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ἐπεγ-είρω ,
A.awaken, rouse up, “τινά” Od.22.431, Thgn.469, Ar.Av. 83:—Pass., to be roused from sleep, wake up, Hom., only in aor. forms ἐπέγρετο, ἐπεγρόμενος, Il.10.124, 14,256, Od.20.57; “μέχρι ἐπέγρωνται” Hp.Morb.Sacr.1; “φεύγετε . . ἄνδρ᾽ ἐπεγειρόμενον” E.HF1083 (anap.); “δόξαι, αἳ ἐρωτήσει ἐπεγερθεῖσαι ἐπιστῆμαι γίγνονται” Pl.Men. 86a: pf. ἐπήγερται is dub. l. in Luc.Zeux.4.
II. metaph., awaken, excite, “πόλεμον εὕδοντ᾽” Sol.4.19; “διωγμόν” Act.Ap.13.50; “τὸ πάλαι κείμενον κακόν” S.OC510 (lyr.); ἐπὶ . . θρῆνον ἐ. ib.1778 (anap.); “ὅσον ἑσμὸν λόγων ἐπεγείρετε” Pl.R.450b; stir up, “τὸ Ἑλληνικόν” Hdt.7.139; “τὰς ψυχάς” Act.Ap.14.2; “ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν νεότητα μνήμῃ ἐ.” Pl.Lg.657d; “τοῦ ἐπεγείροντος ὥσπερ μύωπος δεήσει” Socr.Ep.1.6:—Pass., ἐπηγέρθη [ἡ Ταλθυβίου μῆνις] Hdt.7.137; “ἐπηγείροντο ταῖς ψυχαῖς” D.S. 14.52.
III. erect, raise, τὰς ἀκάνθας -ων erecting his prickles, like certain fish when irritated, Com.Adesp.1338 ( = [S.]Fr.1121); “ὅταν ἐπεγερθῶσιν φλύκταιναι” Philum.Ven.17.5.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 83
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.52
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    • Homer, Iliad, 14
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    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 1121
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