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ἀρωγή [α^], ἡ, （ἀρήγω)
A.aid, succour, “Ζηνὸς ἀρωγῇ” Il.4.408; ἐς μέσον . . δικάσσατε μηδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀρωγῇ judge impartially and not in any one's favour, ib.23.574; “πέμπειν ἀ.” A.Ch.477 (lyr.); “οὐδ᾽ ἔχων ἀ.” S.Ph.856 (lyr.); in parody of A., Ar.Ra.1267 sq.; ἀ.νόσου, πόνων, help against . . , Pl. Lg.919c, Mx.238a.
II. of persons, an aid, succour, διπλᾶς ἀρωγὰς μολεῖν, of Apollo and Artemis, S.OC1094 (lyr.); στρατιῶτιν ἀ., of the Greek host, A.Ag.47, cf. 73 (lyr.).—Poet. word, rare in Prose.
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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