ἀποδίδωμι
I. "to give up or back, restore, return", τί τινι Hom., attic: esp. "to render what is due, to pay", as debts, penalties, submission, Il.; ἀπ. τινὶ λώβην "to give" him "back" his insult, i. e. "make atonement for" it, id=Il.; ἀπ. ἀμοιβήν τινι Theogn., etc.
2. "to return, render, yield", of land, ἐπὶ διηκόσια ἀποδοῦναι (sc. καρπόν) "to yield fruit" two hundred-fold, Hdt.
3. c. inf. "to suffer or allow" a person to do a thing, ἀπ. τισὶ αὐτονομεῖσθαι Thuc., etc.:—so in Pass., ὁ λόγος ἀπεδόθη αὐτοῖς right of speech "was allowed" them, Aeschin.
4. "to render" so and so, ἀπ. τὴν τέρψιν βεβαιοτέραν Isocr.
5. "to deliver over, give up", as a slave, Eur.; ἀπ. ἐπιστολήν "to deliver" a letter, Thuc.
6. λόγον ἀπ. "to render or give in" an account, Lat. rationes referre, Dem.: "to give an account of" a thing, Eur.
7. ἀπ. ὅρκον, v. ὅρκος.
II. intr. "to increase", much like ἐπιδίδωμι III, ἢν ἡ χώρη ἐπιδιδῶι ἐς ὕψος καὶ ἀποδιδῶι ἐς αὔξησιν Hdt.;—unless here it means the contrary, if the land "increase" in height and "decrease" in productiveness.
III. Mid. "to give away of one's own will, to sell", Hdt., attic; ἀπ. τι ἐς Ἑλλάδα "to take" to Greece "and sell" it "there", Hdt.; ἀπ. τοῦ εὑρίσκοντος "to sell for" what it will fetch, Aeschin.: at Athens, "to farm out" the public taxes, Dem.