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ἄνοδος (B), ἡ,
A.way up, e.g. to the Acropolis at Athens, Hdt.8.53; “τὴν ἄ. οἰκοδομήσασα” CIG1948 (incert. loc.): metaph., “ἡ εἰς τὸν νοητὸν τόπον τῆς ψυχῆς ἄ.” Pl.R.517b, cf. Phld.D.1.6.
b. journey inland, esp. into Central Asia, like ἀνάβασις, τριῶν μηνῶν ἄ. Hdt. 5.50; ἄ. παρὰ βασιλέα ib.51, cf. X.An.2.1.1.
2. rising, “τοῦ ὑγροῦ” Arist.Mete.355a6; rising of a star, “κατηλυσίη τ᾽ ἄνοδός τε” Arat.536; slope of a hill, Plb.5.24.4.
II. the first (or second) day of the Thesmophoria, Alciphr.3.39, cf. Sch.Ar.Th.86, Hsch.
III. ascent of the soul to its original source, Hierocl.in CA24p.471M.
IV. Math., increasing progression, Theol.Ar.58.
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 (6):
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 86
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.53
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.50
    • Plato, Republic, 517b
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 2.1.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.24.4
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