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παραιτέομαι 1 2

Dep.
I.to beg from another, ask as a favour of him, Lat. exorare, τί τινα Eur., Plat., etc.: to obtain by entreaty, τι Hdt.
2.π. τινα to move by entreaty, obtain leave from, id=Hdt.: to intercede with a person, prevail upon him by supplications, id=Hdt., Eur.
3.c. acc. et inf. to entreat one to do or be so and so, Hdt., Xen., etc.:—also c. gen. pers. et inf. to beg of a person to do a thing, Eur.:—c. inf. only, to obtain leave to do, Hdt.
II.c. acc. rei, Lat. deprecari, to avert by entreaty, deprecate, τὴν ὀργήν, τὰς ζημίας Aeschin.
2.to decline, deprecate, χάριν Pind.
3.c. acc. pers. to ask him to excuse one, decline his invitation, Polyb.; absol., NTest.:—Pass., ἔχε με παρῃτημένον have me excused, id=NTest.
4.π. γυναῖκα to divorce her, Luc.
III.c. acc. pers. to intercede for, beg off, esp. from punishment, Hdt.; π. περί τινος Xen.

1 fut. ήσομαι

2 perf. -ῄτημαι

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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