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ἐπαν-αιρέω ,
A.make away with, destroy, D.S.19.51; remove, “τὰ γεῖσα” IG22.463.54:—Med., Plb. 2.19.9, etc.; “ἐπαναιρεῖσθαί τινα φαρμάκῳ” Id.8.12.2; “ἐ. τὰς Συρακούσας” Id.1.10.8:—Pass., “ἐπανῄρηται φαρμάκῳ” PTeb.43.19 (ii B.C.).
2. kill after or together with, App.BC4.15, al.; μετά τινα ἑαυτόν ib.4.26.
II. Med. (pf. Pass., f.l. in Pl.Ly.219a, cf. Plu.Comp.Alc. Cor.2), take upon one, enter into, φιλίαν Pl.l.c.; esp. into a profession, τέχνην, λατρείαν, Luc.Bis Acc.1, Apol.4; [βίον] Men.Rh.p.376S., Just.Nov.149.2; ἐ. πόλεμον enter upon a war, Plb.9.29.8:—Pass., of cures, to be employed, Aret.SD2.12.
b. gain, δόξαν Vett. Val.173. 24; in bad sense, incur, ἔχθραν, Jul.Mis.355a.
c. receive as one's share in a division of property, BGU234.7 (ii A.D.), etc.
2. withdraw, “τὸν φιλάνθρωπον νόμον” Plu.TG10, cf. CG4.
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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