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ἀναπτερ-όω , prop.
A.raise its feathers, of a bird: hence metaph., raise, set up, “ὀρθίους ἐθείρας ἀνεπτέρωκα” E.Hel.633.
2. metaph., set on the wing, put on the tiptoe of expectation, excite, “ἀναπτερώσας αὐτὴν οἴχεαι” Hdt.2.115, cf. Pl.Phdr.255c; “μῶν τι . . ἄγγελμ᾽ ἀνεπτέρωκε Δαναϊδῶν πόλιν;” E.Or.876; “φόβος μ᾽ ἀναπτεροῖ” Id.Supp.89, cf. S.Fr.355; “ἀ. τινὰ χρηστοῖς λόγοις” Ar.Av.1449, cf. Men.Epit.510: —Pass., to be in a state of eager expectation, “ἀνεπτερώθης” A.Ch.228; “ἀ. τὴν ψυχήν” Cratin.384; “ἀνεπτέρωμαι κλύων” Ar.Av.434; “ἀνεπτερωμένων τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων” X.HG3.4.2; “ἀνεπτερωμένος θεᾶσθαι” Id.Smp. 9.5; ἀναπτερωθεὶς ὑπό τινων ὡς . . being irritated by the remark of some, that . . , Id.HG3.1.14.
II. furnish with new wings, Ar. Lys.669:—Pass., get new wings, Pl.Phdr.249d.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 228
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1449
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 434
    • Euripides, Helen, 633
    • Euripides, Orestes, 876
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 89
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.115
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 249d
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 255c
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.1.14
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.4.2
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 9.5
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 355
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 669
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