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ἀποδίδωμι

I.to give up or back, restore, return, τί τινι Hom., attic: esp. to render what is due, to pay, as debts, penalties, submission, Il.; ἀπ. τινὶ λώβην to give him back his insult, i. e. make atonement for it, id=Il.; ἀπ. ἀμοιβήν τινι Theogn., etc.
2.to return, render, yield, of land, ἐπὶ διηκόσια ἀποδοῦναι (sc. καρπόν) to yield fruit two hundred-fold, Hdt.
3.c. inf. to suffer or allow a person to do a thing, ἀπ. τισὶ αὐτονομεῖσθαι Thuc., etc.:—so in Pass., λόγος ἀπεδόθη αὐτοῖς right of speech was allowed them, Aeschin.
4.to render so and so, ἀπ. τὴν τέρψιν βεβαιοτέραν Isocr.
5.to deliver over, give up, as a slave, Eur.; ἀπ. ἐπιστολήν to deliver a letter, Thuc.
6.λόγον ἀπ. to render or give in an account, Lat. rationes referre, Dem.: to give an account of a thing, Eur.
II.intr. to increase, much like ἐπιδίδωμι III, ἢν χώρη ἐπιδιδῶι ἐς ὕψος καὶ ἀποδιδῶι ἐς αὔξησιν Hdt.;—unless here it means the contrary, if the land increase in height and decrease in productiveness.
III.Mid. to give away of one's own will, to sell, Hdt., attic; ἀπ. τι ἐς Ἑλλάδα to take to Greece and sell it there, Hdt.; ἀπ. τοῦ εὑρίσκοντος to sell for what it will fetch, Aeschin.: at Athens, to farm out the public taxes, Dem.

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