A.bring up from childhood, rear up, Hdt.1.122, A.Ch.750, etc.; “ἐξέφυσε κἀξέθρεψέ με” S.OT827; ἐκτεθραμμένοι σκύμνοι λεόντων true-bred . ., E.Supp.1222; of plants, “τὸ ἐκτρέφον τὴν ῥίζαν” Hdt. 1.193; “ἐκτρέφει ἡ γῆ τὸ σπέρμα” X.Oec.17.10; “ποταμοῦ πνεῦμα τραχύτερον ἐκθρέψαντος” Plu.2.357d:—Med., rear up for oneself, “τινά” h.Cer. 166; ἤνεγκα κἀξέσωσα κἀξεθρεψάμην, says the παιδαγωγός, S.El.13, cf. Fr.387, Pl.Lg.929a:—Pass., “εἴ σοί τις υἱός ἐστιν ἐκτεθραμμένος” Ar.Nu.796; “ἐγένου τε καὶ ἐξετράφης” Pl.Cri.50e, cf. Lys.19.8.
ἐκτρέφω ,
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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