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ψηφίζω

1.to count or reckon, properly with pebbles ( ψῆφοι, cf. Lat calculare from calculus), Anth.
2.Act can mean to vote, like ψηφίζομαι, but only in Soph. (δίκην ἐψήφισαν), and in late writers.
II.more freq. Dep. ψηφίζομαι.
1.properly, to give one's vote with a pebble, which was thrown into the voting urn, absol., ψηφίζεσθαι ἐς ὑδρίαν Xen.: generally, to vote, Hdt.; τινι for any one, Dem.
2.c. acc. rei, to vote for, carry by vote, πόλεμον Thuc.; ψ. παρασκευήν id=Thuc., etc.
3.c. inf. to vote, give one's vote to do a thing, Hdt., Aesch., etc.:—c. acc. et inf. to vote that, ψ. τὰς σπονδὰς λελύσθαι Thuc.
4.ψ. περί, ὑπέρ τινος Plat., Aeschin.
III.Act. in same sense as Mid., only in Soph. Aj. (δίκην ἐψήφισαν), and in late writers:—but the aor1 pass. ψηφισθῆναι is used in pass. sense, to be voted, Thuc., Xen., etc.; so perf. part. ἐψηφισμένοι θανεῖν condemned by vote to die, Eur.

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