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τα^μι^-εύω , fut.
A.“-εύσω” Ar.Eq.948, Is.6.61, etc.: pf. “τεταμίευκα” D.S.37.8:—Med., fut. “-εύσομαι” D.H.1.82: aor. “ἐταμιευσάμην” D.S.4.12, Luc.Im.21:—Pass., aor. “ἐταμιεύθην” Ph.2.539: pf. “τεταμίευμαι” Lys.30.3 codd., Plu.2.157a; in med. sense, Hyp.Dem.Fr.4:—to be treasurer, paymaster, controller, IG12.467; “οὐκέτι ἐμοὶ ταμιεύσεις” Ar.Eq.948, cf. 959, D.24.129; “σὺ γὰρ ταμιεύουσ᾽ ἔτυχες” Ar.V.964; “τ. καὶ τὰς μεγίστας ἀρχὰς ἄρχειν” Arist.Pol.1282a31: c. gen., τῆς Παράλου τ. to be paymaster of . . , D. 21.173; “προσόδων” Inscr.Délos 439a18 (ii B.C.); “τ. στρατιωτικῶν” Plu. 2.842f:—Med., “αὐταῖς ταμιεύεσθαι” Ar.Th.419 (cod. R, ταμιεῦσαι καὶ Reiske), cf. Ec.600 (anap.).
2. at Rome, to be quaestor, D.S.37.8, IG14.751 (Naples), Plu.Num.9, App.BC1.77, etc.
II. trans., deal out, dispense, Pl.R.465c:—Med., “τὰ τίμια ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς ταμιεύομαι” X.Smp.4.41; τ. μικρὰς τὰς ψωμίδας, of a bird feeding, Arist.Fr.348:— Pass., “τὴν δύναμιν ἐκ τούτου -ομένην” Pl.R.508b; τοὺς νόμους τεταμιεύμεθα we have the laws dealt out, Lys.30.3 (nisi leg. ἐταμιευόμεθα); [“ὕδωρ] ἐξ ἀγγείου ταμιευόμενον” Arist.Mete.353b21, cf. GA770a21; of a patient's drinks, “ὕστερον -έσθω” Aët.9.30.
2. manage, control, [“ταμίαι] ταμιευόντων ἐμ πόλει ἐν τῷ ὀπισθοδόμῳ τὰ τῶν θεῶν χρήματα” IG12.91.15; “τὰ τῆς πόλεως” Lys.21.14; of keeping house, regulate, manage, Ar.Av.1538, Lys.493:—Med., “τὸ ἀργύριον . . τοὺς ἱεροποιοὺς ἐμ πόλει ταμιεύεσθαι” IG12.6.121.
3. store up, Ζηνὸς ταμιεύεσκε γονάς she was the depository of it, S.Ant.949 (lyr.):—Med., Arist.HA615b23:—Pass., c. dat., to be held in trust for, “Δωριεῖ λαῷ” Pi.O.8.30; to be stored or saved up for, ταμιεύεταί σοι Ῥοδιακοῦ (sc. μέλιτος ἡμικάδιον) ά PCair.Zen.680.14 (iii B.C.).
4. metaph., husband, “ἰσχύν” Hp. Art.47:—Med., οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν ταμιεύεσθαι ἐς ὅσον βουλόμεθα ἄρχειν control the limits to which we mean to extend our sway, Th.6.18; “ἔξεστιν ἡμῖν ταμιεύεσθαι ὁπόσοις ἂν βουλοίμεθα μάχεσθαι” X.An.2.5.18, cf. Eq.Mag.7.11, Cyr.3.3.47, 4.1.18; ταμιεύεσθαι τὴν τύχην, τὸν καιρόν, make the best use of fortune or the time, D.H.1.65,82; ἐς τὴν αὔριον ταμιεύεσθαι τὸ μῖσος lay it by . . , Luc.Prom.8; ταμιεύεσθαί τινα τῶν ῥητῶν εἰς τὸ Περὶ ἔθους γραφησόμενον ἡμῖν save up . . , Gal.19.219; τῶν θεῶν ταμιευσαμένων εἰς τοῦτον τὸν ἱερώτατον καιρὸν τὴν τῆς οἰκουμένης ἀσφάλειαν having preserved . . , OGI669.9 = BGU1563.26 (i A.D.).
b. Med., c. gen., regulate in amount, exercise control over, “τοῦ πνεύματος” Arist.GA788a32, cf. Plu.2.131d.
c. abs., Arist.GA 788a30, PA675b21.
III. = Lat. fisco, proscribo, Gloss.
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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