[Meaning he/she/it] was guaranteeing.
*)hggu/a: e)bebai/ou.
An entry not literally excerpted from the
Lexicon Ambrosianum: Ambrosianus B12 sup. fol. 76v has
h)ggu/a: e)peti/qei, e)bebai/ou, 'was giving as a pledge', [meaning] was offering, was guaranteeing.
Photius,
Lexicon eta19 Theodoridis and Herennius
Philo,
De diversis verborum significationibus eta88 Palmieri (where perhaps the Photian entry is taken from) have the gloss
w(molo/gei dw/sein, 'was agreeing to give'.
h)ggu/a is imperfect indicative active, third person singular, of
e)ggua/w (
epsilon 169), a verb commonly used in the classical period. In this precise form it occurs twice in
Isaeus (3.45 & 70) and twice in
Demosthenes (41.6 & 16).
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