A). -έσω Semon. 7.29 , S. El. 1057 , E. Andr. 465 (lyr.), Heracl. [300] , Pl. Smp. 214e (dub. l.), X. An. 1.4.16 , 5.5.8 : but more freq. -έσομαι E. Ba. 1195 (lyr.), Pl. Smp. 199a , R. 379e , 383a , X. HG 3.2.6 , D. 2.31 , etc.; poet. -ήσω Thgn. 93 codd., Pi. P. 10.69 : aor. 1 ἐπῄνεσα S. Aj. 536 , Th. 1.86 , etc. (v. infr.); poet. (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα Il. 2.335 , 18.312 , Thgn. 876 , Pi. P. 4.168 , 189 : also Aeol. prose, Schwyzer 622.21 , 623.31 , 636.17 (but -έσαι 623.34 ): pf. ἐπῄνεκα Isoc. 12.207 , 261 , Pl. Plt. 307a , etc.:— Med., aor. ἐπῃνησάμην Them. Or. 16.200c ; -εσάμην Phalar. Ep. 147 :— Pass., fut. ἐπαινεθήσομαι And. 2.13 , Pl. R. 474d ; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι Longus 4.4 codd.: aor. ἐπῃνέθην Th. 2.25 , Isoc. 12.146 , etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην SIG 708.20 (Istropolis, ii B. C.): pf. ἐπῄνημαι Hp. Acut. 51 , Isoc. 12.233 : = αἰνέω (for which it is regularly used in Att.):—approve, applaud, commend, in Hom. mostly abs., ἐπὶ δ’ ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί Il. 3.461 , etc.: c. acc. rei, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος 2.335 ; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι h.Merc. 457 ; σύνθεσιν Pi. P. 4.168 : c. dat. pers., agree with, side with, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν Il. 18.312 : abs., assent, agree, Ar. Av. 1616 ; ἐπαινεσάντων δ’ αὐτῶν on their assent, Th. 4.65 .

2). praise, commend in any way (the usu. sense in Att. and Trag.), τινά or τι, Alc. 37 A, Hdt. 3.34 , 6.130 ; τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐ. τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν E. Hipp. 264 ; ἐ. τινά τι commend one for a thing, but in this case the thing is always a neut. Pron. or Adj., τὰ μέν σ’ ἐπαινῶ A. Pr. 342 (cf. 111 ); πάντ’ ἔχω σ’ ἐπαινέσαι S. Aj. 1381 , cf. Pl. Smp. 222a ; in Din. 3.22 ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, <ἐπί> shd. be read; ἐπί τινι .. καὶ διότι Inscr.Prien. 44.17 (ii B. C.); εἴς τι Pl. Alc. 1.111a ; κατά τι D.S. 1.37 ; πρός τι Pl. Tht. 145b ; also ἐ. τινά τινος Plu. 2.1c , Luc. Herm. 42 (but ἐ. τί τινος praise something in some one, Pl. Prt. 361d ): c.acc. cogn., ἔπαινον ἐ. Id. La. 181b : c. part., ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον D. 21.73 ; ἐ. τινὰ ὅτι .. Pl. Grg. 471d ; ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα praise one man to another, Id. R. 501c ; esp. compliment publicly, [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ Th. 2.25 ; freq. in honorary Inscrr., cf. IG 22.102 , Inscr.Prien. l.c., etc.: c. dat. pers., τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Σαμίων IG 12.101.2 , cf. SIG 604.11 (Delph., ii B. C.).

3). of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων -ουμένη Isoc. 12.118 , cf. Arist. Pol. 1289a1 ; νόμοι -ούμενοι Id. Rh. 1375b24 ; approve, πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ’ ἐ. τὰ δίκαια A. Th. 1077 .

4). agree to or undertake to do, ῥώμην μ’ ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν E. Andr. 553 ; ἐ. εἰς τὸ λοιπόν PTeb. 8.18 (iii B. C.).

5). aor. ἐπῄνεσα in Att. in pres. sense, ἐπῄνεσ’ ἔργον I commend it, S. Aj. 536 : abs., well done! Id. Fr. 282 , Ar. Ach. 485 , cf. E. Alc. 1095 , Med. 707 .

II). = παραινέω , recommend, advise, τοιούσδ’ ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλους; S. Aj. 1360 , cf. A. Th. 596 , Supp. 996 : c. dat. et inf., ὑμῖν δ’ ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν Id. Ch. 581 ; σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ’ (cf. 1.5 ) S. El. 1322 , cf. OC 665 .

III). as a civil form of declining an offer or invitation, I thank you, I am much obliged, κάλλιστ’, ἐπαινῶ Ar. Ra. 508 (ubi v. Sch.), cf. A. Pr. 342 ; so ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν decline it, X. Smp. 1.7 , cf. An. 7.7.52 .

IV). of Rhapsodists, recite, declaim publicly, Pl. Ion 536d , 541e .