φαρμακεύω

A. administer a drug or medicine, Pl. R. 459c, Ti. 89d.

2. use enchantments, practise sorcery, φαρμακεύσαντες ταῦτα ἐς τὸν ποταμόν having used this charm upon the river, Hdt. 7.114.

II. c. acc. pers., purge, τινα Hp. Acut.(Sp.) 55; φ. ἄνω κούφῳ φαρμάκῳ purge upwards, i. e. by an emetic, Id. Art. 67, cf. Aph. 4.12:—Pass., to be purged, ib.2.37, Men. Her.Fr. 5; to be physicked, Arist. Top. 111a2.

2. drug a person, give him a poisonous or stupefying drug, E. Andr. 355, SIG 1181.4 (Rhenea, ii B. C.); φ. τινὰ ἐπὶ βλάβῃ μὴ θανασίμῳ Pl. Lg. 933d:—Pass., οὐ πεφαρμάκευσαι ἀλλὰ μεμάγευσαι Astramps. Orac. 25.4 (ii A. D.), cf. POxy. 472.1 (ii A. D.).

3. season in cookery, [ἰχθὺν] πεφαρμακευμένον τυροῖσι Philem. 79.5.

4. metaph., πειθοῖ κακῇ τὴν ψυχὴν φ. Gorg. Fr. 11 D.