δοκέω
I. = "videor mihi, to think, suppose, imagine, expect", c. acc. et inf., δοκέω νικησέμεν Il.; οὔ σε δοκέω πείθεσθαι Hdt.; τεκεῖν δράκοντ᾽ ἔδοξεν "she thought" a serpent bare young ones, Aesch.; ἔδοξα ἰδεῖν, Lat. visus sum videre, methought I saw, Eur.; ἀείδειν δοκῶ "I think" to sing, Aesch.
2. absol. "to have or form an opinion", περί τινος Hdt.; in parenthetic phrases, ὡς δοκῶ Trag.; πῶς δοκεῖς; how "think you"? Eur.
3. δοκῶ μοι in attic, just like δοκεῖ μοι, as Lat. videor mihi for "videtur mihi, I seem to myself, methinks", c. inf., Hdt., etc.; also, "I am determined, resolved", c. inf., Ar.
4. c. inf., also, "to seem or pretend" to be doing, Lat. simulo, or with a negat. "to seem or pretend" not to be doing, Lat. dissimulo; ἤκουσά του λέγοντος, οὐ δοκῶν κλύειν Eur.
II. = "videor, to seem" to one, δοκέεις δέ μοι οὐκ ἀπινύσσειν Od., etc.
2. absol. "to seem, as opp. to reality", οὐ δοκεῖν, ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει Aesch.
3. "to seem good", Lat. placere, εἰ δοκεῖ σοι ταῦτα id=Aesch.
4. impers., δοκεῖ μοι much in the same sense as δοκῶ μοι (supr. I. 3), "it seems to me, meseems, methinks", ὥς μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι ἄριστα Il., etc.:—in decrees and the like, ἔδοξε τῆι βουλῆι, "placuit senatui", Ar., Thuc., etc.; τὸ δόξαν "the decree", Hdt.; τὰ δόξαντα Soph.; παρὰ τὸ δοκοῦν ἡμῖν Thuc.:—so in Pass., δέδοκται, Lat. visum est, Hdt., Trag., etc.
b. acc. absol. δόξαν, "when it was decreed or resolved", δόξαν αὐτοῖς ὥστε διαναυμαχεῖν (i. e. ὅτε ἔδοξεν αὐτοῖς) Thuc.; so, δεδογμένον αὐτοῖς id=Thuc.
5. "to be thought or reputed" so and so, ἄξιοι δοκοῦντες id=Thuc.; οἱ δοκοῦντες εἶναί τι "men who are held" to be something, men "of repute", Plat.; so οἱ δοκοῦντες alone, Eur.; τὰ δοκοῦντα, opp. to τὰ μηδὲν ὄντα, id=Eur.; also in Pass., οἱ δεδογμένοι ἀνδροφόνοι "those who have been found guilty" of homicide, Dem.