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ἀναπλέω , Ion. ἀνα-πλώω , Ep. ἀνα-πλείω (q.v.),
A.sail upwards, go up-stream, στεινωπὸν ἀνεπλέομεν we sailed up the strait, Od.12.234, cf. Hdt.2.97, 4.89; sail up the Hellespont, X.HG4.8.36:—Pass., “ἀναπλεῖται ἐκ θαλάττης ὁ Πάδος” Plb.2.16.10.
2. put out to sea, “ἐς Τροίην νήεσσιν ἀναπλεύσεσθαι” Il.11.22, cf. And.1.76, Decr. ap. D.18.184; “ἀ. ἐπὶ τρόπαιον” IG2.471.28.
3. float up, rise to the surface, “ναυάγιον ἀ.” Arist.Pr.932a1.
4. overflow, Ael.NA10.19.
II. sail back, Hdt.1.78; of fish, swim back, Id.2.93.
2. metaph. of food, return from the stomach, for rumination, Ael.NA2.54.
III. become loose, split off, of bone-splinters, Hp.Fract.24; ὀδόντες ἀναπλέουσι the teeth fall out, Id.Epid.4.19, cf. ἀναπλείω; of chalk-stones, come away, Orib.Syn.9.58.2.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 184
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.93
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.89
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.78
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.97
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.22
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.234
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.8.36
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.16.10
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 24
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 10.19
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 2.54
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