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ἀνα-δείκνυ_μι , also ἀνα-ύω Plu.2.417e: lon. aor.
A.“-έδεξα” Hdt. (v. infr.): pf. “-δέδειχα” Plb.21.21.3: (v. δείκνυμι):—lift up and show, exhibit, display, πύλας ἀναδεικνύναι display by opening gates, i.e. throw wide the gates, S.El.1458; “μυστοδόκος δόμος ἀναδείκνυται” Ar.Nu.304; ἀναδέξαι ἀσπίδα hold up shield as signal, Hdt.6.115, 121 sq.; ἀνέδεξε σημήιον τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀνάγεσθαι made signal for them to put to sea, Id.7.128; [Μίλητος] Θαλῆν ἀ., on a statue, Epigr. ap. D.L.1.34.
II. notify, esp. proclaim any one as elected to office, “αὑτὸν ἀναδεδειχὼς βασιλέα” Plb.4.48.3; ἀ. τινὰ μέγιστον make him the greatest man, 22.4.3; “ἀνέδειξεν ἑτέρους ἑβδομήκοντα” Ev.Luc.10.1:—Pass., “ἀναδεδεῖχθαι τὸ ἱερὸν ἄσυλον” SIG630.23 (Delph., ii B. C.).
2. dedicate, “τῷ Διὶ ταῦρον” SIG589.6 (Magn. Mae., ii B. C.); “τὴν Πιερίδα ταῖς θεαῖς” Str.9.2.25; “θέατρον” Plu. Pomp.52; “ἱερά” AP9.340.
3. ἀ. πόλεμον declare war, SIG742.12 (Ephesus, i B. C.).
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.128
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.115
    • Sophocles, Electra, 1458
    • Polybius, Histories, 21.21.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 22.4.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.48.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.2.25
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 304
    • New Testament, Luke, 10.1
    • Plutarch, Pompey, 52
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