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παιδοποι-έω ,
A.beget children, of the man, Luc. DDeor. 22.1; “ἐκ γυναικός” E.Heracl.525: pf. Pass., ἐξ ἧσπερ ὁ βάσκανος οὗτος πεπαιδοποίηται has been begotten, D.25.80.
2. bear children, of the woman, S.El.589, Ar.Ec.615, Sor.1.29.
II. more commonly in Med., fut. “-ήσομαι” Pl.R.449d: aor. “ἐπαιδοποιησάμην” E.Or.1080, Pl.Lg.868d, etc.: pf. “πεπαιδοποίημαι” Aeschin.2.149, D.S.16.6: abs., of the man, E.Or.1080, Pl.R.449d, X.Mem.2.2.4, Men.404.2; “ἐκ γυναικός” And. 4.23; “ἐξ ἑταιρῶν” Aeschin.2.177: also c. acc., “υἱόν” D.S.4.28.
2. f.l. for παῖδα ποιεῖσθαι, adopt, Plu.2.1000d.
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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