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

• ἀλλὰ μαρτύρομαι, ὡσ ἐμοῦ τοιαῦτα μεγαλαυχομένου περὶ τῶν ἐμῶν οὔτε ὑμεῖσ οὔτε ἄλλοσ πω ἀκήκοεν, οὐδ’ ἂν ἀκούσειέν ποτε. (Lucian, Electrum, (no name) 6:3)
• ἣ δὲ καὶ ὣσ κατὰ θυμὸν ἑὸν τίεσκεν ἀκοίτην, ὡσ οὔ πώ τισ ἔτισε γυναικῶν θηλυτεράων· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 2:5)
• οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖνό πω δύναμαι κατανοῆσαι ὅ τι τὸ τερπνὸν αὐτοῖσ, ὁρᾶν παιομένουσ τε καὶ διαπληκτιζομένουσ ἀνθρώπουσ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν γῆν ἀραττομένουσ καὶ συντριβομένουσ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 11:4)
• οὐ γάρ πω δαί̈φρων παῦσεν] χόλον ἀγροτέρα Λατοῦσ θυγάτηρ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 10:2)
• οὔτε γὰρ ἡ γονή πω αὐτοῖσ πέπηγεν, ἀλλ̓ ἐστιν ἐξίτηλοσ τὸ πολὺ καὶ ἀμαυρά, καθάπερ ἡ τῶν παίδων, αὐτοί τε διαφθείρονται πάμπαν, ὡσ μηδὲν ἔτι πράττοντα ὕστερον ὀρθῶσαι τὴν ἁμαρτίαν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 26 4:2)

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

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