A.“ἐπέδεξα” Hdt.2.42:—exhibit as a specimen, Ar.Ach..765: generally, display, exhibit, “βίαν” Pi.N.11.14; “τεκμήρια” A.Supp.53 (lyr.), etc.; “ἑωυτόν τινι” Hdt.2.42; “πᾶσαν τὴν Ἑλλάδα τινί” Id.3.135, cf. 6.61; ἐ. τὸ στράτευμά τινι parade it before . . , X.An.1.2.14, cf.Cyr.5.5.5; of speeches, compositions, etc., ἐπιδειξάτω τῇ βουλῇ he shall exhibit his draft, IG12.76.60; “ἐ. λόγον” Ar.Eq.349; “ῥαψῳδίαν” Pl.Lg.658b, cf. Isoc.2.7 (Pass.); “σοφίαν” Pl.Euthd.274a, X.Smp.3.3.
2.. more freq. in Med., show off or display for oneself or what is one's own, μουσικὰν ὀρθὰν ἐ. give a specimen of his art . . , Pi.Fr.32; ἐμὲ ἐπεδέξατο γυμνήν exhibited me naked, Hdt.1.11; πάντα τὸν στρατόν showed all his army, Id.7.146; ἐ. τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον recall Alexander, Plu.Pyrrh. 8; esp. of one's personal qualities, “ἐπιδείκνυσθαι τὴν αὑτοῦ δύναμιν” And.4.14; σοφίαν, πονηρίαν, Pl.Phdr.258a, Isoc.20.4, cf. X.An.1.9.16; “ἐπιδείξασθαι αὑτὸν ἀβέβηλον” Inscr.Prien.113.66 (i B.C.).
b.. ἐπίδειξαι . . ἅττ᾽ ἐδίδασκες give a specimen of . . , Ar.Nu.935; “τὰ γυμνικά” POxy.42.5 (iv A.D.): abs., show off, make a display of one's powers, “ἐπεδείκνυτο τοῖς λωποδύταις” Ar.Ra.771; ὃν . . ἐθεάσασθε ἐπιδεικνύμενον giving a display (of fighting in armour), Pl.La.179e; of a rhetorician lecturing, Id.Phdr.235a; “πολλὰ καὶ καλά” Id.Grg.447a; of epideictic orators, Arist.Rh.1391b26; of a musician, Ael.VH9.36: c. part., ἐ. “ὑπερθέων” Pl.Lg.648d.
II.. show, point out, “τινὶ τὴν αἰτίαν” Id.Phd. 100b, cf. Aeschin.1.177; “τὴν πονηρίαν” Pl.Prt.346a; ἐ. αὐτήν, ἥτις “ἐστίν” Pl.Com.173.5; ἐ. τὸν ἀλεκτρυόν᾽ ὡς ἐτυράννει show, prove that . . , Ar.Av.483, cf. Lys.1.4; “ὅτι . . ” Pl.R.391e, etc.: c. part., ἐ. πάντα “ἐόντα μεγάλα” Hdt.1.30; ἐ. τινὰ φονέα ὄντα show that one is a murderer, v.l. in Antipho 1.3, cf. Th.3.64 (where perh. ἐπ- `as an afterthought'); ἐ. τινὰ δωροδοκήσαντα prove that one took bribes, Ar.Eq. 832 (anap.); “ἐπιδείξω σε ταῦτα ὁμολογοῦντα” Pl.Euthd.295a, cf.Chrm. 158d; “ψυχὴν ἐ. πρες βυτέραν οὖσαν τοῦ σώματος” Id.Lg.892c; ἐ. αὑτὸν φοβερὸν (sc. “ὄντἀ καὶ μέγα δυνάμενον” And.4.11: c. acc., ἐ. ὅ τι ἂν ἐγκαλῇ “ἐναντίον ἀνδρῶν τριῶν” PEleph.1.7 (iv B.C.), etc.:—Pass., ἐπιδείκνυται αὐθέντης (sc. ὤν) Antipho 3.4.9; ἐπεδείχθησαν οὐδὲν βελτίους “ὄντες” Isoc.4.145, cf. 18.56; “κινδυνεύσεις ἐπιδεῖξαι χρηστὸς εἶναι” X.Mem. 2.3.17 (ἐπιδεῖξαι secl. Cobet).
