Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀναβολ-ή

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1. striking up, prelude on the lyre preliminary to singing, ὁπόταν προοιμίων ἀμβολὰς τεύχῃς ἐλελιζομένη, addressed to the lyre, Pi.P.1.4; esp. of dithyramb, Eup.5D.: hence, rambling dithyrambic ode, Ar.Av.1385, cf. Pax830, Arist.Rh.1409b25; cf. “ἀναβάλλω” B. I.

2. putting off, delaying, “οὐκέτι ἐς ἀναβολὰς ἐποιεῦντο τὴν ἀποχώρησιν” Hdt.8.21; “ὅ τι μέλλετε . . μὴ ἐς ἀ. πράσσετε” Th.7.15; οὐκ ἐς ἀμβολάς without delay, E.Heracl.270; “ἐς μηδεμίαν ἀ.” PAmh. 2.34i.5; ἐν τα<*>῀ς ἀ<*> τ<*> ἔνεστ ἄ<*> E.HF93; <*>ἐπὶ ἀ<*>αβαλῇ πρᾶς<*>, ὠνὴν ποιεῖσθαι sell, buy on credit, Pl.Lg.915e; “ἀναβολήν τινοσποιεῖσθαι” Th.2.42; “ποιεῖν” Pl.Smp.201d; “εἰς τὸ γῆρας ἀναβολὰς ποιεῖν” Men. 235.8; “δακρύοις . . ἐμποιεῖν ἀ. τῷ πάθει” Id.599; ἀναβολὰν λαβόντες ἔτη “τρία” IG9(2).205.22 (Thess.).

b. deferred payment, “εὐχρηστήσας σῖτον ἐπ᾽ ἀναβολῇ Ἀρχ.Ἐφ.” 1912.60 (Gonni).

3. “ἀ. δίκης ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα” reference, appeal, Str.13.1.55.

4. lifting, hence, removal, of tumours, Antyll. ap. Orib.45.2.6.

III. intr., going up, ascent, way up, “ἀ. τῶν Ἄλπεων” Plb.3.39.9, etc.; “τὴν ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι” 50.3.

2. bubbling up, “πομφολύγων” Arist.Pr.936b1, Thphr.Ign.16; of the Nile, sources, “ἀμβολαί” CIG4924（Philae).

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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- Aristophanes, Birds, 1385
- Aristophanes, Peace, 830
- Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.95
- Euripides, Heracles, 93
- Euripides, Heraclidae, 270
- Herodotus, Histories, 8.21
- Plato, Laws, 915e
- Plato, Symposium, 201d
- Plato, Protagoras, 342c
- Strabo, Geography, 13.1.55
- Thucydides, Histories, 2.42
- Thucydides, Histories, 7.15
- Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.2.5
- Polybius, Histories, 3.39.9
- Old Testament, 2 Esdras, 5.13
- Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, 6

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