A.“πεπιστεύκειν” Act.Ap.14.23 : (πίστις) :—trust, put faith in, rely on a person, thing, or statement, τ ι ν ι Hdt.1.24 ; “τ ῷ λόγῳ” Id.2.118, cf. S.El.886, etc. ; “π . θ ε ῶν θεσφάτοισι” A.Pers.800 ; “τ ῇ τύχῃ” Th.5.112 ; “σφίσιν α ὐτ ο ῖς” Id.3.5; “τ α ῖς ἀληθείαις” D.44.3 ; [σημείοις] Antipho 5.81 ; “π . τ ι ν ὶ περί τινος” Arist. EN1157a21 ; “ὑπ ὲρ τ ῶν ὅλ ω ν ” Plb.2.43.2 : with neut. Adj. or Pron., λόγοις ἐμ ο ῖσ ι πίστευσον τάδε believe my words herein, E.Hel.710; “τ ο ῦτ ᾽ . . Α ἰγυπτίοις πιστεῦσ α ι δ ε ῖ” Arist.Mete.343b10 ; “μ ὴ πάντα π ε ι ρ ῶ π ᾶσ ι πιστεύειν” Men.Mon.335 : later with Preps., π . ἐν τ ῷ Θ ε ῷ, ἐν τ ῷ ε ὐαγγελίῳ, LXXPs.77(78).22, Ev.Marc.1.15 ; “π . ε ἰς τ ὸν Θεόν” Ev.Jo.14.1, al.; ε ἰς τ ὸ ὄνομά τινος ib.1.12; “π . ἐπ ὶ τ ὸν Κύριον” Act.Ap.9.42 : abs., believe, “π ε ρ ὶ μ ὲν τούτου . . ο ὔτ ε ἀπιστέω ο ὔτ ε ὦν π . τ ι λίην” Hdt.4.96; χαλεπὰ π α ν τ ὶ ἑξ ῆς τεκμηρίῳ πιστεῦσ α ι although it is hard to believe every single bit of evidence about them, Th.1.20 : c. acc. cogn., π . δόξαν entertain a confident opinion, Id.5.105 :—Pass., to be trusted or believed, “ἄνδρες ἄξιοι πιστεύεσθαι” Pl.La.181b, cf.Ep.309a, X.Cyr.4.2.8; πιστευθῆν α ι ὑπό τινος enjoy his confidence, ib.6.1.39, cf. An.7.6.33 ; “π . παρά τ ι ν ι ” D.23.4, 58.44 ; “πρός τινας” Id.20.25 ; ὡς πιστευθησόμενος as if he would be believed, Id.27.54, cf. 36.43 ; “π . ὡς δημοτικὸς ὤν ” Arist.Pol. 1305a28 ; πιστεύονται [ο ἱ λόγοι] Id.EN1172b6 ; ἐπιστεύοντο ἃ ἔλεγον they were believed in what they said, D.32.4 ; πρόγνωσιν ἐπεπίστευντο were believed to possess foreknowledge, J.AJ17.2.4.
3. c. inf., believe that, feel confident that a thing is, will be, has been, E.HF146; “ἀληθῆ ε ἶν α ι ” Pl.Grg.524a, cf. R. 450d; “ὃς ἂν γνώμῃ πιστεύῃ τ ῶν ἐναντίων π ρ ο ὔχ ε ι ν ” Th.2.62 ; “προέσθαι τ ὴν π ρ ο ῖκ ᾽ ο ὐκ ἐπίστευσεν” D.30.7 ; π . ὡς . . , ὅτ ι . . , X.Hier.1.37, Arist. Ph.254a3, al. : the inf. is sts. omitted, τ ὰ μ ὲν ο ὐ πιστεύουσιν ο ἱ νέοι (sc. ε ἶν α ι or γεγονέναι) Id.EN1142a19, cf. APr.68b13, GA716a7 :—Pass., “π α ρ ὰ Δ ι ὸς . . ο ἱ νόμοι πεπιστευμένοι ἦσ α ν γεγονέναι” Pl.Lg.636d; πιστευθεὶς ἀληθεύσειν believed sure to . . , X.An.7.7.25 ; “ὁ ἥλιος . . πεπίστευται ε ἶν α ι μείζων τ ῆς ο ἰκουμένης” Arist. de An.428b4; “π ρ ῶτ ο ι νόμοις ἐγγράπτοις χρήσασθαι πεπιστευμένοι” Str.6.1.8 : without inf., “πιστευθείσης ε ἱμαρμένης α ἴρεται π ᾶσ α νουθεσία” Diog.Oen.33, cf. 23.
4. c. dat. et inf., τ ο ῖσ ι ἐπίστευε σ ι γ ᾶν to whom he trusted that they would keep silence, Hdt.8.110, cf. X.Cyr.3.3.55, Lys.19.54.
5. have faith, Act.Ap.2.44, 19.18, etc.
II. π . τινί τ ι entrust something to another, τ ι ν ὶ ἡγεμονίαν, χρήματα, X.Mem.4.4.17, Smp.8.36; “τ ὰν ὠν ὰν τ ῷ θ ε ῷ” GDI1684, al. (Delph.); “γυναικὶ μ ὴ πίστευε τ ὸν . . βίον” Men.Mon.86; also “π ε ρ ὶ τ ῶν ἐμ ῶν τούτῳ ἀξ ι ῶ πιστεύειν ὑμ ᾶς” Lys.30.7:—Med., have entrusted to one, “ἀρχήν” Berichte der russ. Akad. fuür Gesch. der materiellen Kultur 4.82 (Olbia, ii/iii A.D.):—Pass., πιστεύεσθαί τ ι to be entrusted with a thing, have it committed to one, παρά or ὑπό τινος, Plb.3.69.1, Phylarch.24J., cf. Vett. Val.65.3: c. inf., “πιστευθέντας τ ο ῖς ἐχθροῖς διαφθείρειν” Arist.Pol.1287a39 (nisi leg.πεισθέντας): c. gen., “πιστευθεὶς τ ῆς Κύπρου” Plb.18.55.6, cf. 6.56.13, D.S.12.15, etc.
