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ἐπιτολή , ἡ, (ἐπιτέλλω (B))
A.the rising of a star, “ἄστρων” E.Ph.1116 (pl.), cf. Archyt.I, Ptol.Alm.8.4 : hence, the season of a star's appearance in the heavens, Hp.Aër.2, Thphr.CP2.19.4, etc.; “Ἀρκτούρου” Th. 2.78 (pl.); “Κυνός” Arist.HA602a26 ; “τῆς Πλειάδος” Plb.4.37.2 ; later of the sun or moon, App.BC5.90, Philostr.VA6.4 (pl.), Artem.1.3 (pl.):—as explained by Gem.13.3, ἐ.=rising (ἀνατολή) of a star as the sun rises or sets (ἐ. ἀληθινή, ἑῴα ἢ ἑσπερία), or just before sunrise or after sunset (ἐ. φαινομένη).
2. rising of the wind, Palaeph. 17 (pl., s.v.l.) ; rise or source of a river, or perh.=“ἐπιπολή” 1.1, dub.l.in GDI 5075.52 (Latos).
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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    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1116
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.78
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.37.2
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.4
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