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στέργω , A.Eu.911, Ar.Eq.769, etc.: impf.
A.“ἔστεργον” Hdt.9.117, E.Ion 817: fut. “στέρξω” S.Ph.458, D.18.112, etc.: aor. “ἔστερξα” Semon.7.45, S.OT1023, etc.: pf. “ἔστοργα” Hdt.7.104:—Pass., aor. “ἐστέρχθην” Lyc.1190, Plu.Ant.31, etc.: pf. “ἔστεργμαι” Emp.22.5, AP 6.120 (Leon.):—love, feel affection, freq. of the mutual love of parents and children, S.OT1023, OC1529, Demetr.Lac.Herc.1012.46, etc.; παῖς στέργει τε καὶ στέργεται ὑπὸ τῶν γεννησά<*>των Pl.Lg.754b; “ς. τὰ νεογνὰ βρέφη” X.Oec.7.24; πατέρα, τοὺς γονέας, E.El.1102, D. 25.65, cf. Arist.EN1161b18; of the love of the ruled people for a ruler, Hdt.9.113, cf. S.Ant.292; of the love of a tutelary god for the people, A.Eu.911; so “ἐμὲ γὰρ ἔστερξαν . . Μοῦσαι” Ar.Ra.229; of a wheedling demagogue, “ὦ Δῆμ᾽, εἰ μή σε . . στέργω” Id.Eq.769; of a city and her colonies, Th.1.38; of the love of dogs for their master, X.Cyn.7.12.
2. less freq. of the love of husband and wife, Hdt.2.181, 7.69, S.Tr.577, Aj.212 (anap.); “ἄλλην τιν᾽ εὐνήν” E.Andr.907, cf. 468 (lyr.); “πόσιν στέργοντ᾽ ἔχειν” Id.Fr.1062; of brothers and sisters, Id.IA502; of friends, LXX Si.27.17, etc.
3. seldom of sexual love, X.Smp.8.14,21, Sosicr.4; of a horse and mare, Hdt.3.85; πρόβατα ἄρνα εἰ μὴ ς. Crateuas ap.Sch.Nic.Th. 681:—Med., c. gen., “δυοῖν γυναικοῖν εἷς ἀνὴρ οὐ στέργεται” Com.Adesp.284.
II. generally, to be fond of, show affection for, “μή μ᾽ ἔπεσιν μὲν στέργε” Thgn.87; “λόγοις ἐγὼ φιλοῦσαν οὐ στέργω φίλην” S. Ant.543; στέργει γὰρ οὐδεὶς ἄγγελον κακῶν ἐπῶν ib.277, cf. Ar.V. 1054, etc.: also of things, οὐκ οἰκός ἐστι . . εὐνοίην . . διωθέεσθαι, ἀλλὰ ς. accept it gladly, Hdt.7.104; “μακράν γε . . ῥῆσιν οὐ ς. πόλις” A.Supp. 273, cf. Th.717; “ὕβριν γὰρ οὐ ς. οὐδὲ δαίμονες” S.Tr.280; “ἔστερξε τὴν ἁπλῶς δίκην” Id.Fr.770; “τὴν ἀλήθειαν” Pl.R.485c, etc.: reversely, “στέργοι με σωφροσύνα” E.Med.635 (lyr.).
III. to be content or satisfied, acquiesce (cf. “ἀγαπάω” 111), S.OT11 (unless, having desired, cf. infr. iv), OC7; “στεργέτω” Pl.Lg.849e; “στέρξω καὶ σιωπήσομαι” D. 18.112; στέρξον oblige me, do me the favour, S.OC518 (lyr.).
2. c. acc., ἔστεργον τὰ παρεόντα were content with, acquiesced in them, Hdt.9.117; τὴν Διὸς τυραννίδα bear with it, A.Pr.11; “ἐθέλω τάδε μὲν ς. δύστλητά περ ὄντα” Id.Ag.1570 (anap.), cf. Eu.673; “ἀνάγκῃ προὔμαθον ς. κακά” S.Ph.538, cf. E.Ph.1685, PGrenf.1.53.21 (iv A.D.); “ς. τὴν γυναῖκα” S.Tr.486, cf. E.Andr.180; “τὴν τύχην” D.55.22.
3. c. dat., “ς. τοῖσι σοῖς” E.Supp.257; “τοῖς παροῦσιν” Isoc.Ep.2.23; “τῇ ἐμῇ τύχῃ” Pl.Hp.Ma.295b; “ταῖς ὑμετέραις γνώσεσι” D.26.5; “στέρξαι καὶ ἐμμεῖναι τῇ δίκῃ” Sammelb.5681.32 (v A.D.); also “ς. ἐπὶ τούτῳ” D.39.6; “ἐν μικροῖς” E.El.407.
4. c. part., “οὐ γὰρ ἔχω πῶς ἂν στέρξαιμι κακὸν τόδε λεύσσων” S.Tr.992 (anap.); “ς. ξυμφορᾷ νικώμενοι” E.Hipp. 458; Ζεὺς εἴτ᾽ Ἀΐδης ὀνομαζόμενος στέργεις whether thou likest to be named Zeus or Hades, Id.Fr.912 (anap.).
5. rarely c. inf., “οὐκ ἔστεργέ σοι ὅμοιος εἶναι” E.Ion817.
IV. desire, entreat, c. acc. et inf., “Ἀπόλλω καὶ κασιγνήταν . . στέργω μολεῖν” S.OC1094 (lyr.); “μειλιχίοις στέρξοι τε παραιφάμενος ἐπέεσσιν” Orph.A.771 (s.v.l.); for S.OT11 v. supr. 111.1.
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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