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ἀναΐσσω [α^να_], Att. contr. ἀνᾴσσω , used also by Pi.:—
A.start up, “μὴ πρὶν ἀναΐξειαν Ἀρήϊοι υἷες Ἀχαιῶν” Il.4.114; ὅτε δὴ . . ἀναΐξειεν Ὀδυσσεύς whenever he rose to speak, 3.216; of a spring, gush forth, 22.148: so in later Poets, μυελὸς στέρνων ἐντὸς ἀνᾴσσων springing fresh within the breast, A.Ag.77 cj. Herm., cf. Pers.96 cj. Brunck; “ὀρθοὶ ἀνῇξαν πάντες” E.Hel.1600; βωμὸς ἀνᾴσσων an altar rising up, Pi.O.13.107.—Rare in Prose, “ἀναΐσσει νόσημα” Hp.Prog.19; ἀνᾴξας, of a hare, X.Cyn.6.17.
2. c. acc., ἀναΐξας . . ἅρμα καὶ ἵππους having leapt upon it, Il.24.440.
3. Act., cause to start up, “ἀνήϊξεν δὲ φέβεσθαι” Opp.C.1.107.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 77
    • Euripides, Helen, 1600
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.440
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.216
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.114
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.17
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.148
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 19
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