ὑπηρετέω

hypereteo

do service on board ship, as a rower

Appears 23 times across Aristotle's works.

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Rhetoric 6
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Book II 6
Chapter 7 1385a16–1385b10

1385a26
1385a32
1385a33
1385b1
1385b1
1385b7
Politics 5
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Book I 2
Chapter 5 1254a17–1255a2

1254b24

Chapter 8 1256a1–1256b39

1256a7
Book II 1
Chapter 3 1261b16–1262a24

1261b37
Book III 1
Chapter 4 1276b16–1277b32

1277a36
Book V 1
Chapter 9 1309a33–1310a38

1309b12
Eudemian Ethics 4
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Book VII 4
Chapter 2 1235b13–1238b14

1237b19

Chapter 10 1242a1–1243b38

1243a16
1243a22

Chapter 11 1244a1–36

1244a2
De Audibilibus 2
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Chapter 1 800a1–804b39

800b32
801a5
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book IV 1
Chapter 3 1123a34–1125a35

1124b18
Book VIII 1
Chapter 8 1159a12–1159b24

1159b5
Metaphysics 2
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Book Α 2
Chapter 2 982a4–983a23

982a17
982b5
Parts of Animals 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 12 692b3–695a27

693a1
Topics 1
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Book V 1
Chapter 1 128b14–129a35

129a13

Dictionary (LSJ)

ὑπηρετέω, fut. -ήσω Alex. (v. infr.), etc.: plpf. ὑπηρετήκειν X. HG 3.3.9:—A. prop. do service on board ship, as a rower (cf. ὑπηρέτης, ὑπηρεσία), SIG 524.33,47 (Praesus, iii B. C.):—Pass., πλοῖον ὑπὸ δύο ἀνθρώπων ὑπηρετεῖσθαι δυνάμενον D.S. 2.55. II. to be a servant, do service, S. El. 996, Ph. 990; opp. ἄρχω, Ar. V. 518 (troch.); τοὺς διὰ φόβον ὑ. X. Hier. 1.38. 2. c. dat., minister to, serve, τῷ παρόντι δαίμονι S. El. 1306, cf. E. Ph. 1708, Th. 4.108, etc.; ὑ. τῷ χρηστηρίῳ submit to its ruling, Hdt. 8.41, cf. Pl. Lg. 914a; ἔργοις ἀνοσίοις ὑ. S. OC 283; [νόμῳ, λόγῳ], Lys. 2.19; ὑ. τοῖς τρόποις humour his ways, Ar. Ra. 1432; τῷδʼ ὑ. λόγῳ second, support it, E. Med. 588; ὢν ἄνθρωπος ἀνθρώπου τύχαις ὑπηρετήσω Alex. 150. 3. ὑ. τινὶ εἴς or πρός τι, Hdt. 1.109, X. Eq. 8.7, etc.; also ὑ. τινί τι serve one in a thing, οἷς σὺ ταῦθʼ ὑπηρετεῖς S. Ph. 1024, cf. Ar. Pl. 979, Pl. Smp. 196c, X. Cyr. 5.1.20, D. 18.138,59.35. b. in financial sense, τὸν δὲ ταμίαν εἰς τὸ ἀνάλωμα ὑπηρετῆσαι Supp.Epigr. 1.351.30 (Samos, iv B. C.), cf. 363.43 (ibid., iii B. C.), Inscr.Prien. 3 (iv B. C.), 18 (iii B. C.), al. c. at Athens, serve as ὑπηρέτης of the Council, D. 19.70. d. in the Mithraic cult, to be a ὑπηρέτης or servitor, Rev.Hist.Rel. 109.63 (Rome). e. render military service, BGU 180.14,613.23 (both ii A. D.). 4. abs., serve, be subordinate, opp. προστάττω, Arist. Top. 129a13; ἡ ὑπηρετοῦσα ἐπιστήμη Id. Metaph. 982b5: c. neut. pl. of Adj., etc., τὰ λοίφʼ ὑ. help in what remains to be done, S. Ph. 15; ὑ. τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον Pl. R. 467a; and with cogn. acc., ὑ. τὰς διακονικὰς πράξεις Arist. Pol. 1277a36:—Pass., to be done as service, τὰ ἀπʼ ἡμέων ἐς ὑμέας ὑπηρετέεται Hdt. 4.139; χρὴ σὴ τό γε ἐμὸν ὑπηρετέεσθαι that my service should be rendered, Id. 1.108; ἢν τὰ παρʼ ὑμῶν ὑπηρετῆται Isoc. 3.63; τὸ πρᾶγμα τὸ ὑπηρετηθέν Arist. EE 1243a16, cf. X. HG 5.2.34.—The Med. occurs in late texts, as Hld. 7.19, al., and Alciphr. 1.11, dub. in Supp.Epigr. 1.327.19 (Callatis, i A. D.); τὸ -ούμενον the retinue, Memn. 2.4; fut. -ήσομαι POxy. 58.24 (iii A. D.); but in S. El. 1306, ὑπηρετοίην was rightly restored by Musgrave and Elmsl. for -οίμην.

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