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ἐπιμετρ-έω ,
A.measure out to, “οὐκ ἐπιδώσω οὐδ᾽ ἐπιμετρήσω” Hes.Op. 397:—Pass., ὁ ἐπιμετρεόμενος σῖτος the corn paid by measure to the Persians, Hdt.3.91.
II.. add to the measure, give over and above, “ἐ. ὀβολὸν τοῖς ναύταις” Plu.Lys.4, cf. Alex.42; ἄλλα τοσαῦτα [ἔτη] Luc.DMort.5.1; ἐ. στρατηγίας χρόνον prolong one's magistracy, Plu. Comp.Ages.Pomp.3, etc.; add, in speaking, “πολλά” Plb.28.17.2, etc.: c. gen. partit., ἐ. σκωμμάτων add some jests, Luc.Nav.19; ἐ. τινί add to it, ib.18, Plb.3.118.6: abs., `add insult to injury', Id.5.15.8; so “τὸ ἐπιμετροῦν τῆς ἀπεχθείας” Id.12.15.12.
III.. ἐ. τὸν οὐρανόν measure it, v.l. in Luc.Icar.6.
2.. reduce to measure or order, τὸν “ἀνθρώπινον βίον” Hierocl.mCA20p.462M.
IV.. intr., ὁ ἐπιμετρῶν λόγος, of superfluous additions, Plb.7.7.7, al.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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