Ancient Greek

Noun

πειθώ • ‎(peithṓ) f ‎(genitive πειθόος, πειθοῦς); third declension

1. persuasion
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 173

     καί μ᾽ οὔτι μελιγλώσσοις πειθοῦς ἐπαοιδαῖσιν θέλξει

     Not by persuasion's honeyed enchantments will he charm me

   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 453.a

     λέγεις ὅτι πειθοῦς δημιουργός ἐστιν ἡ ῥητορική

     you say that rhetoric is a producer of persuasion

   1. means of persuasion, inducement, argument
      • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 104

        πειθὼ γὰρ εἶχον τήνδε πρὸς δάμαρτ᾽ ἐμήν

        Yes, this was the inducement I offered my wife.

   2. obedience
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.3.19.In this Cyrus admired both the captain's cleverness and the men's obedience

        ταῦτα δ᾽ ἀγασθεὶς ὁ Κῦρος, τοῦ μὲν ταξιάρχου τὴν ἐπίνοιαν, τῶν δὲ τὴν πειθώ

Inflection

References

• πειθώ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • conciliation idem, page 155.
  • conviction idem, page 172.
  • eloquence idem, page 265.
  • inducement idem, page 434.
  • persuasion idem, page 608.
  • propaganda idem, page 653.
  • suasion idem, page 830.
  • undue idem, page 915.