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ἐπαίρω , Ion. and poet. ἐπα^είρω Hdt.1.204 and always in Hom.: fut. ἐπα_ρῶ (contr. from α^ερ-) E.IA125 (anap.), Supp.581 (prob. l.), X Mem.3.6.2: aor. ἐπῆρα, part.
A.“ἐπάρας” Hdt.1.87, etc.: pf. “ἐπῆρκα” Amphis 13, Them.Or.8.114b:—Pass., aor. ἐπήρθην, part. ἐπαρθείς: <*>lift up and set on, [αὐτὸν] ἀμαξάων ἐπάειρραν lifted and set him upon . ., Il.7.426; “ὀβελοὺς . . κρατευτάων ἐπάειρας” 9.214.
2. lift, raise, “κεφαλὴν ἐπαείρας” 10.80; “καί μ᾽ ἔπαιρε” S.Ph.889; “ἐπαίρων βλέφαρα” Id.OT1276 codd.; “ἐπάειρε δέρην” E.Tr.99 (anap.); “ἔπαιρε σαυτόν” Ar.V. 996; “σεμνῶς ἐπηρκὼς τὰς ὀφρῦς” Amphis l.c.; πάντες ἐπῆραν (sc. τὴν χεῖρα) SIG1109.24; “οὐδεὶς ἐπῆρε” IG3.1132; “ἐπάρας τὴν φωνήν” D.18.291; ἐπαιρόμενα ἱστία, opp. ὑφιέμενα, Plu.Luc.3:—Med., με τεῷ ἐπαείραο μαζῷ didstliftand put me to thy breast, A.R.3.734; [λόγχην] E.IT 1484; “ὅπλ᾽ ἐπαίρεσθαι θεῷ” Id.Ba.789; “ἱστούς” Plb.1.61.7; “βακτηρίαν” Plu.2.185b: metaph., “τί . . στάσιν γλώσσης ἐπήρασθε;” S.OT635; “πολλοὺς καὶ θρασεῖς τῇ πόλει λόγους ἐπαιρόμενος” D.18.222; “κοινὸν ἡ πόλις ἐπήρατο πένθος” D.S.34.17.
3. exalt, magnify, “ἐπαείρειν Αοκρῶν ματέρ᾽” Pi.O.9.20; “ἐπαρεῖς τὸν πατρῷον οἶκον” X.Mem.3.6.2.
4. intr., lift up one's leg or rise up, Hdt.2.162; rise from table, Euang.1.10.
5. Pass., swell up, Hp.Liqu.2, Gal.6.264, 18(2).119; ἐπῆρται τοῦτό γε, in mal. part., Ar.Lys.937; “ὁ καυλὸς ἐπαίρεται” Hippiatr. 54.
6. Gramm., ἐ. τὴν προσῳδίαν make the accent acute, Sch.Il.11.636.
II. stir up, excite, “πολλά τέ μιν καὶ μεγάλα τὰ ἐπαείροντα . . ἦν” Hdt.1.204; “τίς σ᾽ ἐπῆρε δαιμόνων;” S.OT1328; “πέρα τοῦ καιροῦ τοὺς ἑτέρους ἐ.” D.16.23; “ἐ. θυμόν τινι” E.IA125; “τοῦτό σε ψυχὴν ἐπαίρει” Id.Heracl.173; “ἑαυτὸν ἐπίτινι” Diog.Oen.64; “ἵππον” urge on, Them.Or.1.13c; induce, persuade to do, c.inf., “εἰρωτᾶν εἰ οὔτι ἐπαισχύνεται ἐπάρας Κροῖσον στρατεύεσθαι” Hdt.1.90, cf. Isoc.4.108, Aeschin.1.192; “ἥτις με γῆμ᾽ ἐπῆρε” Ar.Nu.42, cf. Ra.1041; “ἐ. τινὰ ὥστε . .” E.Supp.581; ὅστις μ᾽ ἐπάρας ἔργον (sc. πρᾶξαι) Id.Or.286:—Pass., to be roused, led on, excited, “τῷ μαντηΐῳ” Hdt.1.90, cf. 5.91; “τοῖσι δωρήμασι” Id.7.38; “τοῖς τῆς πόλεως κακοῖς” And.1.37; “ὑπὸ τῆς τύχης” Lys.2.10; πλούτῳ, τιμῇ, Pl.R.434b, 608b; “ὑπὸ λόγων” Ar.Av.1448; “τῇ ἐλπίδι ὡς. .” Th.1.81, cf. Lys.9.21; “τοῖς λόγοις” Th.4.121; “δεινότητι καὶ ξυνέσεως ἀγῶνι” Id.3.37 (so “τὸ ἐπαιρόμενον τοῦ λόγου τῇ δεινότητι” Plu.Cic.25); “ὑπὸ μεγάλου μισθοῦ” Th.7.13; “ἐ. ἐς τὸ νεωτερίζειν” Id.4.108; “ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν” LXX 3 Ki.12.[24]: c. inf., “ἐπήρθην γράψαι” Isoc.5.10; τῷ or τὸ λέγειν (dub. l.) Pl.Phdr.232a (but ναυτικῷ προύχειν -όμενοι flattering themselves that they were superior . ., Th.1.25): abs., to be excited, on tiptoe, Ar.Nu. 810; and so “Ἑλλὰς τῇ ὁρμῇ ἐπῆρται” Th.2.11.
2. Pass., also, to be elated at a thing, “εὐδαιμονίῃ μεγάλῃ” Hdt.5.81; “ψυχρῇ νίκῃ” Id.9.49, cf. 1.212, 4.130; “ἐπὶ πλούτῳ” X.Mem.1.2.25; “πρός τι” Th.6.11, 8.2; “ἐκ τοῦ γεγονότος προτερήματος” Plb.1.29.4: abs., Th.4.18.
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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