ε2048Ἐπελπίζων
causing to hope
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning someone who is] leading [someone else] to hopes. "Partly by causing them to hope with promises, partly by dispersing small amounts of profit to them, but by pillaging and confiscating…
Ἐπελπίζων· αἰτιατικῇ. εἰς ἐλπίδας ἄγων. τὰ μὲν αὐτοὺς ἐπελπίζων ὑποσχέσεσι, τὰ δὲ ὑποσπείρων αὐτοῖς ὀλίγα κέρδη, τοὺς δὲ ἐν ἀξιώσει τε καὶ δυνάμει περισυλῶν καὶ δημεύων.