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ἀρωγός [α^], όν, （ἀρήγω)
A.aiding, succouring, propitious, “τινί” Pi.O.2.49, A.Eu.289: abs., Id.Pr.997, S.OT206 (lyr.):—rare in Prose, beneficial, medically, Hp.Aër.10; “ἔλαιον . . ταῖς θριξὶ ἀ.” Pl.Prt.334b.
2. c. gen., serviceable, useful towards a thing, “ἀρωγὰ τῆς δίκης ὁρκώματα” A.Eu.486; γένος ναΐας ἀρωγὸν τέχνας serviceable in sea-craft, S.Aj. 357; δίψους ἀ. against thirst, Antiph.150; “πόνων” Luc.Trag.54: with Preps., “ἐπὶ ψευδέσσι” Il.4.235; “πρός τι” Th.7.62: and c. dat., “ῥίζας ἐχίεσσιν ἀ.” serviceable against, Nic. Th.636.
II. as Subst., helper, esp. in battle, “ὅσοι Δαναοῖσιν ἀρωγοί” Il.8.205, etc.; also, defender before a tribunal, advocate, ib.18.502; “ἀρωγοὺς ξυνδίκους θ᾽ ἥξω λαβών” A.Supp.726.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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