.1.92, etc.: abs., οἱ πριάμενοι [τὸ θέατρον] the contractors for the management of the theatre, IG22.1176.15,31. (Cf. Skt. κρīνā´τι, OIr. crenid, Welsh prynu 'buy', Old Lith. krienas 'bride-price'.)
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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