ἐντέλλω

A. enjoin, command, Act. only in Pi. O. 7.40, S. Fr. 269:— mostly in Med., τινί τι Hdt. 1.47, etc.; in a will, φίλοις ταῦτα ἐντέλλομαι Diog.Oen. 66: c. dat. pers. et inf., Hdt. 1.53, Pl. R. 393e, etc.; ἐντείλασθαι ἀπὸ γλώσσης command by word of mouth, Hdt. 1.123: so in pf., ἐντέταλται LXX 3 Ki. 13.17; ἐντεταλμένοι εἴησαν Plb. 18.2.1, cf. Hdn. 1.9.9:—Pass., τὰ ἐντεταλμένα commands, Hdt. 1.60,5.73, S. Fr. 462, X. Cyr. 5.5.3.

II. invest with legal powers, authorize to act, ἐ. σοι καὶ ἐπιτρέπω PLips. 38.5 (iv A. D.), cf. PMasp. 124.6 (vi A. D.).