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διορθ-όω ,
A.make straight, Hp.Art.38.
2. δ. λόγον tell my tale aright, Pi.O.7.21.
II. set right, restore to order, Isoc.9.47; δ. λόγοις ἔριν make up a quarrel, E.Hel.1159 (lyr.); δ. ἀδικήματα amend them, Plb.4.24.4; δ. τὴν Ἰλιάδα correct or revise it, Plu.Alex.8, cf. Alc.7 (Pass.), Porph.Plot.7, al.:—Med., amend for oneself, “διορθοῦσθαι τὰ μέλλοντα” Isoc.4.181; “τἀγνοούμενα” D.Ep.1.3; “σφᾶς αὐτούς” Plb.24.10.12; δ. πίστιν make good, redeem it, Id.1.7.12; “τὰ προσοφειλόμενα” pay off, Id.12.28.5 (cf. 111); maintain in argument, Aeschin.2.112:—but freq. like Act., “ἐξέστω διορθώσασθαι τὰς συνθήκας” SIG581.85 (Crete, ii B. C.); “δ. τὴν Ἰλλυριῶν ἄγνοιαν” Plb.3.16.4, etc.; also διορθοῦσθαι ὑπέρ τινος take full security for . . , D.33.11.
III. pay, “τὸ λοιπόν” PHib.1.63.13 (iii B. C.); “τόκον” POxy.483.16 (ii A. D.):—Med., PRev.Laws 18.14, al. (iii B. C.); “φόρους” PEleph. 14.1 (iii B. C.), cf. PSI5.509.13 (iii B. C.), etc.; “ἀργύριον” BCH46.420 (Caria, i B. C.).
IV. reconcile, “τινά τινι” Philostr.VS1.17.2.
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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