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ἐγείρω , Aeol. inf.
A.“ἐγέρρην” Alc.Supp.16.12, cf. Et.Gud.157.48: Ep. impf. “ἔγειρον” Il.15.594: fut. “ἐγερῶ” Pl.Epigr.28 (cf. ἐξ-, ἐπ-): aor. ἤγειρα, Ep. ἔγ- Od.15.44: pf. “ἐγήγερκα” Philostr.Ep.16: plpf. -κειν J.AJ 17.7.4, D.C.42.48:—Pass., Pl.R.330e, etc.: fut. “ἐγερθήσομαι” Babr.49.3 (also fut. Med. ἐγεροῦμαι dub. in Polyaen.1.30.5): aor. “ἠγέρθην” Hdt.4.9, etc.; Ep. 3pl. ἔγερθεν v.l. for ἄγ. in Il.23.287: pf. ἐγήγερμαι v.l. in Th.7.51: plpf. “ἐγήγερτο” Luc.Alex.19: also, in pass. sense, poet. aor. ἠγρόμην （ἐξ-) Ar.Ra.51; 3sg. ἔγρετο, imper. ἔγρεο, Il.2.41, Od.23.5; 2sg. subj. “ἔγρῃ” Ar.V. 774; opt. “ἔγροιτο” Od.6.113; inf. ἐγρέσθαι (freq. written ἔγρεσθαι, as if from a pres. ἔγρομαι, cf. ἔγρω) ib.13.124; part. “ἐγρόμενος” 10.50 (and late Prose, Iamb.Myst. 1.15): intr. pf. ἐγρήγορα (as pres.) Ar.Lys.306, Pl.Prt.310b, etc.: plpf. ἠγρηγόρη (as impf.) Ar.Ec.32; 3pl. “ἐγρηγόρεσαν” Id.Pl.744; 3sg. “ἐγρηγόρει” X.Cyr.1.4.20: Ep. pf. 3pl. “ἐγρηγόρθασι” Il.10.419; imper. ἐγρήγορθε (v.infr.11); inf. ἐγρήγορθαι ib.67.
I. Act., awaken, rouse, “ἐ. τινὰ ἐξ ὕπνου” 5.413, etc.; “τοὺς δ᾽ . . ὑπνώοντας ἐγείρει” 24.344; “ἐ. τινὰ εὐνῆς” E.HF1050\(lyr.); simply, “ἐ. τινά” A.Eu.140, etc.: metaph., “τὰς τέχνας” Theoc.21.1.
2. rouse, stir up, Il.5.208; “ἐπεί μιν ἔγειρε Διὸς νόος” 15.242; ἐγείρειν Ἄρηα stir the fight, 2.440, etc.; ἐ. μάχην, φύλοπιν, etc., 13.778, 5.496, etc.; Τρωσὶν θυμὸν ἐ. (v.l. ἀγεῖραι) ib.510; “ἐ. τινὰ ἐπὶ ἔργον” Hes.Op.20; “ἔγειρε νῆα” h.Ap.408; ἐκδοχὴν πομποῦ πυρὸς ἐ. wake up the bale-fire, A.Ag.299; λαμπάδας ἐ. Ar.Ra.340: freq. metaph., ἐ. ἀοιδάν, λύραν, μέλος, θρῆνον, Pi.P.9.104, N.10.21, Cratin.222, S.OC1778 (anap.); “μῦθον” Pl.Plt.272d; τὸ οὖς ἐ. 'prick up' the ears, Plot.5.1.12.
3. raise from the dead, “νεκρούς” Ev.Matt. 10.8, cf. 1 Ep.Cor.15.42 (Pass.); or from a sick-bed, Ep.Jac.5.15.
4. raise, erect a building, Hyp.Fr.103, Call.Ap.64, OGI677.3 (ii A. D.); “ναόν” Ev.Jo.2.19, cf. Luc.Alex.10:—Pass., “στῦλος ἐγηγερμένος” Bito 66.5, cf. Plu.Alex.19, Jul.Caes.320c.
II. Pass., with pf. Act. ἐγρήγορα, wake, “ἐγειρομένων ἀνθρώπων” Od.20.100, cf. Hdt.4.9, etc.; “ἔγρετο δ᾽ ἐξ ὕπνου” Il.2.41: metaph., “ἐγειρόμενος εἰς ἐμαυτὸν ἐκ τοῦ σώματος” Plot.4.8.1: in pf., to be awake, “ἐγρηγόρθασι” Il.10.419; ἐγρήγορθε stay awake ! 7.371, 18.299 (whereas ἔγρεο is wake up! Od.15.46); ἐγρήγορας ἢ καθεύδεις; Pl.Prt.310b; “πόλις ζῶσα καὶ ἐγρηγορυῖα” Id.Lg. 809d; “καὶ ἐφρόνει καὶ ἐγρηγόρει” X.Cyr.1.4.20, etc.; of things, ἐγειρομένου χειμῶνος arising, Hdt.7.49: so metaph., τὰ ἐκ τοῦ βαρβάρου ἐγειρόμενα ib.148; “ἐγρηγορὸς φρούρημα” A.Eu.706; “ἐ. τὸ πῆμα” Id.Ag. 346, etc.
2. rouse or stir oneself, be excited by passion, etc., Hes. Sc.176, D.19.305: c. inf., ἐγηγερμένοι ἦσαν μὴ ἀνιέναι τὰ τῶν Ἀθηναίων they were encouraged to prevent the departure of the Athenians, v.l. in Th.7.51.
III. intr. in Act., arouse oneself, Aesop.16b.
IV. in “ἀμφὶ πυρὴν . . ἔγρετο λαός” Il.7.434, 24.789, ἔγρ. is for ἤγρ- （ἀγείρω); so in Maiist.52.
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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