Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἰθύνω ‎(ithúnō) Homeric

Verb

εὐθῡ́νω • ‎(euthū́nō)

1. I guide straight, direct
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 289
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1739
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 15
   • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 39
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 728
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 32
   • New Testament, Epistle of James 3.4
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 542
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.1.2
   1. I direct, govern
      • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 773
      • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 9
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Minos 320d
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 178
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1164
2. I make straight
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.28
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.46
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.153
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 638 BCE – 558 BCE, Solon, Collected Works 4.37
3. I examine someone's conduct
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1271a6
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1419a31
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   1. (with genitive, of a criminal) I call to account for
      • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Fragments 90
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cicero 9
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.95
   2. I refute, censure
      • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Piety 67
      • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Phenomena and Inferences 30
      • 204 CE – 270 CE, Plotinus, Collected Works 3.6.13
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Nicias 1
   3. I examine by torture
      • 500 CE – 565 CE, Procopius, The Gothic War 3.32

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References

• εὐθύνω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• εὐθύνω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «εὐθύνω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• εὐθύνω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2116”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979