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ἀνακτάομαι , fut. -ήσομαι: pf.
A.“ἀνέκτημαι” S.Fr.358:—regain for oneself, recover, τυραννίδα, ἀρχὴν ἀ. ὀπίσω, Hdt.1.61, 3.73; “Ἄργος ἐς ἑωυτοὺς ἀ. ὀπίσω” 6.83; “δῶμα πατρός” A.Ch.237; “ἀ. ταῖς πόλεσι τὴν ἐλευθερίαν” D.S.16.14; repair, retrieve, “ἐλαττώσεις” Plb.10.33.4.
2. refresh, revive, σώματα, ψυχάς, Id.3.60.7, 87.3; “τοὺς κεκμηκότας ὑπὸ τραυμάτων” D.H.2.42; “γλήχων . . λειποθυμοῦντας -κτᾶται” Dsc.3.31; “ἀ. ἑαυτόν” J.AJ9.6.4, Arr.Epict.3.25.4, etc.
3. reinstate, “τοὺς ἐπταικότας” D.C.44.47; restore, “ναούς” Id.53.2; “θυσίας” IG2.628.
II. c. acc. pers., win a person over, gain his favour or friendship, “τὸν θεόν” Hdt.1.50, X.Cyr.1.3.9, Men.Pk.123, etc.; “παμπόλλους φίλους” X.Cyr.2.2.10. (Act. dub., v. sub ἀνακτίζω.）
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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    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 237
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 16.14
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.61
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.73
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.50
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.83
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 9.6.4
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.3.9
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    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 358
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.33.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.60.7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.42
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 44.47
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 53.2
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