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ἀέξω , poet. form of αὔξω （αὐξάνω), once in Hdt., twice in Trag. (lyr.); in early writers only in pres. and unaugm. impf.: in later Poets fut.
A.“ἀεξήσω” Nonn.D.12.24, aor. ἠέξησα ib.8.104, IG4.787 (Troezen, iv A. D.): fut. Med. “ἀεξήσομαι” A.R.3.837: aor. Pass. “ἀεξήθην” AP9.631 (Agath.): plpf. ηέξητο （ἀν-) Nonn.D.4.427: (ἀϝέξω, cf. Lat. augeo, Skt. vak[snull ]áyati, etc.):—increase, foster. “ἀνδρὶ δὲ κεκμηῶτι μένος μέγα οἶνος ἀέξει” Il.6.261; “θυμὸν ἀ.” Il.17.226; πένθος ἀ. cherish woe, Od. 17.489; υἱὸν ἀ. rear him to man's estate, 13.360; ἔργον ἀέξουσι . . θεοί they bless the work, 15.372.
2. exalt, glorify, “αὐτούς τ᾽ ἀέξοι καὶ πόλιν” Pi.O.8.88; “τὸ πλῆθος ἀ.” Hdt.3.80; spread, diffuse, “[ἀγγελίαν] μῦθος ἀέξει” S.Aj.226.
3. “ἀ. βούταν φόνον” E.Hipp. 537.
II. Pass., increase, grow, Τηλέμαχος δὲ νέον μὲν ἀέξετο was waxing tall, Od.22.426; “καλὰ μὲν ἠέξευ” Call.Jov.55; οὐ . . ποτ᾽ ἀέξετο κῦμά γ᾽ ἐν αὐτῷ no wave rose high thereon, Od.10.93; χόλος . . ἀνδρῶν ἐν στήθεσσιν ἠΰτε καπνός ἀ. rises high, Il.18.110; τόδε ἔργον ἀ. it prospers, Od.14.66; ἀέξετο ἱερὸν ἦμαρ was getting on to noon, Il.8.66; “μηνὸς -ομένοιο” Hes.Op.773; “μῆτις ἀ.” Emp.106; “κέρδος ἀ.” A.Ch.825 (cod. M), cf. Supp.856 (prob.).
III. intr., = Pass., Q.S.1.116.
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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