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ἀνείρομαι , used by Hom. only in pres., whereas Att. prefer ἀνερωτάω: but Trag. (in lyr.) use aor.
A.“ἀνηρόμην” S.Aj.314, inf. “ἀνερέσθαι” Id.OT1304; Pl.Men.85c has fut. ἀνερήσομαι, and Hsch. gives ἀνηρήμεθα: ἠρωτήθημεν:
1. c. acc. pers., inquire of, question, “ὅτε κεν δή σ᾽ αὐτὸς ἀνείρηται ἐπέεσσι” Od.4.420; so “μή μ᾽ ἀνέρῃ τίς εἰμι” S.OC210, cf. Aj.314, Pl.Ap.20a, etc.
2. c. acc. rei, ask about, “τήνδε τε γαῖαν ἀνείρεαι” Od.13.238: in Prose also “περί τινος” Pl.Men.74c.
3. c. dupl. acc., ὅ μ᾽ ἀνείρεαι what thou inquirest of me, Il.3.177; “ἀνήρετ᾽ . . χαιρεφῶντα Σωκράτης ψύλλαν ὁπόσους ἅλλοιτο . . πόδας” Ar. Nu.145, cf. Pl.Smp.173b, etc.
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 (11):
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 145
    • Homer, Odyssey, 13.238
    • Plato, Apology, 20a
    • Plato, Symposium, 173b
    • Plato, Meno, 74c
    • Plato, Meno, 85c
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 314
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 210
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1304
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.177
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.420
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