Etym.: used by Hom. only in 3rd sg. pres. and imperf. steu=tai, steu=to, and once by Aesch. in 3rd pl. steu=ntai

Sense

1. to make as if one would, to promise or threaten that one will, he made eager efforts

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

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