Ἀποσεμνύνει

[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] honours.¹
But [sc. also attested is the middle voice, future] a)posemnunei=tai ["will put on airs"] [meaning he/she/it] Is quietly mad, has delusions of grandeur. For on account of his dignity, Aeschylus was silent when entering the theatres; and at the beginnings of his plays he used to have impressive effects. And [so] Aristophanes in Frogs [says]: "first he will put on airs, just as he used to have impressive effects in his tragedies."²