The corpus record

ἐμπεδ-όω

empedoo

confirm, ratify

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Where it lives

Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Cyropaedia 3 · 0.38/10k
Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k

What it meant

ἐμπεδ-όω · emped-oō — LSJ

confirm, ratify, uphold

confirm, ratify, σὺ δʼ ἐμπέδου δόσιν S. Ichn. 50; ὅρκον E. IT 790, cf. Ar. Lys. 211, 233, Polem.Hist. 83; σπονδάς X. HG 3.4.6; τὰ . . ὁρκωμόσιά τε καὶ ὑποσχέσεις Pl. Phdr. 241b; ὅρκους καὶ δεξιάς τινι X. Cyr. 5.1.22; συνθήκας Plb. 29.24.4; ὁμολογίας D.H. 4.79; ἀποδείξεσι δόγμα Gal. 5.315; uphold, νόμους Plu. Sol. 25:—Med., σπονδήν, ἀσφάλειαν ἐμπεδώσασθαι, Ph. 1.439, Luc. Hipp. 4.

In the wild

κἀμπεδώσετε · kampedōsete Aristophanes, Lysistrata 211 (DIORISIS sentence 181)
ἐμπεδώσομεν · empedōsomen Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 452)
ἠμπέδου · ēmpedou Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.21 (DIORISIS sentence 1263)
ἐμπεδώσωσιν · empedōsōsin Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1816)
ἐμπεδώσω · empedōsō Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.1.22 (DIORISIS sentence 2362)
ἐμπεδώσειν · empedōsein Xenophon, Hellenica 3.4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 1076)

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