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ἐξαν-ίστημι :
I. causal in pres., impf., fut., and aor.1:
1. raise up, “τοὺς θανόντας” S.El.940; make one rise from his seat, Pl.Prt.310a; bid one rise from suppliant posture, “ἐγώ σ᾽ ἕδρας ἐκ τῆσδε . . ἐξαναστήσω” E.Andr.263, cf. 267; ἐ. τὴν ἐνέδραν order the men in ambush to rise, X.HG4.8.37.
2. make a tribe emigrate, remove or expel, ἐ. τινὰς ἐκ τῶν νήσων, ἐξ ἠθέων, etc., Hdt.1.171, 5.14, etc.; “ἄνδρας δόμων” S.Ant. 297; ἐ. πόλεως bid one depart from . ., Id.OC47; simply “ἐ. τινάς” Hdt.6.127, Th.4.98, etc. (v. infr.11.2).
b. challenge a juror, PHal. 9.5 (iii B. C.), PGurob 2.10 (iii B. C.), etc.
3. depopulate, destroy, “πόλιν” Hdt.1.155, al.; “Ἰλίου ποτ᾽ ἐξαναστήσας βάθρα” E.Supp.1198; “Ἑλλάδα” Id.Tr.926.
4. ἐ. θηρία rouse them from their lair, X.Cyr. 2.4.20.
5. τουτὶ ἐ., erigere penem, E.Cyc.169.
II. intr. in Pass., with aor. 2, pf. and plpf. Act.:
1. stand up from one's seat, Hdt.3.142; “ἐκ τοῦ θρόνου” Id.5.72, cf. Pl.Ly.211a; “θάκων” X.Hier. 7.7; ὁδῶν τινί, in courtesy, Id.Smp.4.31; rise to speak, S.Ph.367; rise from ambush, “λόχου” E.El.217: without λόχου, Th.3.107; rise after dinner, Pl.R.328a, etc.; “πρὸ μέθης” Isoc.1.32; from bed, “λέχους” E.El.786; “ἐξ εὐνῆς” X.Oec.10.8; ἐξαναστῶμεν εἰς τὴν αὐλήν let us rise and go into . ., Pl.Prt.311a; “εἰς περίπατον” X.Smp.9.1.
2. c. gen., arise and depart from, emigrate from, “Λακεδαίμονος” Pi.P.4.49, cf. E. Andr.380; “ἐκ τῆς γῆς τῆσδε” Hdt.4.115: abs., break up, depart, Th. 7.49, etc.
3. to be driven out from one's home, to be forced to emigrate, “ἐξ ἠθέων ὑπό τινος” Hdt.1.15, cf. 56, al.; “πρὸς δάμαρτος ἐξανίσταται θρόνων” A.Pr.767.
4. of places, to be depopulated, “ἐξαναστάσης πάσης Πελοποννήσου ὑπὸ Δωριέων” Hdt.2.171; “Τροίης ἐξανεστάθη βάθρα” E.Hel.1652, cf. D.16.25.
5. rise to go to stool, Hp.Epid.1.26.δ́, etc.
6. rise from the plain, of a mountain, Plb.1.56.4.
b. so of ulcers, rise, Aret.SD2.13; of an excrescence, “κέρχνος ἐ.” S.Fr. 279.
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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