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ἐπιτρέφω , fut.
A.“-θρέψω” Hdt.8.142 : pf. “-τέτροφα” AP7.536 (Alc.):— Pass. (v. infr. II, III) : —grow, in act. sense, “κόμην” J.AJ14.9.4.
2. rear upon, ἐπιτέτροφε τύμβῳ βότρυν APl.c.
3. generally, support, maintain, Hdt.8.142,144 ; “κακὸν τῇ πόλει” D.H.10.6 ; τοῦ ὀμβρίου ὕδατος -ομένου ἀεὶ νέου a fresh supply being always maintained, Hp. Aër.7.
II. Med., cause to grow upon, “λασίην βροτοῖς ἐπεθρέψατο χαίτην” Man.3.291:—Pass., form upon, “-όμενος τοῖς σώμασι ῥύπος” Gal.10.176 ; “ὅταν σὰρξ ἐπιτραφῇ” Id.18(2).780.
III. Pass., grow up after, as posterity, “ἐκ τουτέων σφι ἐπετράφη νεότης” Hdt.4.3 ; “οἱ ὕστερον ἐπιτραφέντες βασιλέες” Id.2.121. α᾽: generally, grow up as a rival or successor, Id.1.123, D.H.7.9 codd.
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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