1.to cheat by lies, beguile, Soph., etc.:—Pass. to be cheated, deceived, Aesch, etc.
2.ψ. τινά τινος to cheat, balk, disappoint one of a thing, Aesch., Soph.; also c. acc. rei, ἐλπίδας ψ. τινά Xen.:—Pass. to be cheated, balked, disappointed of a thing, ψευσθῆναι ἐλπίδος, γάμου Hdt.; δείπνου Ar.
3.Pass., also, to be deceived, mistaken in or about a thing, ἐψευσμένοι γνώμης mistaken in opinion, Hdt.; ἐψευσμένοι τῆς τῶν Ἀθηναίων δυνάμεως deceived in their notions of the Athenian power, Thuc.; ἐψεῦσθαι ἑαυτῶν, Opp. to εἰδέναι ἑαυτούς, Xen.:—also, ψευσθῆναι ἔν τινι Hdt.; περί τινος Xen.: also c. acc., αὐτοὺς ἐψευσμένη Ἑλλάς deceived in its estimate of them, Thuc.
II.c. acc. rei, like ψευδοποιέω, to represent a thing as a lie, to falsify, Soph.:—Pass., ἡ ψευσθεῖσα ὑπόσχεσις the promise broken, Thuc.
B.earlier and more common is the Dep. yeu/domai, Ep. imper. ψεύδεο: f. ψεύσομαι: aor. 1 ἐψευσάμην: pf. ἔψευσμαι:
I.absol. to lie, speak false, play false, Hom., etc.
2.c. acc. rei, to say that which is untrue, ὅτι τοῦτο ψεύδομαι Plat.; ἅπερ αὐτὸν οὐ ψεύδομαι which I do not speak falsely about him, Andoc.
3.to be false, perjured or forsworn, Hes.