διδάσκω
I. "to teach" (i. e. "instruct") a person, or "teach" a thing, Hom., etc.: c. dupl. acc., σε.. ἱπποσύνας ἐδίδαξαν "they taught" thee riding, Il.; "to teach" one a thing, Hom., etc.; also, δ. τινὰ περί τινος Ar.:—c. acc. pers. et inf. "to teach" one to be so and so, Od.; c. inf. only, δίδαξε βάλλειν "taught" him "how" to shoot, Il.;—also with inf. omitted, διδάσκειν τινὰ ἱππέα [sc. εἶναι] "to train" one "as" a horseman, Plat.; so, δ. τινὰ σοφόν, κακόν Eur.:— Mid. "to teach oneself, learn", Soph.: but the usual sense of the Mid. is "to have" another "taught", of a father, "to have" his son "taught", Plat., etc.:—Pass. "to be taught, to learn", c. gen., διδασκόμενος πολέμοιο "trained in war", Il.; also c. acc., id=Il., etc.; c. inf., δεδιδαγμένος εἶναι Hdt.; διδάσκεται λέγειν ἀκοῦσαί θ᾽ Eur.
II. διδάσκειν is used of dramatic Poets, who originally "taught the actors" their parts, Hdt., attic