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ἐπαγγελία

ἐπαγγελία, a public denunciation

ἐπαγγ-ελία, ἡ,
  • command, summons, Plb. 9.38.2.
        • b announcement, notice, IG 2(2).1235.7 (iii B.C.); τοῦ ἀγῶνος SIG 561.9 (Chalcis), prob. in LXX 1 Ma. 10.15; v.l. in 1 Ep.Jo. 1.5.
      • 2 as law-term, ἐ. (sc. δοκιμασίας) summons to attend a δοκιμασία τῶν ῥητόρων (v. ἐπαγγέλλω 3), ἐ. τινὶ ἐπαγγέλλειν Aeschin. 1.64, cf. 81; πρὸς τοὺς θεσμοθέτας ἔσθʼ ἡμῖν ἐ. D. 22.29: generally, notification, summons, Sammelb. 4434 (ii A.D.).
      • 3 offer, promise, profession, undertaking, D. 21.14; τὰς ὑπερβολὰς τῶν ἐ. Arist. EN 1164a29, cf. Phld. Herc. 1251.20; ἐπαγγελίας ποιεῖσθαί τινι Plb. 1.72.6; ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ καταλιπών having left it as a promise, Id. 18.28.1; τὴν ἐ. ἐπὶ τέλος ἀγαγεῖν ibid., cf. SIG 577.11 (Milet., iii/ii B. C.); ὤμων ἐπαγγελίᾳ the promise of his shoulders, Philostr. Im. 1.4; ἐξ ἐ., = ἐπαγγειλάμενος, BCH 11.12 (Lagina); ἐ. ποιησάμενος ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων Michel 473.10 (Mylasa); ἐβεβαίωσεν τὴν ἐ. Inscr.Prien. 123.9, cf. GDI 3624a34 (Cos).
      • 4 indication, τοῦ ἐσομένου A.D. Synt. 205.13.
      • 5 pl., canvassing, = Lat. ambitus, prob. f.l. for παρ-, Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.276d.
      • 6 = ἐπάγγελμα 2, subject of a treatise, Gal. Libr.Propr.Prooem.
      • 7 the curative property claimed for prescriptions or drugs, ταῖς τῶν φαρμάκων ἐ. their advertised properties, Herod.Med. ap. Orib. 10.5.1, cf. Gal. 13.504, al.; ἐ. ἐπιτηδεύματος public exercise of a profession, Men.Prot. p.1 D.

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