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ἐποτρύνω ,
A.stir up, excite, urge on, abs., “θυμὸς ἐποτρύνει καὶ ἀνώγει” Il. 6.439, al.: c.acc. pers., Hdt.7.170, al.; ἐς τὸ πρόσω ἐ. ib.223 ; “ἐπὶ τὰ δεινά” Th.1.84(v.l.); “τινὰς ἐς μάχην” Plu.Crass.23 ; “μαχομένους” Id.Aem.33 : c. inf., “ἐ. τινὰ μαχέσασθαι” Il.20.171, cf. Hp.Fract.22 ; “στείχειν” Pi.N.9.20 ; “μολεῖν” S.El.1264(lyr.); “ἔρδειν ὅττι κε κεῖνος ἐποτρύνῃ καὶ ἀνώγῃ [ἔρδειν]” Il.15.148 : c. dat. et inf., ἑτάροισιν ἐποτρῦναι καὶ ἀνῶξαι..κατακῆαι to urge and order them..to burn, Od.10.531 ; “ἱππεῦσιν ἐπότρυνον..ἐλαυνέμεν” Il.15.258, cf. 16.525, Q.S.8.337 ; “ἑτάροισιν ἐποτρύνας ἐκέλευσεν” Od.2.422, cf. 9.488.
2. c.acc. rei, νῶϊν ἐποτρύνει πόλεμον stirs up war against us, 22.152 ; also “πόλεμον..ἐ. γίγνεσθαι” Th.7.25 ; ἀγγελίας..ἐ. Κεφαλλήνων πολίεσσι send urgent messages to the cities of the C., Od.24.355 ; σαλπιγκταὶ ξύνοδον ἐπώτρυνον τοῖς ὁπλίταις gave the signal for engagement to the men-atarms, Th.6.69:—Med., ἐποτρυνώμεθα πομπήν let us urge on our escort, Od.8.31:—Pass., press on, hasten, A.Th.698(lyr.).
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 698
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    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 22
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 33
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