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ὠφελ-έω

opheleo

help, aid, succour

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Where it lives

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  • Lovers 3 · 12.55/10k
  • Ways and Means 4 · 10.46/10k
  • Memorabilia 37 · 10.36/10k
  • Alcibiades 2 4 · 9.37/10k
  • Meno 9 · 9.2/10k
  • Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
  • Discourses 61 · 8.22/10k
  • Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
  • Heracles 6 · 7.67/10k
  • Orestes 7 · 7.14/10k
  • Hippias Major 6 · 7.11/10k

Densest 12 of 85 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

help, aid, succour

help, aid, succour, first in Hdt. (v. infr.); opp. βλάπτω, Th. 6.14, Pl. Phd. 107d; opp. ζημιόω, Isoc. 6.5.—Construction:

I to be of use, service

abs., to be of use or service, τὰ μηδὲν ὠφελοῦντα A. Pr. 44, cf. S. Fr. 196, E. IA 348 (troch.), X. Oec. 1.9; οὐδὲν ὠφελεῖ Th. 2.87; τὸ πολλάκις ὠφελοῦν Isoc. 8.35.

2 to be of service to, benefit, to be of use to, help

c. acc. pers., to be of service to, benefit, Hdt. 2.95, A. Pr. 507; τὰς ψυχὰς ὠ. διδάσκοντες X. Cyr. 2.3.23; ὠ. τινα ἔς τι to be of use to one towards a thing, Th. 4.75; τί δέ μʼ ὠφελήσουσʼ οἱ ῥυθμοὶ πρὸς τἄλφιτα; how will rhythms help me to earn my bread? Ar. Nu. 648: abs., ἐπὶ τοῖς δεινοῖσιν E. Fr. 84; διὰ τῶν ὤτων Plu. Aud. 2.38c, cf. Coniug. 145b: c. part., αὐτοὺς ὠφελεῖ προσκείμενον E. Hipp. 970.

b enrich

esp. of a general, enrich his soldiers by booty, Plu. Aem. 29; τοὺς στρατιώτας ὠφεληκὼς ἀπὸ τῶν στρατειῶν Id. Caes. 12; cf. ὠφέλεια II.3.

3

in Poets also (v. Thom.Mag. p.408R.) c. dat. pers., A. Pr. 342, Pers. 842, S. Ant. 560, E. Or. 666, 681, Heracl. 681, Ar. Av. 421 (lyr.); also in Antipho 6.38, and v.l. in Th. 5.23; the compds. προσωφελέω, ἐπωφελέω, συνωφελέω also take both constructions.

4

c. gen., dub. in οὐδεὶς ἔρωτος τοῦδʼ ἐφαίνετʼ ὠφελῶν S. OC 436 (fort. leg. ἔρωτʼ ἐς τόνδʼ).

5 render, service, to do, service

c. acc. cogn., ὠφελίαν ὠ. τινα to render him a service, Pl. R. 519e, cf. Euthd. 275e; ὠφελίαν κοινῇ -οῦνται πάντες οἱ δημιουργοί Id. R. 346c: with a neut. Adj., οὐδέν τινα ὠ. to do one no service, Hdt. 3.126, E. Alc. 875 (lyr.); πολλά, πλέον, πλεῖστον, ὡς πλεῖστα ὠ. τινα, Isoc. 3.30, E. Andr. 679, 681, Th. 6.14.

II receive help, succour, derive profit, advantage, to derive benefit from, by, to make something, help themselves, acquire booty, acquire advantage, to be profited by

Pass., receive help or succour, derive profit or advantage, πρός τινος from a person or thing, Hdt. 2.68; ἔκ τινος A. Pr. 222, Antipho 3.2.3; ἀπό τινος Th. 3.64, X. Oec. 1.15, cf. Gorg. Pal. 10; ὑπό or παρά τινος, Pl. Grg. 512a, Amat. 132d; ὠ. τοῦ νόμου to derive benefit from . . , Antipho 5.17 (dub. l.); τινι by a thing, Th. 3.67; διά τι ib. 13; παρʼ ἐμοῦ ὠφελεῖσθαι to make something out of me, Antipho 2.2.13; ἐκ τῶν ὑμετέρων help themselves, Lys. 27.7: esp. of troops, acquire booty, πολλὰ παρὰ

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