Ancient Greek

Verb

σκέπτομαι • ‎(sképtomai)

1. I look at, examine
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 943

     σκέψασθε δ᾽ ἐς τόνδ᾽

     Look at this man

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.247

     σκεψάμενος δ᾽ ἐς νῆα θοὴν ἅμα καὶ μεθ᾽ ἑταίρους

     Looking at once at both ship and men

2. I examine, consider, think
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1028

     σκέψασθε, πρὸς θεῶν, τὴν τύχην δυοῖν βροτοῖν.

     Consider, by the gods, the fortune of these two men.

   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.38

     καὶ δῆτα, ὃ πολλάκις ἐσκεψάμην, τί καὶ βούλεσθε, ὦ νεώτεροι;

     And after all, as I have often asked, what would you have, young men?

   1. (rarely) I think, deem
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 854.c

        καλλίω θάνατον σκεψάμενος

        deeming death the more noble way

   2. I prepare, premeditate
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 158

        καὶ τοιούτους λόγους σχολὴν ἄγοντ᾽ ἐσκέφθαι περὶ πάντων ὥστ᾽ εὖ εἰδέναι

        and he has thought out at leisure such fine arguments on every point

      • 349 BCE, Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 1

        οὐ γὰρ μόνον εἴ τι χρήσιμον ἐσκεμμένος ἥκει τις,

        For not only if someone comes forward with a well-considered plan,

Usage notes

The present and imperfect are suppleted from σκοπέω ‎(skopéō) in Attic.

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References

• σκέπτομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σκέπτομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σκέπτομαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963

Greek

Verb

σκέπτομαι • ‎(sképtomai) ‎(simple past σκέφτηκα or σκέφθηκα, deponent)

1. Alternative form of σκέφτομαι ‎(skéftomai)

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