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τι^θα^σ-εύω ,
A.tame, domesticate, τὰ ἥμερα τρέφων καὶ τ. Pl.R.589b; “τιθασεύοντες τὰ χρήσιμα τῶν ζῴων” X.Mem.4.3.10:—Pass., “τ. ὁ ἐλέφας καὶ πειθαρχεῖ” Arist.HA610a29, cf. GA756b22.
2. metaph., “ὑμᾶς τιθασεύουσι χειροήθεις ποιοῦντες” D.3.31; “τ. ἀνθρώπους εἰς φιλότητας” Phld.Lib.p.40 O.; τὰ νοσήματα ἐλαφρύνει τε καὶ τ. Gal.19.211:—Pass., [“ἡ γυνὴ] ἐτετιθάσευτο” X.Oec.7.10, cf. Pl.Plt.264a; of a disease, become milder, Ruf. ap. Aët.11.29.
3. of trees, cultivate, [κοτίνους] εἰς ἐλαίας ἐξημεροῦντες καὶ τ. Plu.Fab.20. Cf. τιθασός fin.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 3, 31
    • Plato, Republic, 589b
    • Plato, Statesman, 264a
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.3.10
    • Xenophon, Economics, 7.10
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 20
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