A.“-ήσομαι” E.Hec.360, Ar.Ach.815, Pax1261, Lys.22.22, Dor. ὠνασοῦμαι (v. infr.):—in Att. usu. with the syllabic augment, “ἐωνούμην” Eup.184, And.1.134, “ἀντ-εωνεῖτο” X. Oec.20.26, etc.: but “ὠνέετο” Hdt.3.139, “ὠνέοντο” Id.1.69, “ὠνούμην” Lys. 7.4 codd., “ἀντ-ωνεῖτο” And.1.134, “ἐξ-ωνεῖτο” Aeschin.3.91: aor. 1 “ἐωνησάμην” Plu.Cic.3; “ὠνησάμην” Hp.Ep.17, Plu.Nic.10, Luc.Herm.81; part. “ὠνησάμενος” Plb.4.50.3, D.H.7.20: ὠνήσασθαι not in Attic inscrr. earlier than IG22.1035.8 (i B. C.), ἐπριάμην being used in Att.; ὠνησάμην in the prov. “Χῖος δεσπότην ὠνήσατο” Eup.269: pf. ἐώνημαι in act. sense, Ar.Pl.7, Lys.7.2 (so plpf. “ἐώνητο” D.37.5); also as Pass. (v. infr. 11): aor. in pass. sense (v. infr. 11) ἐωνήθην; fut. in pass. sense “ἀπ-ωνηθήσεται” Theopomp.Com.84: this verb is usu. replaced in later Gr. by ἀγοράζω:—buy, purchase, opp. “πωλέω, πιπράσκω; πῶ τις ὦν ὄνον ὠνασεῖται;” Sophr.125; but in pres. and impf. (which are the tenses most in use), offer to buy, bargain or bid for a thing, “ὄφρ᾽ ἄλλων ὠνῇ κλῆρον” Hes.Op.341; ὠνέεσθαι τῶν φορτίων wished to buy some of their wares, began to bargain for them, Hdt. 1.1; Κροῖσός σφι ὠνεομένοισι ἔδωκε gave it them when they offered to buy, ib.69; τὰς νήσους οὐκ ἐβούλοντο ὠνευμένοισι πωλέειν ib.165, cf. 3.139, 6.121; ὀκτὼ λάβοις ἄν (sc. ὀβολούς); Answ. εἴπερ ὠνεῖ τὸν ἕτερον if you are willing to buy the other fish, Alex.16.10, cf. 78.7; “ὠνεῖσθαι καὶ πωλεῖν πρὸς ἀλλήλους” Pl.Lg.741b; “ὠ. τὰς γυναῖκας παρὰ τῶν γονέων” Hdt.5.6, cf. Pl.Prt.313d, 313e, D.9.48; “ἀπό τινος” Ach.Tat. 5.17: c. dat. pers., buy from . . , Ar.Ach.815, Pax1261; also ὠ. ἐκ Κορίνθου buy goods from Corinth, X.HG7.2.17: “ὠ. ἐξ ἀγορᾶς” Id.An. 3.2.21; metaph., καιρόν, σπονδάς ὠ., Plu.Sert.6, Hdn.6.7.9; “ὠ. μὴ ἀδικεῖσθαι τοὺς ἐμπόρους” D.8.25; c. gen. pretii, buy for so much, Hdt. 5.6, cf. E.Hec.360, X.An.7.6.24; ψυχῆς at the price of life, Heraclit. 85: also c. dat., buy with . . , “τἄχθιστα τοῖσι φιλτάτοις ὠνούμεθα” E.IA 1170: abs., X.Mem.2.10.4, Ages.1.18: esp. in partic., “ὠνουμένους ἕξειν τὰ ἐπιτήδεια” by purchase, Id.An.2.3.27, cf. 5.5.14, etc.; also ὁ ὠνούμενος the buyer, purchaser, “ὁρῶντος τοῦ ὠνουμένου” Id.Eq.3.2, cf. Plu. Cat.Mi.36; ὁ ἐωνημένος the owner by purchase (of a slave), Ar.Pl.7; “ὁ ὠνησάμενος” Plu.2.242d; ὁ ὠνησόμενος the intending purchaser, Din. 3.10: metaph., “χάριτας πονηρὰς ὠ.” E.Hel.902; “ὅσα ἄνθρωποι ἄθλων ὠνοῦνται” X.Hier.9.11; “εὔνοιαν παρά τινος” D.12.20; “ὠ. τὰς αὑτῶν ψυχὰς παρὰ τῶν ἐχθρῶν” Lys.28.9:—in A.Supp.337 Robortello restored ὄνοιτο.
2. bid for, purchase the farming of public taxes or properties, “λ́ ταλάντων” And.1.134, Lys.7.2 (in part. pf. Pass. with trans. sense); “τέλη παρὰ τῆς πόλεως” X.Vect.4.19, etc.; “ὠ. μέταλλα” D.19.293; “τὸν ἐωνημένον τὴν ἰλὺν ἐκκομίσασθαι” IG12.94.20, cf. “ὠνή” 11.
3. buy off, avert by giving hush-money, “ὠ. τὸν κίνδυνον” D.38.20; τὰ ἐγκλήματα ib.8; ταλάντου τὸ πλημμέλημα (i.e. its penalty) “παρά τινος” Luc.Herm.81.
4. ὠ. τινα to buy a person, of one who bribes, D.18.247; “ὠνεῖται καὶ διαφθείρει τινάς” Id.9.45, cf. Plu.Phil.15.
II. sts. used as Pass., dub. in pres. since [ὠνούμενά τε καὶ πιπρασκόμενα] is interpol. in Pl.Phd.69b; occasionally in pf., part. “ἐωνημένος” Id.R. 563b, Is.11.42, D.19.209 (but indic. “ἐώνηνται” Anon. ap. Arist.Rh. 1410a19 is Act. in sense): plpf. “ἐώνητο” Ar.Pax1182 (troch.); also in aor. “ἐωνήθην” X.Mem.2.7.12, “ὠνηθῇ” Id.Vect.4.19; part. “ὠνηθείς” Is.6.19, Pl.Sph.224a, Lg.850a.
III. Act. pf. part. ἐωνηκώς, = ἐωνημένος, Lys.Fr.135S.: aor. ὠνῆσαι: ἀγοράσαι, Zonar.: pres. ὠνεῖν: πωλεῖν, ἀπολαύειν, Hsch.: the sense πωλεῖν is Cretan, ὠνῆν τὰ χρήματα they shall sell the property, Leg.Gort.5.47; αἰ δέ τις . . τὸ νόμισμα μὴ λείοι δέκετθαι ἢ καρπῶ ὠνίοι if any one refuses the currency or sells for produce, SIG525.8 (Crete, iii B. C.).
