Etym.: The forms e)pa_sa/mhn, pe/pa_mai must not be confounded with e)pasa/mhn, pe/pasmai from pate/omai, to eat.

Sense

1. to get, acquire, when you've got slaves, to possess

Examples

• παῖδεσ, πῆ με λιποῦσα πολύστονον ᾤχετο μήτηρ, ἣ χθιζόν σὺν ἐμοὶ θαλάμων κληῖδασ ἑλοῦσα ἔδραθεν ὑπνώουσα καὶ ἐσ μίαν ἤλυθεν εὐνήν; (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1161)
• ὁ δὲ λεκτικὸσ πῇ μὲν ὅμοιοσ Ἡροδότου, πῇ δὲ ἐνδεέστεροσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 4 3:1)
• οὐδὲ τὴν σύνθεσιν ἐπιδείκνυται τὴν φυσικὴν καὶ ἀφελῆ καὶ ἐναγώνιον, ὥσπερ ἡ Λυσίου, ἀλλὰ πεποιημένην μᾶλλον εἰσ σεμνότητα πομπικὴν καὶ ποικίλην καὶ πῇ μὲν εὐπρεπεστέραν ἐκείνησ πῇ δὲ περιεργοτέραν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 2 1:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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