Ancient Greek

Verb

ᾰ̓παγγέλλω • ‎(apangéllō)

1. (of a messenger, transitive, ditransitive) to bring tidings, report, announce [+accusative = something], [+dative = to someone]
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.626–627

     ἀπαγγεῖλαι δὲ τάχιστα / χρὴ μῦθον Δαναοῖσι

     it is best to quickly bring the story to the Danaans

   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.25
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 266
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.3.22
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.4
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.2.25
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.4
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 71.C
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.122
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 641
   • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1241
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.127
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.3.5
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, For the Soldier 6
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.95
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 25
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121.5
   1. (of a speaker or writer, transitive) to report, relate, narrate
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.210

        "... εἰ δέ τις τοι ὄψις ἀπαγγέλλει παῖδα τὸν ἐμὸν νεώτερα βουλεύειν περὶ σέο, ἐγώ τοι παραδίδωμι χρᾶσθαι αὐτῷ τοῦτο ὅ τι σὺ βούλεαι."

        But if someone is telling you that my own younger son has been plotting against you, I give him over to you to treat him as you wish.

      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.16.10
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 3.1
      • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 72
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 84.G
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 16
   2. (transitive) I recite, declaim
2. (transitive) I explain, interpret
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 41.8
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judges 14.12

Inflection

Derived terms

• ᾰ̓παγγελεύς ‎(apangeleús)
• ᾰ̓παγγελῐ́ᾱ ‎(apangelíā)
• ᾰ̓πάγγελσῐς ‎(apángelsis)
• ᾰ̓παγγελτήρ ‎(apangeltḗr)
• ᾰ̓παγγελτῐκός ‎(apangeltikós)
• προᾰπαγγέλλω ‎(proapangéllō)
• προσᾰπαγγέλλω ‎(prosapangéllō)

References

• ἀπαγγέλλω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀπαγγέλλω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀπαγγέλλω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀπαγγέλλω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀπαγγέλλω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀπαγγέλλω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀπαγγέλλω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G518”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979