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ἀνατρέχω , fut.
A.“-δραμοῦμαι” Luc.Ind.4, poet. 3sg. “-δράμεται” AP9.575 (Phil.): aor. -έδραμον (v. infr.); aor. subj. Med. “ἀναδράμηται” Hp.Ep.19 (Hermes 53.69):—run back, “ὁ μὲν αὖθις ἀνέδραμε” Il.16.813, cf. 11.354; “ἀνά τ᾽ ἔδραμ᾽ ὀπίσσω” 5.599; return, of the sea, Plu.2.915a; “εἰς τὰς ἐξ ἀρχῆς τάξεις” Plb.2.67.6; “εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ φύσιν” Plu.Pel.31; “εἰς τὴν προϋπάρχουσαν φιλίαν” D.S.20.59; of property, revert, “ἐπί τινα” Just.Nov.7.4; in writing, recur to a point, “ἐπί τι” Plb.5.40.4: abs., “ἀ. τοῖς χρόνοις” 1.12.6,al.
2. c. acc., retrace, traverse, “κῦδος ἀνέδραμον ὕμνῳ” Pi.O.8.54, cf. Semon.10; undo, “ἁμαρτιαν” Men.15D.; “ἀ. τὴν τῆς φύσεως ἐλάττωσιν” make amends for, Plu.2.2c, cf. Luc.Ind. 4.
3. revert, ἐπὶ τοὺς λόγους, τὴν ὕλην, Plot.5.8.1; return to source, of light,4.5.7; run back to (logically), “ἐπὶ τὴν κοινοτάτην αἰτίαν” Phld. D.1.16, cf. Plot.6.1.30.
4. have recourse to, “ἐπὶ . .” Luc.Abd.11, al., Eun.Hist.p.251 D.
II. jump up and run, start up, of men, “ἀναδραμὼν ἔθεε” Hdt.3.36; ἐκ τῆς κοίτης, ἐκ τοῦ θρόνου, Id.7.15,212; “πρὸς τὰ μετέωρα” Th.3.89, cf. X.HG4.4.4.
2. of things, ἐγκεφαλος δὲ . . ἀνέδραμεν ἐξ ὠτειλῆς the brains spurted up from the wound, Il.17.297; σμώδιγγες . . ἀνέδραμον weals started up under the blow, 23.717; slip up, Gal.18(1).829; run or spread over, “τὸ πάθος ἀ. ἐπὶ τὴν χεῖρα” Plu. 2.978c; “ἔρευθος ἀ.” Call.Lav.Pall.27.
3. run up, shoot up, of plants, “ὁ δ᾽ ἀνέδραμεν ἔρνεϊ ἶσος” Il.18.56, cf. Hdt.8.55: hence, of cities and peoples, shoot up, rise quickly, “ἀνά τ᾽ ἔδραμον καὶ εὐθενήθησαν” Hdt.1.66, cf. 7.156; “ἀ. εἰς ἀξίωμα” Plu.Publ.21; ἀ. τοῖς βίοις, ταῖς ἐλπίσι, D.S.5.12, 18.20; “ἀ. ἡ πολυτέλεια” increased, Plu.Mar.34.
4. λίσση δ᾽ ἀναδέδρομε πέτρη the rock ran sheer up, Od.5.412.
5. metaph., soar aloft, of digression to a nobler theme, “ἀνέδραμε πρὸς τὴν ἐν οὐρανῷ λύραν” Anon.in SE40.23.
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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