Etym.: turanneu/w always in Hdt.; both in attic Poets, as the metre required.

Sense

1. to be a tu/rannos, an absolute sovereign or despot, to become such, to be a prince or princess
2. to be despotic ruler of
3. to govern, to be governed despotically
4. to be tyrannical, imperious

Examples

• τὼ δ’ ἀντὶ τοῦ φύσαντοσ εἱλέσθην θρόνουσ καὶ σκῆπτρα κραίνειν καὶ τυραννεύειν χθονόσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 4:8)
• ἦν Πίγρησ καὶ Μαντύησ ἄνδρεσ Παίονεσ, οἳ ἐπείτε Δαρεῖοσ διέβη ἐσ τὴν Ἀσίην, αὐτοὶ ἐθέλοντεσ Παιόνων τυραννεύειν ἀπικνέονται ἐσ Σάρδισ, ἅμα ἀγόμενοι ἀδελφεὴν μεγάλην τε καὶ εὐειδέα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 12 2:2)

Similar forms

• τυραννεῖν (56)
• τύραννε (20)
• τυραννεῖσθαι (8)
• τυραννεύσας (6)
• τυραννεῖον (6)
• τυραννεύων (3)
• τυραννεῖ (3)
• τυραννεῖς (3)
• τυραννεῖα (2)
• τυραννεύειν (2)
• τυραννεύει (2)
• τυραννεύοντα (1)
• τυραννεύσῃ (1)
• τυραννείων (1)
• τυραννεύουσι (1)
• τυραννεύσειν (1)
• τυραννεῦσαι (1)
• τυραννείοις (1)
• τυραννεύοντι (1)
• τυραννεύσους (1)
• τυραννεύσασα (1)
• τυραννευθεὶς (1)

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

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