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ἑτοιμ-άζω , pf.
A.“ἡτοίμακα” Plb.3.72.6: pf. Pass. ἡτοίμασμαι both in med. and pass. sense v. infr.): (ἑτοῖμος):—get ready, prepare, ἐμοὶ γέρας αὐτίχ᾽ ἑτοιμάσατ' Il.1.118; [νέας] Hdt.6.95; “στρατιώτας” Act.Ap.23.23; “ὁδόν” LXX Is.40.3,al.; “ἔγκλημα μικρὸν αἰτίαν τε” S.Tr.361; “δῶμα” E.Alc.364; “βουλήν” Id.Heracl.472; δάκρυα δ᾽ ἑτοιμάζουσι to those furnishing them, Id.Supp. 454; “ἀργύριον ῥητόν” Th.2.7, etc.; ἑαυτὸν ἵνα . . Apoc.8.6.
II. Med., cause to be prepared, “ὄφρ᾽ ἱρὸν ἑτοιμασσαίατ᾽ Ἀθήνῃ” Il.10.571; “ἑτοιμάσσαντο δὲ ταύρους” Od.13.184, cf. Hdt. 8.24; “ἑτοιμασάμενος ἃ δεῖ” Inscr.Prien.55.34 (ii B.C.).
2. with pf. Pass. ἡτοίμασμαι, prepare for oneself, τἄλλα ἡτοιμάζετο made his other arrangements, Th.4.77; “ὅπως ἑτοιμάσαιντο τιμωρίαν” Id.1.58; “πλείονα ἡτοιμασμένος” X.Cyr.3.3.5; “τροφὴν ἡτοιμασμένοι” D.23.209; “τὰ πρὸς τὸν βίον” Epicur.Sent.Vat. 30, cf. Metrod.Fr.53.
3. prepare oneself, make oneself ready, c. inf., X.Ap.8; “πρὸς τὴν χειμασίαν” Plb. 3.105.11.
III. Pass., to be prepared, ἔλεγε ἡτοιμάσθαι that preparations had been made, Th.6.64, cf. 7.62, etc.; ἑ. τι to be prepared with . . , Plb.8.30.7.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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