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ἐπισείω , Ep. ἐπισσ- (as always in Hom.),
A.shake at or against, τί τινι, esp. with the view of scaring, ὅτ᾽ ἂν . . Ζεὺς . . αὐτὸς ἐπισσείῃσιν “ἐρεμνὴν αἰγίδα πᾶσι” Il.4.167, cf. 15.230; ἐπισείουσα τὸν λόφον ἐκπλήττει με Luc.DDeor.19.1, cf.2.2, etc.; “τὰ δόρατα” Hdn.2.13.4; ἐ. πόλεμον τῇ πατρίδι stir up . . , J.BJ2.17.3; Πέρσας ἐ. hold them out as a threat, Plu.Them.4; but ἐ. τὴν χεῖρα, in token of assent or applause, Luc. Pr.Im.4, Bis Acc.28; “ἐπὶ δ᾽ ἔσεισεν κόμαν” E.IT1276 (lyr.): abs., τόσσον ἐπισσείει so she seems to threaten, of a statue, AP9.755:— Pass., “κόμαι ἐ. τοῖς κροτάφοις” Lib.Decl.12.27: metaph., τὸν ἐπισεισθέντα “τῶν παθῶν σκηπτόν” Ph.1.210.
2.. urge on, [ἵππον] S.Fr.147; ἐ. τινὶ τὰς δρακοντώδεις κόρας set them upon one, E.Or.255; ἐ. πόλιν σοί ib.613; “μὴ 'πίσειέ μοι τὸν Μισγόλαν” Alex.3; hurl at, “τινὶ πέτρον” Parth.14.4.
3.. intr., assault, “τοῖς τείχεσι” D.S.13.94 codd.
4.. shake so as to touch, Callistr.Stat.6, cf. Poll.4.147.
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 (14):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.94
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1276
    • Euripides, Orestes, 255
    • Euripides, Orestes, 613
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.230
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.167
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.17.3
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 147
    • Plutarch, Themistocles, 4
    • Lucian, Pro imaginibus, 28
    • Lucian, Pro imaginibus, 4
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 19.1
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2.2
    • Callistratus, Descriptiones, 6
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