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ἐφοδ-ιάζω , Ion. ἐποδ- ,
A.furnish with supplies for a journey, “ἀποπέμπουσι ἐποδιάσαντες ἐς Ἀθήνας” Hdt. 9.99; τινα Plu.Cat.Mi.65: c. dupl. acc., “ἐφόδιον -ιάσεις αὐτόν” LXX De.15.14: metaph., of Philosophy, “ἐ. τινὰ πρὸς τὴν στρατείαν” Plu. 2.327e:—Med., supply oneself, “ἐκ τῆς πόλεως” Plb.18.20.2:—Pass., to be supplied with, τι LXX Jo.9.12; “λαμπρῶς -ασθείς” J.BJ2.7.1: metaph., Ph.1.535; “διὰ τὸ μὴ ἐφωδιάσθαι ἀπὸ φυσιολογίας” Theo Sm. p.188 H.
2. generally, supply or furnish with a thing, “αὑτοὺς ἀλκῇ καὶ ὅπλοις” D.S.5.34; also “ταῦτά σοι ἐφωδίασα” Apollod.Poliorc.138.1.
3. reduce to system, Ptol.Tetr.9.
4. = impetum facio, irruo, Gloss.
II. Med., c. acc. rei, πενταδραχμίαν ἑκάστῳ ἐφοδιασάμενος having seen that five drachmae were paid to each, X.HG1.6.12.
2. metaph., maintain, promote, “ἀργίαν” Plu.Sol.23; “τὴν ἀπείθειαν” Id.Cor.16.
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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