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παιδᾰγωγ-έω

paidagogeo

attend as a παιδαγωγός, lead

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Where it lives

  • Alcibiades 1 2 · 1.95/10k
  • Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
  • Timaeus 2 · 0.85/10k
  • Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
  • Laws 5 · 0.48/10k
  • Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
  • Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
  • Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
  • Enneads 3 · 0.14/10k
  • Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

attend as a παιδαγωγός, lead, manage like a child

attend as a παιδαγωγός, lead or manage like a child, γέρων γέροντα παιδαγωγήσω σʼ ἐγώ S. Fr. 695 (= E. Ba. 193); ἦ παιδαγωγεῖν γὰρ τὸν ὁπλίτην χρεών ; Id. Heracl. 729:—Pass., of a child, Hp. l.c.

2 train, guide, educate, moderate, guide, led, managed

generally, train, guide, educate, moderate, τινα Pl. Tht. 167c; τὰς ἐπιθυμίας Muson. Fr. 7p.29H.; τὸ θέατρον . . π. τὰ ἤθη τῶν ὁρώντων Luc. Salt. 72, cf. Tim. 13; guide an elephantʼs trunk, Ael. NA 2.11:—Pass., συμποσίου ὀρθῶς παιδαγωγηθέντος well led, managed, Pl. Lg. 641b; τὴν παιδαγωγηθεῖσαν οὕτω πόλιν ib. 752c; ἂν ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου παιδαγωγηθῇ τὸ πάθος Plu. Virt.mor. 2.443d.

3 attend like a παιδαγωγός, wait upon, follow

attend like a παιδαγωγός, wait upon, follow, Pl. R. 600e, Alc. 1.135d.

4 cajole

‘lead by the nose’, cajole, in Pass., ὑπό τινος Hyp. Ath. 3.

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