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ὑπουργ-έω , Ion. ὑποργέω ,
A.like ὑπηρετέω, render service or help to one, assist, c. dat., Hdt.8.110, Democr.255, PCair.Zen.176.297 (iii B. C.), etc.; “ὑ. τισὶ ἔργῳ” Th.6.88:—Pass., “μὴ κάμνων ὑπὸ καμνόντων ὑ.” receive assistance, Epict.Gnom.Fr.24.
2. c. acc. rei, χρηστὰ ὑ. (sc. τοῖς Ἀθηναίοισι) do them good service, Hdt.8.143, cf. 7.38, S.Aj. 681, El.461, Ph.143 (lyr.), Antipho 4.3.4, Th.7.62; “τὰ δίκαια” Gorg. Fr.21; “ὑ. χάριν τινί” A.Pr.635, E.Alc.842; of a woman, “τισὶ ὑ. πρὸς χάριν” Anaxil.21.2; furnish, “βεβαίαν κατάληψιν” Aristid.Quint.1.3:— Pass., τὰ ὑποργημένα services done or rendered, Hdt.9.109.
3. abs., S.Ph.53; τὰ τῆς κοιλίης ὑ. do their duty, Hp.Morb.3.15.
4. c. dat. rei, assist or promote, τῇ καθάρσει ibid.
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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