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φαρμᾰκ-εύω

pharmakeuo

administer a drug

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Where it lives

  • Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
  • Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
  • Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
  • Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
  • Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
  • Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

administer a drug, medicine

administer a drug or medicine, Pl. R. 459c, Ti. 89d.

2 use enchantments, practise sorcery, having used, charm

use enchantments, practise sorcery, φαρμακεύσαντες ταῦτα ἐς τὸν ποταμόν having used this charm upon the river, Hdt. 7.114.

II purge, purge, to be purged, to be physicked

c. acc. pers., purge, τινα Hp. Acut.(Sp.) 55; φ. ἄνω κούφῳ φαρμάκῳ purge upwards, i. e. by an emetic, Id. Art. 67, cf. Aph. 4.12:—Pass., to be purged, ib. 2.37, Men. Her.Fr. 5; to be physicked, Arist. Top. 111a2.

2 drug, give, a poisonous, stupefying drug

drug a person, give him a poisonous or stupefying drug, E. Andr. 355, SIG 1181.4 (Rhenea, ii B. C.); φ. τινὰ ἐπὶ βλάβῃ μὴ θανασίμῳ Pl. Lg. 933d:—Pass., οὐ πεφαρμάκευσαι ἀλλὰ μεμάγ<ε>υσαι Astramps. Orac. 25.4 (ii A. D.), cf. POxy. 472.1 (ii A. D.).

3 season

season in cookery, [ἰχθὺν] πεφαρμακευμένον τυροῖσι Philem. 79.5.

4

metaph., πειθοῖ κακῇ τὴν ψυχὴν φ. Gorg. Fr. 11 D.

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