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περιμένω ,
A.wait for, await, c. acc. pers., Hdt.4.89, Ar.Pl.643, etc.; “π. Τισσαφέρνην ἡμέρας πλείους ἢ εἴκοσι” X.An.2.4.1, etc.: c. acc. rei, “π. ἐξ ἀγορᾶς ἰχθύδια” Ar.Fr.387.8 ; τοῦ καιροῦ μὴ περιμένοντός τι as the time could not wait for . . , Plu.Caes.17.
2. require, expect, “σχολάζουσαν φιληκοΐαν” Id.2.172e.
3. endure, put up with, “μακρὰ λέγοντας ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς περιεμείναμεν” Pl.Lg.890e.
4. of events, await, be in store for, τίς με πότμος ἔτι π.; S.Ant.1296(lyr.); μὴ θύσαντας δͅεινὰ π. Pl.R.365a ; ἃ τελευτήσαντα ἑκάτερον π. ib.614a.
II. c. inf., οὐ περιμενοῦσιν ἄλλους σφᾶς διολέσαι will not wait for others to destroy them, ib.375c ; ἕκαστος [τῶν λόγων] π. ἀποτελεσθῆναι awaits its accomplishment, Id.Tht.173c; μηδ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτὸν [τὰ τοιαῦτα] ἐλθεῖν π. D.21.220; “π. τὰ λοιπὰ μαθεῖν” D.H.1.13.
III. abs., wait, stand still, Hdt.7.58, Ar.Ec.517, etc.; “π. αὐτοῦ” Id.Ach.815 ; “ὀλίγον χρόνον” Pl.Ap.38c ; “π. ἕως <ἂν> τὸν ὄχλον διωσώμεθα” X.Cyr.7.5.39 ; “ἕως ἀνοιχθείη τὸ δεσμωτήριον” Pl.Phd.59d, cf. 116a ; μέχρι τούτου, ἕως ἂν . . D.9.10 ; ἄχρι ἂν . . X.An.2.3.2 ; μέχρις ἄν . . Epict.Ench.15.
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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