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Etym. Root ΤΑΓ
I. "to arrange, put in order", Hdt., etc.: esp. "to draw up in order of battle, to form, array, marshal", both of troops and ships, Hdt., Thuc., etc.:—Pass. "to be drawn up", Hdt.; ἐπὶ τεττάρων ταχθῆναι in four lines, Xen.; κατὰ μίαν τεταγμένοι in single column, Thuc.: absol., τεταγμένοι "in rank and file", opp. to ἄτακτοι, id=Thuc., etc.:—Mid. "to fall in, form in order" of battle, id=Thuc.
2. "to post, station", Hdt., Aesch., etc.:—Pass., Hdt., etc.; ἐς τὸ πεζόν or ἐς π. τετάχθαι or ταχθῆναι to serve among the infantry, id=Hdt.; c. acc. cogn., τάξιν τινὰ ταχθῆναι Plat.
II. "to appoint" to any service, military or civil, τ. τινὰ ἐπί τινος one "over" a thing, to a service or task, Dem., etc.; ἐπί τινι Aesch., etc.; ἐπί τι Ar., etc.; πρός τι Xen.:—Pass., τετάχθαι ἐπί τινι "to be appointed to" a service, Hdt., etc.; ἐπί τι Ar.
2. c. acc. et inf. "to appoint one to do" a thing, Xen.; and in Pass. "to be appointed" to do Aesch., etc.:—also (sine inf.), οἱ τεταγμένοι βραβεῖς Soph.; πρέσβεις ταχθέντες Dem.
3. c. acc. et inf. also, "to order" one to do a thing, Hdt., Soph., etc.; also, τ. τινὶ ποιεῖν τι Hdt., etc.:—Pass., ἐτάχθην or τέταγμαι ποιεῖν τι id=Hdt.:—also impers., ἴωμεν, ἵν᾽ ἡμῖν τέτακται (sc. ἰέναι) Soph.; οἷς ἐτέτακτο βοηθεῖν Thuc.
4. "to assign to" a class, τ. εἰς τάξιν τινά Xen.; τ. ἑαυτόν τινων to act as one of a "set", Dem.:—Pass., πρὸς τὴν ξυμμαχίαν ταχθῆναι "to join" it, Thuc.
III. c. acc. rei, "to place in a certain order", χωρὶς τ. τι Hdt.; πρῶτον τ. τι Xen.
2. "to appoint, ordain, order, prescribe", Soph., Plat.:—Pass., τὸ ταχθέν Soph.; τὰ τεταγμένα Xen.
3. of taxes or payments, "to appoint or fix" a "certain" payment, τ. τινὶ φόρον Aeschin., etc.; with an inf. added, χρήματα τάξαντες φέρειν Thuc.; τάσσειν ἀργυρίου "to fix" the price, id=Thuc.:—Pass., τὸ ταχθὲν τίμημα Plat.:—Mid. "to take a payment on oneself", i. e. "agree to pay" it, φόρον τάξασθαι Hdt.; χρήματα ἀποδοῦναι ταξάμενοι Thuc.
4. in Mid., also, generally, "to agree upon, settle", Plat.
5. "to impose" punishments, τ. δίκην Ar.; τιμωρίαν Dem.:—so in Mid., Hdt.
6. in perf. part. pass. "fixed, prescribed", ὁ τεταγμένος χρόνος id=Hdt., etc.; ἡ τετ. ἡμέρα, ἔτος Xen., etc.; ἡ τετ. χώρα id=Xen.