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ἐγκρίνω [ι_],
A.reckon in or among: reckon as, τίν᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ἄριστον ἐγκρίναιεν ἄν; E.HF183.
2. of persons, select, admit, “ἐ. ἢ συγκρ.” 2 Ep.Cor.10.12:—Pass., “εἰς τὴν αἵρεσιν” Pl.Lg.755d; “εἰς τὴν γερουσίαν” D.20.107; <“εἰς> τὸ στάδιον” X.HG4.1.40; of ἔφηβοι, IG7.29 (iii/ii B. C.); of athletes, Artem.1.59; ἐγκρινόμενος, ὁ, subject of statue by Alcamenes, Plin.HN34.72.
3. admit, accept, opp. ἀποκρίνω, Pl.Lg.936a; “ἐν τοῖς φιλοσόφοις” Id.R.486d, cf. Lg.952a, al.; “τρία γένη σημείων” Phld.Sign.32; παλιγγενεσίαν Sch.Pi.O.2.104; regard as genuine, “νομίσματα” Phld.Rh.1.256 S.; admit, sanction, e.g. an author as classical, Suid. s.v. Δείναρχος.
4. approue, Plb.9.2.4 (Pass.), Plu.2.11f; ἀριθμὸς ἐγκρίνεται is adopted, Ael.Tact.8.3.
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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