1. to shew fort, display, produce , (Herdotus Historicus) 2. to make known, declare , (Herdotus Historicus): to give evidence of a thing, (Herdotus Historicus) 3. to shew by reasoning, shew, represent as doing or being, with participle, (Herdotus Historicus); and with participle omitted, ἀπ. ἑωϋτὸν αἴτιον (i.e. ὄντα) (Herdotus Historicus); so, ἀπ. τινα ἐχθρόν (Demosthenes Orator) 4. with accusative et infinitive to represent that , (Plato Philosophus); so, ἀπ. ὡς . ., ὅτι . ., (Herdotus Historicus) 5. to give an account of , τὴν οὐσίαν (Demosthenes Orator): to pay in money to the treasury, (Demosthenes Orator) 6. to render or make so and so, (Aristophanes Comicus) 7. to appoint to an office, (Plato Philosophus) 8. Mid. to display something of one's own , (Aeschulus Tragicus) (Plato Philosophus): absolute to make a display of oneself, shew off , (Xenophon Historicus) 9. to produce evidence, (Herdotus Historicus) 10. ἀποφαίνεσθαι γνώμην to declare one's opinion, (Herdotus Historicus), attic:—; absolute to give an opinion , (Herdotus Historicus), attic. Hence 11. used like Act., (Plato Philosophus) (ML)