δοκέω = videor mihi, to think, suppose, imagine, expect, c. acc. et inf., δοκέω νικησέμεν Il.; οὔ σε δοκέω πείθεσθαι Hdt.; τεκεῖν δράκοντʼ ἔδοξεν she thought a serpent bare young ones, Aesch.; ἔδοξα ἰδεῖν, Lat. visus sum videre, methought I saw, Eur.; ἀείδειν δοκῶ I think to sing, Aesch. absol. to have or form an opinion, περί τινος Hdt.; in parenthetic phrases, ὡς δοκῶ Trag.; πῶς δοκεῖς; how think you? Eur. δοκῶ μοι in Attic, just like δοκεῖ μοι, as Lat. videor mihi for videtur mihi, I seem to myself, methinks, c. inf., Hdt., etc.; also, I am determined, resolved, c. inf., Ar. c. inf., also, to seem or pretend to be doing, Lat. simulo, or with a negat. to seem or pretend not to be doing, Lat. dissimulo; ἤκουσά του λέγοντος, οὐ δοκῶν κλύειν Eur. = videor, to seem to one, δοκέεις δέ μοι οὐκ ἀπινύσσειν Od., etc. absol. to seem, as opp. to reality, οὐ δοκεῖν, ἀλλʼ εἶναι θέλει Aesch. to seem good, Lat. placere, εἰ δοκεῖ σοι ταῦτα Aesch. impers., δοκεῖ μοι much in the same sense as δοκῶ μοι (supr. I. 3), it seems to me, meseems, methinks, ὥς μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι ἄριστα Il., etc.:—in decrees and the like, ἔδοξε τῆι βουλῆι, placuit senatui, Ar., Thuc., etc.; τὸ δόξαν the decree, Hdt.; τὰ δόξαντα Soph.; παρὰ τὸ δοκοῦν ἡμῖν Thuc.:—so in Pass., δέδοκται, Lat. visum est, Hdt., Trag., etc. acc. absol. δόξαν, when it was decreed or resolved, δόξαν αὐτοῖς ὥστε διαναυμαχεῖν (i. e. ὅτε ἔδοξεν αὐτοῖς) Thuc.; so, δεδογμένον αὐτοῖς Thuc. to be thought or reputed so and so, ἄξιοι δοκοῦντες Thuc.; οἱ δοκοῦντες εἶναί τι men who are held to be something, men of repute, Plat.; so οἱ δοκοῦντες alone, Eur.; τὰ δοκοῦντα, opp. to τὰ μηδὲν ὄντα, Eur.; also in Pass., οἱ δεδογμένοι ἀνδροφόνοι those who have been found guilty of homicide, Dem.