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ἀναλαμβάνω , fut. -λήψομαι: Ion. pf.inf.Pass. -λελάμφθαι or
A.“-λελάφθαι” Hp.Off.11, part. “-λελαμμένος” Id.Art.11:—take up, take into one's hands, “τὸ παιδίον” Hdt.1.111; τὰ τόξα, τὰ ὅπλα, etc., 3.78, 9.46; take on board ship, 1.166, Th.7.25, etc.; take up into heaven, in Pass., LXX 4 Ki.2.9, Act.Ap.1.11: and generally, take with one, esp. of troops, supplies, etc., Hdt.9.51, Th.5.64, 8.27, etc.; part. ἀναλαβών often = with, “ἄνδρας ἀναλαβὼν ἡγήσομαι” X.An.7.3.36, cf. Th.5.7.
b. suspend in a sling, Hp.Art.22.
c. metaph., take up, for the purpose of examining, Pl.Ap.22b, Men.87e, al.
2. receive, “φιλοφρόνως ἀ.” Id.Ep.329d, etc.; of women, ἀ. τ<*>`ν γονήν conceive, Plu.2.495e.
3. take upon oneself, assume, “τὴν προξενίαν” Th.6.89; “τὴν ἀρχήν” Inscr.Prien.123; κόσμον, of a king, OGI383.135; “ἐσθῆτα” Plu.Arist.21; πρόσωπον, σχῆμα, Luc.Nigr.11, Somn.13.
4. in Med., undertake, engage in, ἀναλαβέσθαι κ<*>´νδυνον Hdt.3.69:—also Act., ἀντὶ τῆς φιλίας τὸν πόλεμον ἀναλαβεῖν Philipp. ap. D.18.78.
5. take up, adopt, Arist.Fr.76:—Pass., Aeschin.1.52, cf. Epicur.Fr.172.
6. of money, confiscate, in Pass., OGI338.24 (Pergam.), PSI1.104.10 (late ii A.D.); “κλῆρος ἀνειλημμένος εἰς τὸ βασιλικόν” PTeb.61b74 (ii B. C.), etc., Plu.2.484a, D.L.7.181.
7. learn by rote, Arr.Epict. 2.16.5, Plu.Ages.20, Alex.Aphr. in Top.494.31.
8. include, “τῷ νόμῳ” OGI629 (Palmyra).
9. Medic., make up ingredients, “κηρῷ καὶ νάρδῳ” Aret.CA1.1, cf. 2.3（Pass.); so in Magic, ἀ. οἴνῳ καὶ μέλιτι, ὄξει, PMag.Par.1.1316, 2690.
10. raise, erect a wall, IG2.1054.9.
11. abs., lift up one's voice, LXX Nu.14.1.
II. get back, regain, recover, “τὴν ἀρχήν” Hdt.3.73, X.HG3.5.10; “ἀ. ἐπιστήμην” Pl.Men.85d; “οὐδ᾽ ἀφέντι λίθον δυνατὸν ἀναλαβεῖν” Arist.EN1114a18.
2. retrieve, make good, “τὴν αἰτίην” Hdt.7.231; “ἁμαρτίαν” S.Ph.1249, E.Ion426; “τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἀρετήν” X.Mem.3.5.14; “ταῦτα ἀ. καὶ μεταγιγνώσκειν” D. 21.109.
3. restore, repair, “τὴν προτέρην κακότητα” Hdt.8.109: abs., Id.5.121; “ἀ. τὴν πόλιν ἐκ τῆς πρόσθεν ἀθυμίας” X.HG6.5.21; ἀ. ἑαυτόν recover oneself, regain strength, Th.6.26, Pl.Com.10D., Men.Sam. 243; collect oneself, Isoc.5.22: abs., Pl.R.467b, D.18.163, Hp.Mul. 2.118.
4. take up again, resume, in narrative or argument, “τὸν λόγον” Hdt.5.62, Pl.R.544b, al.; “πολλάκις ἀ.” Id.Phd.95e; ἀναλαβεῖν διεξιόντα repeat in detail, Id.Euthd.275c; at Rome, ἀ. θυσίας, = instaurare sacra, Plu.Cor.25; “ἀ. τῇ μνήμῃ” recollect, Pl.Plt.294d; without τῇ μνήμῃ, Plu.Lyc.21; but ἀ. μνήμην recover a memory, Arist. Mem.451a22; πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἀ. run over in one's mind, Pl.Ti.26a.
5. receive back into a family, Luc.Abd.9, al.
III. pull up short, of a horse, X.Eq.3.5; check, “οἷόνπερ ἵππον τὸν λόγον ἀ.” Pl.Lg.701c; “τὴν ὁρμὴν τῆς νεώς” Plb.16.3.4; ἀ. τὰς κύνας call them back, X.Cyn.7.10.
IV. win over, Ar.Eq.682, Din.1.28, Plu.Brut.24, al.; “ἀ. τὸν ἀκροατήν” Arist.Rh.1354b32.
V. ἀγορὰν στοαῖς ἀνειλημμένην διτταῖς, perh. on a terrace supported by two colonnades, Dicaearch. 59.23; cf. “ἀνάλημμα” 11.
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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