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ἄνωθεν and ἄνωθε (Ar.Ec.698), Dor. ἄνωθα Tab.Heracl.1.17: (ἄνω):—Adv. of Place,
A.from above, from on high, “θεοὺς ἄ. γῆς ἐποπτεύειν ἄχη” A.Ag.1579; “ὕδατος ἄ. γενομένου” Th.4.75; “βάλλειν ἄ.” Id.7.84; from the interior of a country, Id.1.59, X.An.7.7.2; esp. from inner Asia, Plu.Dem.14; from the north, Hdt.4.105.
2. like ἄνω, above, on high, opp. κάτωθεν or κάτω, A.Ag.871 (dub.): of the gods, Id.Supp.597 (lyr.), Pl.Lg.717b; of men on earth, οἱ ἄ. the living, A.Ch.834 (lyr.), E.Hel.1014; those on deck (in a ship), Th.7.63; of birds of the air, S.El.1058 (lyr.); ἡ ἄ. Φρυγία upper Phrygia, D.23.155.
b. rarely c. gen., “ἄ. τοῦ στρατοπέδου” Hdt.1.75; “τοῦ καρποῦ” Hp.Art.80; “τῆς νεώς” Plu. Them.12.
II. in narrative or in quiry, from the beginning, from farther back, ἄ. ἄρχεσθαι, ἐπιχειρεῖν, Pl.Phlb. 44d, Lg.781d; “ἄ. ἐξετάζειν τὸ γένος” D.44.69, cf. Men.Epit.23; in quotations, above, earlier, Sch.E.Ph.249, etc.: “οἱ ἔμπροσθεν καὶ ἄ. γονεῖς” ancestors, Pl.Ti.18d; “Κορίνθιαι εἰμὲς ἄ.” by descent, Theoc.15.91, cf. 22.164, Call.Aet.3.1.32; πονηρὸς ἄ. a born rogue, D.45.80; “ἐκ προγόνων ἄ. τετιμημένος” IG22.1072; “ἄ. ἀναμάρτητον” from early life, Phld. Sto.Herc.339.17.16; “ἐν τοῖς ἄ. χρόνοις” D.9.41.
2. “τὰ ἄ.” higher, more universal principles, Pl.Phd.101d, cf. Arist.AP0.97a33.
3. over again, anew, afresh, “φιλίαν ἄ. ποιεῖται” J.AJ1.18.3, Artem.1.14, cf. Ev.Jo.3.3; “πάλιν ἄ.” Ep.Gal.4.9, cf. Harp. s.v. ἀνάδικοι κρίσεις; κτίστης ἄνωθε γενόμενος IG7.2712.58.
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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