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ἐπαρτ-άω ,
A.hang on or over, “φόβους τοῖς ἀκροωμένοις” Aeschin.1.175, cf. Porph.Abst.1.2; τισὶν ὀχλήσεις Polystr.p.30 W.; “τιμωρίαν τινί” Ael.VH7.15:—Med., lit., hang upon, “τινί τι” Orph.A.1337:—Pass., hang over, impend, “τοσοῦτος ἐπήρτηται φόβος” D.23.140; “ἀπαλλαγὴν τῶν ἐπηρτημένων φόβων” Id.18.324; “ἀγών τινι -ημένος” Hdn.2.3.7; “κίνδυνος” IGRom.4.151 (Cyzicus), BGU 1027.23 (iv A.D.).
II. τὸ ἐπηρτημένον [τοῦ ζυγοῦ] the elevated part of the beam, Arist.Mech. 850a23.
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 (4):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 175
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 324
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, 140
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 7.15
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