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σεβ-ίζω , mostly used in pres.: fut.
A.“σεβιῶ” D.C.52.40: aor. “ἐσέβισα” S.Ant.943 (anap.), Ar.Th.106(lyr.):—Med.and Pass.,v. infr.:—worship, honour, τινα Pi.P.5.81, A.Eu.12; “σὸν κράτος” Id.Ag. 258, cf. 785 (anap.); ς. τινὰ τιμαῖς, λιταῖς, S.OC1007, 1557 (lyr.); “εὐχαῖσι θεούς” E.El.196 (lyr.); ς. τινὰ πλούτου honour or admire one for it, ib.994 (anap.); καινὰ λέχη ς. devote oneself to a new wife, Id.Med.156 (lyr.); “εὐσεβίαν σεβίσασα” S.Ant.943 (anap.); ς. βάρη paying my tribute (prob. a dirge) to . . , A.Pers.945 (lyr., dub. l.):— Pass., “σεβιζόμενοι ἐν θυσίαις” Pi.I.5(4).29; “ς. ἀνδράσιν ἠδὲ γυναιξίν” Emp.112.8:—also Med. in sense of Act., “ς. ἱκέτας” A.Supp.815 (lyr.); δαίμονας ib.922; οὐδὲν σεβίζει γενεθλίους ἀράς standest not in awe of them, Id.Ch.912; “ἁγὼ σεβισθείς” S.OC636.
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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