ἀξιόω

From ἄξιος (áxios, “worthy”) +‎ -όω (-óō, factitive verb–forming suffix).

ᾰ̓ξῐόω • (ăxĭóō) (Attic, Ionic)

1. to think or deem worthy
   1. (transitive) to think [with accusative ‘someone’] worthy, either in a good or bad sense [with genitive ‘of something’]
      • 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 962
      • c. 370 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.7
      • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.145
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 38A
      • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.111
      • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 366
      • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 122.23
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 103E
      1. (transitive) to esteem, honor
         • c. 445 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1114
         • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 918
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 903
         • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1210
      2. (intransitive) to value at a certain price
         • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 917D
   2. (transitive) to think [with accusative ‘someone’] worthy [with infinitive ‘to do or be’]
      • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 572:

        ὦ πολύξεινος καὶ ἐλευθέρου ἀνδρὸς ἀεί ποτ' / οἶκος, / σέ τοι καὶ ὁ Πύθιος εὐλύρας Ἀπόλλων / ἠξίωσε ναίειν, / ἔτλα δὲ σοῖσι μηλονόμας / ἐν νομοῖς γενέσθαι, / δοχμιᾶν διὰ κλειτύων / βοσκήμασι σοῖσι συρίζων / ποιμνίτας ὑμεναίους.

        ô polúxeinos kaì eleuthérou andròs aeí pot’ / oîkos, / sé toi kaì ho Púthios eulúras Apóllōn / ēxíōse naíein, / étla dè soîsi mēlonómas / en nomoîs genésthai, / dokhmiân dià kleitúōn / boskḗmasi soîsi surízōn / poimnítas humenaíous.

        O always and forever the hospitable home of a free man, truly Pythian Apollo, skilled in the lyre, thought you worth inhabiting, and suffered to become a shepherd in your fields, playing shepherd's marriage songs on pipes for your fatted flock through the slanting hills.

      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 182
      • 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Good-For-Nothings 7
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.73
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 240
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 161D
      1. (transitive) to think fit, expect, require, demand that; compare Latin postulō
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.162
         • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 118.20
         • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.89
         • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 18.36
   3. (intransitive) to think one has a right [with infinitive ‘to do’]
      • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.42
      • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.15
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 164.32
      • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.86
      1. (intransitive) to think fit, expect, consent, resolve, deign, dare [with infinitive ‘to do’]
         • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 944
         • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 335
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1661
         • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Hippias Minor 364D
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 547.9:

           οἶμαι πάντας...φέρειν ἀξιοῦν

           oîmai pántas...phérein axioûn

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.20
         • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 215
         • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.102
         • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 21.4
         • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.66
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 370
         • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 425
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.199
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.!6
      2. (transitive) to think, deem, hold
         • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.87
         • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.54
   4. (intransitive, transitive) to make a claim
      • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.58
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 3.17.6
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, Histories 39.1.7
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.11
      1. to hold an opinion
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 312.6:

           ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν οὑτωσὶ περὶ τῆς τύχης ἀξιῶ

           egṑ mèn oûn houtōsì perì tês túkhēs axiô

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 460.28:

           ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἀξιῶ

           egṑ mèn ouk axiô

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      2. (philosophy) to lay down, hold, maintain
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.17.5
         • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 1.24.2
         • 431 BCE – 404 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.43

• “ἀξιόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀξιόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἀξιόω”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G515 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible