ἐπαιν-έω,
Aeolic dialect ἐπαίνημι [
Refs 4th c.BC+];
Laconian dialect ἐπαινίω [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
imperfect ἐπῄνεον Il [
Refs]:
future -έσω[
Refs 7th c.BC+]: but more frequently
-έσομαι[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
poetry -ήσω [
Refs 6th c.BC+]:
aorist 1 ἐπῄνεσα [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: also
Aeolic dialect prose, [
Refs]:
perfect ἐπῄνεκα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
middle,
aorist ἐπῃνησάμην [
Refs 4th c.AD+];
-εσάμην [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—
passive,
future ἐπαινεθήσομαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+] codices:
aorist ἐπῃνέθην [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
perfect ἐπῄνημαι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
approve, applaud, commend, in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: with
dative person,
agree with, side with, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν [
Refs 8th c.BC+]:
absolutely,
assent, agree, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπαινεσάντων δ᾽ αὐτῶν on their
assent, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2)
praise, commend in any way (the usually sense in
Attic dialect and Trag.), τινά or τι, [
Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἐ. τινά τι
commend one
for a thing, but in this case the thing is always a
neuter pronoun or
adjective, τὰ μέν σ᾽ ἐπαινῶ [
Refs 5th c.BC+] ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, [ἐπί] should be read; ἐπί τινι. καὶ διότι [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; εἴς τι [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
praise something in some one, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: with
participle, ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα
praise one man to another, [
Refs]; especially
compliment publicly, [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently in honorary Inscrr,[
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
3) of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων -ουμένη [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
approve, πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐ. τὰ δίκαια [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
4)
agree to or
undertake to do, ῥώμην μ᾽ ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
5)
aorist ἐπῄνεσα in
Attic dialect in
present sense, ἐπῄνεσ᾽ ἔργον I
commend it, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:
absolutely,
well done! [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II) ={παραινέω},
recommend, advise, τοιούσδ᾽ ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλου; [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: with
dative et
infinitive, ὑμῖν δ᾽ ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν [
Refs]; σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ᾽[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III) as a civil form of declining an offer or invitation, I
thank you, I
am much obliged, κάλλιστ᾽, ἐπαινῶ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν
decline it, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV) of Rhapsodists,
recite, declaim publicly, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]