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θησαυρ-ίζω ,
A.store, treasure up, “ἐν ἀσφαλείῃ τὰ χρήματα θ.” Hdt.2.121.ά; θ. τὸν νεκρὸν ἐν οἰκήματι to lay it by, ib.86; φάρμακα, σῖτα θ. παρ᾽ αὑτῷ, X.Cyr.8.2.24, etc.; of fruits, lay up in store, preserve, pickle, [“καυλοὺς] ἐν ἅλμῃ” Thphr.HP6.4.10; τὸ ἔλαιον θ. [τὰς ὀσμάς] preserves its smell, Id.CP6.19.3:—Pass., “ῥὰξ εὖ τεθησαυρισμένη” S.Fr. 398.2; [“ἡ ἐβένη] τὴν χρόαν οὐ -ομένη λαμβάνει τὴν εὔχρουν ἀλλ᾽ εὐθὺς τῇ φύσει” Thphr.HP4.4.6, cf. 3.12.5; “ἡ τεθησαυρισμένη τῶν ἀρωμάτων ἀπόλαυσις” Agatharch.97; “τὸ θησαυρισθέν” IG14.423 ii 37 (Tauromenium).
b. abs., hoard, lay up treasure, Phld.Oec.p.71J., Ep.Jac. 5.3; “ἑαυτῷ” Ev.Luc.12.21.
2. metaph., “θ. σεαυτῷ ὀργήν” Ep.Rom. 2.5; “θ. θησαυροὺς ἐν οὐρανῷ” Ev.Matt.6.20; θ. εὐτυχίαν lay up a store of . . , App.Sam.4.3:—Med., store up for oneself, “ἑαυτῷ ὑπομνήματα” Pl.Phdr.276d, cf. Isoc.15.229:—Pass., “τεθησαυρισμένος κατά τινος φθόνος” D.S.20.36; “χάριτας -ισθησομένας” Id.1.90; to be reserved, “πυρί” 2 Ep.Pet.3.7.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.121
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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.90
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