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ἐπιβα^τ-εύω ,
A.set one's foot upon, occupy, c. gen., “Συρίας” Plu.Ant.28, cf. Luc.Cont. 2: metaph., take one's stand upon, τοῦ Σμέρδιος οὐνόματος ἐπιβατεύων usurping it, Hdt.3.63, cf. 67,9.95; “τῆς ἡγεμονίας” D.C.79.7; τὸ “τῆς οὐσίας ἓν -εῦον” Dam.Pr.88; τούτου ἐ. τοῦ ῥήματος rely upon . . , Hdt.6.65.
II.. to be an ἐπιβάτης, passenger or soldier on board ship, ἐ.ἐπὶ [νεῶν] ib.15, al., Luc.Par.46; “ἐπὶ νηί” Pl.La.183d: c.dat., Ar.Ra.48 (with an obscene allusion, cf. “ἐπιβαίνω” A. 111.3).
2.. mount, “τοῦ θρόνου” Philostr.VS2.8.2.
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, Frogs, 48
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.63
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.65
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.95
    • Plato, Laches, 183d
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 28
    • Lucian, Contemplantes, 2
    • Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, 46
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 79.7
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.8.2
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