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ἀναρρίπτω

I.to throw up, ἀν. ἅλα πηδῶι to throw up the sea with the oar, i. e. row with might and main, Od.; also without πηδῶι, οἱ δ᾽ ἅλα πάντες ἀνέρριψαν id=Od.
II.ἀν. κίνδυνον, a phrase from the game of dice, to run the hazard of a thing, run a risk, Hdt., Thuc.; περί or ὑπέρ τινος Plut.;— also without κίνδυνον, ἐς ἅπαν τὸ ὑπάρχον ἀναρρίπτειν to throw for one's all, stake one's all, Thuc.; with a second acc. ἀν. μάχην to hazard a battle, Plut.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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