Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“κτήσομαι” Archil.6.4, Thgn.200, A.Eu.289, Th.6.30, Pl.R.417a, etc. (in pass. sense, Plot.2.9.15, s.v.l.); “κεκτήσομαι” A.Th.1022, E.Ba.514, Pl.Grg. 467a (ἐκτήσομαι in La.192e, and prob. in Emp.110.4): aor. ἐκτησάμην, Ep.κτ-, Od.14.4, Pi.Pae.2.59, etc.: pf. “κέκτημαι” Hes.Op.437, etc., “ἔκτημαι” Il.9.402, A.Pr.795, Hdt.2.44, and sts. in Pl. (κεκτῄμεθα and ἐκτῆσθαι in following lines, R.505b, “ἐκτῆσθαι τοῦ κεκτῆσθαι ἕνεκα” Tht. 198d); Ion. 3pl. “ἐκτέαται” Hdt.4.23; subj. “κέκτωμαι” Isoc.3.49, Pl. Lg.936b; opt. κεκτῄμην, ῇτο, ib.731c, 742e, “κεκτῴμην” E.Heracl.282 codd.: plpf. “ἐκεκτήμην” And.1.74, 4.41, Lys.2.17, etc.; poet. “κεκτήμην” E.IA404; Ion. 3pl. “ἔκτηντο” Hdt.2.108; Att. 1pl. ἐκτήμεθα f.l. in And.3.37: for fut. and aor. Pass., v. infr.111.

I. pres., impf., fut., and aor.,

1. procure for oneself, get, acquire, “κτήμασι τέρπεσθαι τὰ γέρων ἐκτήσατο Πηλεύς” Il.9.400, etc.; [οἰκῆας] Od.l.c.; “γῆν” A.Eu. l.c., cf. Pers.770; of horses, win (as a prize), Pi.N.9.52; κτήσασθαι βίον ἀπό τινος to get one's living from a thing, Hdt.8.106; win favour, and the like , χάριν ἀπό τινος, ἔκ τινος, S.Tr.471, Ph.1370; “παρά τινος” X. Smp.4.43; “τὴν εὔνοιαν τὴν παρὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων” Isoc.5.68; κ. φίλους, ἑταίρους, S.Aj.1360, E.Or.804 (troch.); “κτήσασθαι παῖδας ἐξ ὁμοσπόρου” Id.IT696, cf. S.OT1499, Hdt.8.105; “παῖδας ἐς δόμους κτήσασθαι” E.Fr.491, cf. Supp.225; “πολλάκις δοκεῖ τὸ φυλάξαι τἀγαθὰ τοῦ κτήσασθαι χαλεπώτερον εἶναι” D.1.23.

b. of consequences, bring upon oneself, “αὑτῷ θάνατον” S.Aj.968; incur, θεᾶς ὀργήν ib.777; “κακά” Id.El.1004; “ξυμφοράς” E.Or.543; “ἔχθραν πρός τινα” Th.1.42; δυσσέβειαν κ. get a name for impiety, S.Ant.924; “κακὸν λόγον πρὸς ἀστῶν” E.Heracl.166, cf. IT676; “ἐκ τῶν πόνων τὰς ἀρετὰς κ.” Th.1.123.

c. κ. τινὰς πολεμίους make them so, X.An.5.5.17; “οὔ ποτ᾽ εὔνουν τὴν ἐμὴν κτήσῃ φρένα” S.Ph. 1281.

2. procure or get for another, “ἐμοὶ δ᾽ ἐκτήσατο κεῖνος” Od.20. 265; “μέγαν τέκνοις πλοῦτον ἐκτήσω” A.Pers.755 (troch.), cf. X. Oec.15.1.

II. in pf. and plpf. with fut. κεκτήσομαι, to have acquired, i.e. possess, hold (opp. χρῆσθαι, Pl.Euthd.28od), “οὐδ᾽ ὅσα φασὶν Ἴλιον ἐκτῆσθαι” Il.9.402, cf. X. Cyr.8.3.46, Pl.Phdr.260b; “ὅπλα μὴ ἐκτῆσθαι” Hdt.1.155, cf. S.Ph.778; “στρατὸν πλεῖστον ἐκτημένοι” Hdt.7.161; “κοινὸν ὄμμ᾽ ἐκτημέναι” A.Pr.795; φωνὴν βάρβαρον κεκτ. Id.Ag.1051; “κεκτ. τινὰ σύμμαχον” E.Ba.1343; “κ. κάλλος” X.Smp.1.8; “ἀρετήν” Pl.Prt.340e; “τέχνην” Lys.24.6; ποίησιν to be master of it, Pl.Lg.829c: dub. in aor., ἀγορὰς κτησάμενοι having market-places, Hdt.1.153 (leg. στησάμενοι): with impers. subject, πραγμάτων ἀγῶνας κεκτημένων involving effort, Epicur.Sent.21:—the diff.between pres.and pf. appears from X.Mem.1.6.3, ἃ [χρήματα] καὶ κτωμένους εὐφραίνει καὶ κεκτημένους . . ποιεῖ ζῆν: later, pres. in pf. sense, Ev.Luc.18.12.

b. of evils, “ἄγος κεκτήσεται θεῶν” A.Th.1022; “κακά” E.Hel.272; “φθόνον” Pl.Lg.870c.

c. have in store, opp. ἔχω, have in hand, ready for use, “ἔχων τε καὶ κεκτημένος . . κακά” S.Ant.1278; “ἔχειν τε καὶ κεκτῆσθαι τὸ ψεῦδος” Pl.R. 382b. cf. Tht.197b, 198d, Cra.393b; κ. ἱμάτιον own, opp. ἔχειν (wear), Id.Tht.197b.

d. abs., to be a property-owner, “τῶν ἐκτημένων ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ” SIG633.73 (Milet., ii B.C.), cf. 888.15 (iii A.D.).

2. ὁ κεκτημένος owner, master (esp. of slaves), as Subst., Ar.Pl.4, etc.; “οἱ κ.” A.Supp.337; of a husband, E.IA715; ἡ κεκτημένη my mistress, S. Fr.762, Ar.Ec.1126, Men.Pk.61, al., cf. Phryn.Com.48.

III. aor. 1 Pass. ἐκτήθην in pass. sense, to be gotten, “ἃ ἐκτήθη” Th.1.123, 2.36; to be obtained as property, “δουλόσυνος πρὸς οἶκον κτηθεῖσα” E.Hec.449 (lyr.), cf. D.H.10.27, etc.: fut. “κτηθήσομαι” LXX Je.39 (32).43. (Act. κτάω very late, PLond.1.77 (vi A.D.).)