# ἐπιτίθημι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ἐπῐ- (epĭ-, “upon”) +‎ τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ, “to put, place”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /e.pi.tí.tʰɛː.mi/ → /e.piˈti.θi.mi/ → /e.piˈti.θi.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /e.pi.tí.tʰɛː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /e.piˈti.tʰe̝.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /e.piˈti.θi.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /e.piˈti.θi.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /e.piˈti.θi.mi/

### Verb

ἐπῐτῐ́θημῐ • (epĭtĭ́thēmĭ)
* (active voice)
** to lay, put or place upon
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.267
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 426
*** 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 96
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 18
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.140
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.264
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.419
*** Palatine Anthology 7.505
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 17.9
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.589
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.3.14
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.190
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.466
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.183
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 243
*** 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 702
*** to set upon, turn towards
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.46
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.1
** to put on a covering or lid
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.314
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.232
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.370
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.194
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.45
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.240
** to put to, add, grant, or give besides
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.62
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.509
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.400
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.406
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.796
*** (of time) to add, bring on
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.399
**** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 697
** to put on as a finish
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.111
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.256
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.107
*** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 18
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 301E
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 272A
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 776A.4
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Philip 22
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timotheus 42
** to impose or inflict a penalty
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.192
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.120
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.144
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.120
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 838C
*** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Critias 106B
*** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 334
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Funeral Speech 11
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.39
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.357
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.234
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 10.7
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 3.3
** to dispatch a letter
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.42
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.95
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Phormio 28
** to give a name
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.68
*** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 205B
* (middle voice)
** to put on oneself or for oneself
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.30
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.743
*** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 702
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.317
*** 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1210
** to put on or to
*** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 218B
** to set oneself to, apply oneself, employ oneself in
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.1
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.42
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.8.3
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 527D
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 1
*** to make an attempt upon, attack
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.31
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.26
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.61
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians 3.12
**** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 235
**** 396 BCE – 323 BCE, Lycurgus of Athens, Collected Works 125
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.772D
**** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Nicocles 3
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 70
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.42
*** (absolute)
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.96
** to bring on oneself
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1409
** to lay commands on
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.111
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.63
** to give a name
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.554
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1451B.10

#### Derived terms

* ἐπίθετος (epíthetos)
* συνεπιτίθημι (sunepitíthēmi)

### References

* “ἐπιτίθημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἐπιτίθημι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἐπιτίθημι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἐπιτίθημι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἐπιτίθημι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ἐπιτίθημι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G2007 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* ἐπιτίθημι in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften