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ἀνοκωχεύω , Ion. ἀνακ- ,
A.hold back, stay, hinder, ἀ. τὰς νέας keep them riding at anchor, Hdt.6.116 (cf. Hsch. s.v. ἀνακ-), etc.: metaph., of a chariot, hold it in, keep it back, S.El.732; also “ἀ. πόλεμον” D.H.9.16.
2. ἀ. τὸν τόνον τῶν ὅπλων keep up the tension of the ropes, keep them taut, Hdt.7.36.
3. keep afloat, Arist.Cael.313a23.
II. also intr. (sc. ἑαυτόν), keep still, Hdt.9.13; hold back, of ships, D.S. 11.18.—The form ἀνακωχέω support, relieve strain upon, is found in Hp.Art.9, 38, Mochl.2.
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 (8):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.18
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.116
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.36
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.13
    • Sophocles, Electra, 732
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 38
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 9
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.16
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