Ancient Greek

Verb

ὠνέομαι • ‎(ōnéomai)

1. to buy, purchase
   1. 1. (in present and imperfect tenses) to offer to buy, deal for, bargain or bid for
         • Hesiod, Works and Days 339
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.1
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.69
         • Herodotus, Histories 1.165, (Compare 3.139, 6.121)
         • Alexis, Apeglaukomenos 2.10, (Compare The Heiress 1)
         • Plato, Laws 741.B
         • Herodotus, Histories 5.6
         • Plato, Protagoras 313.D–E
         • Demosthenes 123.21
         • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 5.17
      2. (with dative) to buy from
         • Aristophanes, The Acharnians 815
         • Aristophanes, Peace 1261
         • Xenophon, Hellenica 7.2.17
         • Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.21
      3. (with genitive) to buy for such a price
         • Herodotus, Histories 5.6
         • Euripides, Hecuba 360
         • Xenophon, Anabasis 7.6.24
         • Aristotle, Politics 5.11.31
      4. (with dative) to buy with
         • Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1.170
         • Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.10.4
         • Xenophon, Agesilaus 1.18
         • Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.27, (Compare 5.5.14)
      5. (participial substantive, ὁ ὠνούμενος) the buyer, purchaser, owner
         • Xenophon, On Horsemanship 3.2, (compare Demosthenes 309.15, Plutarch, Cato the Younger 36)
         • Aristophanes, Plutus 7
         • Plutarch, Moralia 2.242.D
         • Dinarchus, Collected Works 109.30
         • Euripides, Helen 902
         • Xenophon, Hiero 9.11
         • Plutarch, Moralia 2.457.D
         • Lysias, Collected Works 180.15
         • Aeschylus, The Suppliants 336
   2. to farm public taxes or tolls, or rather to bid for them
      • Andocides, Collected Works 17.28
      • Lysias, Collected Works 108.26
      • Xenophon, Ways and Means 4.19
      • Demosthenes 435.7
   3. to buy off, avert by giving hush money
      • Demosthenes 96.7
      • Demosthenes 990.17
      • Demosthenes 987.7
      • Lucian, Hermotimus 8l
      • Plutarch, Sertorius 6
      • Herodian, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus 6.7
   4. to buy a person, to bribe
      • Demosthenes 309.15
      • Demosthenes 122.21, (Compare Plutarch, Philopoemen 15.322)

        ὠνεῖται καὶ διαφθείρει τινάς

Inflection

Antonyms

• (buy): πωλέω ‎(pōléō), πιπράσκω ‎(pipráskō)

References

• ὠνέομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὠνέομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὠνέομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G5608”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• LSJ 8th edition