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ἀνατολή , poet. ἀντ- , (ἀνατέλλω)
A.rising above the horizon, of any heavenly body, e.g. the sun, freq. in pl., “ἀντολαὶ ἠελίοιο” Od.12.4, E.Ph.504:—also in sg., “ἀπ᾽ ἀνατολᾶς ἁλίου ἄχρι δύσεως” IG4.606; “δύσεώς τε καὶ ἀνατολῆς ἡλίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἄστρων” Pl.Plt.269a, cf. Lg.807e; dist. from ἐπιτολή (q.v.), Gem.13.3.
2. = ἐπιτολή, A. Pr.457, Ag.7; “περὶ Ὠρίωνος ἀνατολήν” Arist.Mete.361b23; “ἀπὸ Πλειάδος ἀ.” Id.HA599b11.
3. the quarter of sunrise, east, opp. δύσις, freq. in pl., “ἀπὸ ἡλίου ἀνατολέων” Hdt.4.8; “ἡλίου πρὸς ἀντολάς” A.Pr.707; without “ἡλίου, πρὸς ἀνατολάς” Thphr.HP9.15.2, Mon.Anc.Gr.14.12; “πρὸς τὰς ἀ.” Plb.2.14.4; “ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν” LXX Nu.23.7, Ev.Matt.2.1, etc.
b. the ascendant, i.e. the point where the eastern horizon cuts the zodiac, Ptol.Tetr.20.
c. phase of new moon when 150 distant from sun, Cat.Cod.Astr.8(4).204, Paul.Al.G.3.
4. in pl., sources of a river, Plb.2.17.4.
II. growing, of the teeth, Arist. HA501b28; of the white at the root of the nails, Poll.2.146: pl., “ἀγρὸς ἀνατολὰς καὶ βλάστας ἔχει” Ph.1.68, cf. LXXJe.23.5, al.
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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