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ἔπαρσις , εως, ἡ, (ἐπαίρω)
A.rising, swelling, “κοιλίης” Hp. Coac.85; “τῶν μαστῶν” Arist.HA581a27; ἐ. ἰονθώδεις eruptions accompanying the sprouting of the beard, Thphr.Sud.16.
2. lifting up, “χειρῶν” LXX Ps.140(141).2.
3. devastation, ib.La.3.47; in concrete, heap of ruins, ib.4 Ki.19.25 (pl.).
4. raising, erection(?), “τοῦ θυρέτρου” IG 11(2).287 A116, B153 (Delos, iii B. C.).
b. “αἰδοίων” Arist.HA572b2.
5. elevation, projection, of a machine, HeroAut.28.2.
II. elation, “ψυχῆς” Zeno Stoic.1.51 (pl.), cf. Chrysipp.ib.3.116; ἡδονή, = ἄλογος ἔ. Stoic.3.95, al., Andronic. Rhod. p.570M., cf. LXXZa.12.7.
2. elevation of style, τοῦ λόγου Thom.Mag.p.175R.
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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