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ἀνα-σείω , poet. ἀνασσείω , Ep. impf.
A.“ἀνασσείασκε” h.Ap.403:— shake back, “ἀνασείοντά τε κόμας” E.Ba.240; swing to and fro, brandish, “αἰγίδα” Hes.Sc.344; ἀ. τὰς χεῖρας wave the hands, Th.4.38; “ἀ. φοινικίδας” Lys.6.51.
2. brandish at one, threaten with, “εἰσαγγελίαν” D.25.47; “βοὴν” Ar.Ach.347 (παρὰ προσδοκίαν).
3. shake out, “ὑδρίαν” IG2.104a36 (iv B. C.); πάντα κάλων shake out every reef, Ph. 1.327, al.; “ἀ. τὰ ἱστία” Philostr.VA6.12, cf. VS2.32; “πάσας τὰς ἡνίας” Poll.1.214; “τὴν χλαμύδα” Philostr.Im.1.6.
II. stir up, “τὰ πλήθη” Phld.Rh.2.290 S., cf. D.H.8.81, D.S.13.91, Ev.Marc.15.11, Ev.Luc. 23.5:—Pass., to be incited, encouraged, c. inf., PTeb.28.20 (ii 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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 47
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.91
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 240
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 344
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 403
    • Lysias, Against Andocides, 51
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.38
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 347
    • New Testament, Luke, 23.5
    • New Testament, Mark, 15.11
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 8.81
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.12
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.32
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1.6
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