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βαστάζω , Od.11.594, etc.: fut.
A.“-άσω” A.Pr.1019, S.Aj.920; late “-άξω” Ps.-Callisth.1.45, etc.: aor. “ἐβάστασα” Od.21.405, Ar.Th. 437 (lyr.), etc.; late “ἐβάσταξα” PFay.122, LXXSi.6.25, J.AJ3.8.7, Epigr. ap. Stob.1.49.52:—Pass., fut. “βασταχθήσομαι” Ps.-Callisth.1.42: aor. ἐβαστάχθην Nic.Dam.p.114D., D.L.4.59, Ath.15.693e: aor. 2 “βασταγῆναι” Artem.2.68: pf. βεβάσταγμαι （ἐμ-) Luc.Ocyp.14:—lift up, raise, “λᾶαν βαστάζοντα . . ἀμφοτέρῃσι” Od.11.594; “ἐπεὶ μέγα τόξον ἐβάστασε” 21.405; “πεπτῶτα β. τινά” S.Aj.827, etc.; lift a veil, Id.El. 1470:—Pass., of sluice-gates, PRyl.81.6 (ii A. D.).
2. metaph., lift up, exalt, ennoble, Pi.O.12.19; “β. τινὰ χαρίτεσσιν” Id.I.3.8.
II. bear, carry, A.Pr.1019, etc.; “χερσὶν β. τινά” S.El.1129, cf. 1216; “δόρυ” Hermipp.46.2 (anap.), Theoc.16.78; “ὅπλα” Men.Epit.107.
2. hold in one's hands, S.El.905; “χεροῖν” Id.Ph.657, cf. 1127 (lyr.); of books, “συνεχῶς β.” Epicur.Ep.2p.35U.:—in Pass., to be popular, Arist.Rh. 1413b12.
3. β. ἐν γνώμῃ bear in mind, consider, weigh, A.Pr.888; “φρενί” Ar.Th.437 (lyr.); β. προβούλευμα deliberate on . . , Eup.73; “βαστάσας αἱρήσομαι” on consideration, Id.303.
4. bear, endure, “οὐκέτι βαστάζω τὴν σεῖο διαζυγίην” AP5.8 (Rufin.).
5. produce, yield, of land, PGiss.6 iii 8 (ii A. D.).
III. carry off, take away, Ev.Jo.20.15; steal, Plb.32.15.4, J.AJ1.19.9, D.L.4.59, Luc.Asin.16, PTeb.330.7 (ii A. D.), perh. also in Ev.Jo.12.6, Ath.2.46f (Pass.).
2. in Pass., to be sublimated, Zos.Alch.p.198 B.
IV. in Trag., touch, “χέρα ἄνακτος . . τῇδε β. χερί” A.Ag.35; embrace, “σῶμα” S.OC1105.—Not in Att. Prose: Pass. first in Plb.
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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