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ἐπανά-στα^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.rising up to go to stool: hence in pl., concrete, stools, Hp.Prorrh. 1.146.
2. rising up again, D.S.18.31.
3. rising up against, insurrection, Hdt.3.44,118, Th.2.27, etc.; “ἐγένετο ἡ ἐν Σάμῳ ἐ. ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου τοῖς δυνατοῖς” Id.8.21; “ἐ. μέρους τινὸς τῷ ὅλῳ τῆς ψυχῆς” Pl.R.444b; “παθῶν” Hierocl.inCA1p.418M.; opp. ἀπόστασις, D.H. 3.8, Sch.Th.3.39.
b. concrete, ἐπαναστάσεις θρόνων rebellions (i.e. rebels) against the throne, S.Ant.533.
II. rising up, swelling, Hp.Coac.216; prominent growth, Thphr.HP3.7.4; prominence on the head, Arist.HA500a5; “φλυκταινῶν” Dsc.Ther.9, cf. Sor.2.18, Antyll. ap. Orib.8.17.2.
III. metaph., rise in rhetorical tone, Demetr.Eloc.278.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.44
    • Plato, Republic, 444b
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 533
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.27
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.21
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.39
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 18.31
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.8
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