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Meaning enjoins, commands, directs.[1]
"And [he] gives orders for the departure for Italy."[2]
And elsewhere: "the emperor kindly receives him, and tells him to be of good courage, and if he should want something to order it" (meaning to ask for it) "and he pleaded on behalf of Vonones, son of Phraates, who had been confined in darkness for 30 years."[3]
And elsewhere [sc. is attested the participle] "giving orders", meaning enjoining. "Although it was the custom for the emperor to place in books personal records of whatever might happen while he was giving orders, Justin the emperor neither directed nor was he able to superintend these things being done."[4]
Driven in[to] the cave and seeing his enemies, David calls for the divine mercy, "Have mercy upon me, God, have mercy upon me.'[5]

*)epagge/llei: a)nti\ tou= e)pita/ssei, e)nte/lletai, diakeleu/etai. e)pagge/llei te th\n e)pi\ *)itali/as e)/codon. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ basileu\s filofro/nws de/xetai au)to/n, kai\ keleu/ei qarrei=n, kai\ ei)/ ti qe/loi e)pagge/llein. [a)nti\ tou= ai)tei=sqai.] o( de\ dei=tai u(pe\r *bonw/nou tou= *praa/tou, o(\s h)=n l# e)/th e)n sko/tw| kaqeirgme/nos. kai\ au)=qis *)epagge/llontos, a)nti\ tou= e)pita/ssontos. ei)qisme/non de\ o)\n gra/mmata oi)kei=a toi=s bibli/ois e)ntiqe/nai to\n basile/a, o(/sa a)\n e)pagge/llontos au)tou= ge/noito, *)iousti=nos o( basileu\s ou)/te e)ph/ggeilen ou)/te toi=s prattome/nois cunepi/stasqai oi(=o/s te h)=n. e)n tw=| sphlai/w| kaqeirgme/nos o( *dabi\d kai\ tou\s polemi/ous o(rw=n to\n qei=on e)/leon e)pagge/llei, e)le/hso/n me, o( qeo/s, e)le/hso/n me.

cf. generally epsilon 1914, epsilon 1916, epsilon 1917, epsilon 1918.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2] Herodian (the historian) 7.8.9; see Favuzzi [cited under alpha 1990] 57.
[3] Arrian, Parthica fr.31 Roos-Wirth.
[4] Procopius, Secret History 6.12 (web address 1); cf. epsilon 2158 and Kaldellis (29). Procopius reports that the emperor Justin I was illiterate (see iota 449).
[5] Theodoret (PG 80, 1289b) on Psalm 56:2 LXX.

David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 June 2003@04:09:56.
David Whitehead (corrected my own typo; modified translation) on 24 June 2003@08:32:58.
David Whitehead (modified and expanded n.1; more keywords) on 7 June 2010@09:01:17.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 March 2011@10:06:12.
David Whitehead on 27 September 2012@04:50:51.
David Whitehead (another note; coding and other cosmetics) on 19 January 2016@03:10:00.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation and note) on 30 June 2017@23:09:08.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 30 June 2017@23:28:41.
Catharine Roth on 30 June 2017@23:41:10.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 14 July 2023@01:22:32.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography and link n.4) on 30 May 2024@10:50:32.

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