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ἀνέλκω ,
A.draw up, τάλαντα . . ἀνέλκει holds them up (in weighing), 1l.12.434; ἀνελκύσαι ναῦς haul them up high and dry, Hdt.7.59, Th. 6.44; “νῆες ἀνελκυσμέναι” Hdt.9.98; “δοκοὺς ἀ.” Th.2.76; haul up a sail, Epicr.10.
2. drag up, drag out, “ἀνελκύσαι εἰς τὸ φῶς” Ar.Pax307; κα<*>ιτ᾽ ἀνελκύσας ἐρωτᾷ having dragged him into open court, Id.Ach.687; τὰ παιδάρι᾽ εὐδὺς ἀνέλκει drags them into the witness-box, Id.V.568: —Med., ἀνέλκεσθαι τρίχας tear one's own hair, Il.22.77:—Pass., “κύνα χερσὶν ἀνελκομενον” D.P.790.
II. draw back, ὁ δὲ τόξου πῆχυν ἄνελκεν (in act to shoot) Il.11.375, cf. Od.21.128:—Med., ἔγχος ἀνελκόμενον drawing back his spear [out of the corpse], ib.22.97; “τόξον ἀνέλκεται τοξευτής” Arat.305:—Pass., pf. part. “ἀνειλκυσμένος” Procl.Hyp.7.39.
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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