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ἐπανα-βαίνω , poet. ἐπαμβ- , Opp.H.3.638:—
A.get up on, mount, “ἐπί τι” Ar.Nu.1487, Eq.169; ἐπαναβεβηκότες mounted (on horseback), Hdt.3.85; of a star, rise above the horizon, Arist.Mete.342b34.
2. of animals, cover, Id.HA540a22, Clearch.36.
3. come upon, “τὸ γῆρας ἐπαναβάν” Com.Adesp.612.
II. go up inland, Th. 7.29.
III. to be promoted, “εἰς τὰς τῶν ταξιάρχων χώρας” X.Cyr.2.1.23.
2. of αἰτίαι and ἀρχαί, mount upwards, “ἐπὶ τὰ ἀνωτέρω” Arist. Metaph.990a6, cf. Ph.257a22; τὸ ἐπαναβεβηκός higher or more ultimate principle, S.E.P.1.174; the genus, Sor.2.6; [“ἀρχῆς] οὐδεὶς ἂν εὕροι ἁπλουστέραν οὐδὲ ἐπαναβεβηκυῖαν ἡντινοῦν” Plot.2.9.1; search for higher principles, “ἐ. ἀεὶ εἰς ἄπειρον” Id.3.6.1; ἐπαναβεβηκότα τῇ ψυχῇ [νοῦν] Id.6.9.5.
b. transcend, c. gen., Anon.in Prm. in Rh.Mus.47.617; also c. dat., ἐνέργεια -βεβηκυῖα πάσαις καὶ χρωμένη αὐταῖς ὡς ὀργάνοις ibid.
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 (5):
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 169
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.85
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.1.23
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 1487
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.29
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