I.Orig. sense, to scratch, scrape, graze, αἰχμὴ γράψεν ὀστέον Il.; σήματα γράψας ἐν πίνακι having scratched marks as tokens on a tablet, id=Il.:—then, to represent by lines drawn, to delineate, draw, paint, Hdt., Aesch.; εἰκὼν γεγραμμένη Ar.: also in Mid., ζῷα γράφεσθαι ῀ ζωγραφεῖν, Hdt.
II.to express by written characters, to write, τι id=Hdt.; γο. τινά to write a person's name, Xen.; γ. ἐπιστολήν, etc., id=Xen.; γρ. τι εἰς διφθέρας Hdt.
4.to register, enrol, γρ. τινὰ τῶν ἱππευόντων among the cavalry, Xen.; Κρέοντος προστάτου γεγράψομαι, as a dependent of Creon, Soph.
5.to write down a law to be proposed; hence to propose, move, γνώμην, νόμον Xen.: so, absol., γράφειν (sub. νόμον), Dem.; γρ. πόλεμον, εἰρήνην, etc., id=Dem.; c. inf. to move that . .; ἔγραψα ἀποπλεῖν τοὺς πρέσβεις id=Dem.
B.Mid. to write for oneself or for one's own use, note down, Hdt., Aesch., etc.
2.as attic law-term, γράφεσθαί τινα to indict one, τινός for some public offence, Plat., etc.; c. acc. et inf., γρ. τινὰ ἀδικεῖν id=Plat.: absol., οἱ γραψάμενοι the prosecutors, id=Plat.:—also, γράφεσθαί τι denounce as criminal, Dem.:—Pass. to be indicted, id=Dem., etc.; τὰ γεγραμμένα the articles of the indictment, id=Dem.; τὸ γεγραμμένον the penalty named in the indictment, id=Plat.:—but γέγραμμαι usually takes the sense of the Mid., to indict, id=Dem.
