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ἐξαίρω , Ep. ἐξα^είρω Hom. (v. infr.), also in Ion. Prose, Hp.Fract. 21, cf. ἀείρω, αἴρω: aor.1
A.“ἐξῆρα” S.OC358, etc.:—lift up, lift off the earth, “ἐκ μὲν ἄμαξαν ἄειραν” Il.24.266; “ἐκ δὲ κτήματ᾽ ἄειραν” Od.13.120 (elsewh. Hom. uses only Med., v. infr.); “ἐξάρας [αὐτὸν] παίει ἐς τὴν γῆν” Hdt.9.107; ἐ. χεῖρας in prayer, Plb.3.62.8; “κοῦφον ἐξάρας πόδα” S.Ant.224; βάθρων ἐκ τῶνδέ μ᾽ ἐξάραντες having bidden me rise (from suppliant posture), Id.OC264, cf. Tr.1193; τίς σ᾽ ἐξῆρεν οἴκοθεν στόλος; made thee start, Id.OC358; “ἡδοναῖς ἄμοχθον ἐ. βίον” Id.Tr.147; ἐ. θώρακα take it out (of its case), Ar.Ach.1133; “πυρσόν” Hero Aut.22.5:—Pass., ib.22.6.
b. seemingly intr., rise from the ground, of a bird, D.S.2.50; “ἐ. τῷ στρατεύματι” start, Plb.2.23.4, cf. LXXNu.2.9.
2. raise in dignity, exalt, magnify, Κλεισθένης [τὴν οἰκίην] ἐξῆρε (v.l. -ήγειρε) Hdt.6.126; “ἐξάρας με ὑψοῦ καὶ τὴν πάτρην” Id.9.79; ἄνω τὸ πρᾶγμα ἐ. exaggerate it, Aeschin.2.10; “ἐπὶ μεῖζον ἐ. τὰ γενόμενα” D.H.8.4; “ὑψηλὸν ἐ. αὑτὸν ἐπί τινι” Pl.R.494d; “ἐ. ὑπόθεσιν” Procl.in Prm.p.522S.; Rhet., treat in elevated style, Hermog.Id.2.3; “τὸν τῆς ἑρμηνείας τύπον ἐ. παρὰ τὸ εἰωθός” Procl.in Prm.p.484S.; “ἐπιστολαὶ μικρὸν ἐξηρμέναι” Demetr.Eloc.234; of music, “ἐξηρμένον καὶ τεθαρρηκός” Heraclid.Pont. ap. Ath.14.624d.
3. arouse, stir up, “θυμὸν ἐς ἀμπλακίην” Thgn.630; “μηδὲν δεινὸν ἐξάρῃς μένος” S.Aj.1066; ἐ. σε θανεῖν excites thy wish to die, E.Hipp.322; “ἐ. φρένα λακεῖν” Id.Alc.346; “ἐ. χάριν χορείας” Ar.Th.981.
4. pervert, “λόγους δικαίων” LXXDe.16.19.
5. remove, “ἔπιπλα” PLond.1.177.21 (i A. D.); make away with, get rid of, “ἐξάρατε τὸν πονηρὸν ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν” 1 Ep.Cor.5.13:—Pass., to be carried away, of a dam, PRyl.133.19 (i A. D.).
II. Med. (Hom. only in 3sg. aor. ἐξήρατο), carry off for oneself, earn, “δοιοὺς μισθούς” Od.10.84; “ὅσ᾽ ἂν οὐδέ ποτε ἐκ Τροίης ἐξήρατ᾽ Ὀδυσσεύς” 5.39; ἐξάρατο ἕδνον won it as a dower, Pi.O.9.10; “θοῶν ἐξήρατ᾽ ἀγώνων . . κειμήλια” Theoc.24.122. (In Hom. ἐξήρατο may have displaced ἐξήρετο, aor. of ἐξάρνυμαι, v. ἀείρω.)
2. ἐξαίρεσθαι νόσον take a disease on oneself, catch it, S.Tr.491.
3. carry off, Pl. Prt.319c.
III. Pass., to be raised, [“τὸ τεῖχος] ἐξῄρετο διπλήσιον τοῦ ἀρχαίου” Hdt.6.133; rise up, rise, “ἐξαιρόμενον νέφος οἰμωγῆς” E.Med. 106; “φλόξ” Plb.14.5.1; “κονιορτός” Id.3.65.4.
2. swell, dub. in Hp. VC15; ἐξαειρόμενα （-εύμενα codd.) ὑπὸ τῆς πιέξιος swellings caused by compression, Id.Fract.21.
3. to be excited, agitated, “ἐλπίδι” S.El. 1461; “ἐξαρθεὶς ὑπὸ μεγαλαυχίας” puffed up, Pl.Lg.716a: c. part., “ἐξήρθης κλύων” E.Rh.109.
4. ἐξηρμένος prob. f.l. in Plb.4.4.5.
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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