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διεγγυ-άω

diegguao

give bail to produce

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διεγγυ-άω · diengy-aō — LSJ

I give bail to produce, to take bail for, to be bailed, bailed

give bail to produce, σώματα D.H. 7.12:—Med., to take bail for, κατεγγυῶντος (v.l. δι-) Μενεξένου τὸν παῖδα, Πασίων αὐτὸν ἑπτὰ ταλάντων διεγγυήσατο Isoc. 17.14, cf. Plu. Caes. 11:—Pass., to be bailed by any one, ὀκτακοσίων ταλάντων τοῖς προξένοις διηγγυημένοι bailed by their Proxeni for eight hundred talents, Th. 3.70.

2 give security

give security, SIG 976.49 (Samos, ii B. C.).

II take pledges, distrain

take pledges, distrain, ib. 629.20 (ii B. C.).

III mortgage

abs., mortgage oneʼs property, LXX Ne. 5.3.

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