A.have full command of : hold fast, “βέλος χειρί” Hp.VC 11 : c.gen., “εὐγενείας” Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.44.
2. lord it over, “Ἑλλάδος Σφίγγα περικρατοῦσαν” Carm.Pop.46.24, cf. Iamb. ap. Simp.in Cat. 375.17; preuail over, “ἐχθρῶν” Ph.2.383; controi, “π. τῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμός” LXX 4 Ma.1.9; “ἄνθρωποι π. πάντων” J.AJ11.3.4; προσώπου, of an actor, Simp.in Epict.p.125 D.; master with the mind, “θεωρημάτων” Ph.1.105, cf. PGnom.Praef. (ii A. D.), Theol.Ar.59 : abs., v.l. in Plu.2.526f :— Pass., to be mastered, cured, of a disease, Archig. ap. Aët.9.40.