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δοκέω

I.= videor mihi, to think, suppose, imagine, expect, c. acc. et inf., δοκέω νικησέμεν Il.; οὔ σε δοκέω πείθεσθαι Hdt.; τεκεῖν δράκοντ᾽ ἔδοξεν she thought a serpent bare young ones, Aesch.; ἔδοξα ἰδεῖν, Lat. visus sum videre, methought I saw, Eur.; ἀείδειν δοκῶ I think to sing, Aesch.
2.absol. to have or form an opinion, περί τινος Hdt.; in parenthetic phrases, ὡς δοκῶ Trag.; πῶς δοκεῖς; how think you? Eur.
3.δοκῶ μοι in attic, just like δοκεῖ μοι, as Lat. videor mihi for videtur mihi, I seem to myself, methinks, c. inf., Hdt., etc.; also, I am determined, resolved, c. inf., Ar.
4.c. inf., also, to seem or pretend to be doing, Lat. simulo, or with a negat. to seem or pretend not to be doing, Lat. dissimulo; ἤκουσά του λέγοντος, οὐ δοκῶν κλύειν Eur.
II.= videor, to seem to one, δοκέεις δέ μοι οὐκ ἀπινύσσειν Od., etc.
2.absol. to seem, as opp. to reality, οὐ δοκεῖν, ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει Aesch.
3.to seem good, Lat. placere, εἰ δοκεῖ σοι ταῦτα id=Aesch.
4.impers., δοκεῖ μοι much in the same sense as δοκῶ μοι (supr. I. 3), it seems to me, meseems, methinks, ὥς μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι ἄριστα Il., etc.:—in decrees and the like, ἔδοξε τῆι βουλῆι, placuit senatui, Ar., Thuc., etc.; τὸ δόξαν the decree, Hdt.; τὰ δόξαντα Soph.; παρὰ τὸ δοκοῦν ἡμῖν Thuc.:—so in Pass., δέδοκται, Lat. visum est, Hdt., Trag., etc.
5.to be thought or reputed so and so, ἄξιοι δοκοῦντες id=Thuc.; οἱ δοκοῦντες εἶναί τι men who are held to be something, men of repute, Plat.; so οἱ δοκοῦντες alone, Eur.; τὰ δοκοῦντα, opp. to τὰ μηδὲν ὄντα, id=Eur.; also in Pass., οἱ δεδογμένοι ἀνδροφόνοι those who have been found guilty of homicide, Dem.

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