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ἀνακύπτω , fut.
A.“-κύψομαι” Ar.Av.146, Pl.Euthd.302a; “-ψω” Luc. DMar.3.1: aor. “ἀνέκυψα” Hdt.5.91, etc.: pf. “ἀνακέκυ_φα” E. Cyc.212, X. Eq.7.10:—lift up the head, Thphr.Char.11.3; ἀνακεκυφώς with the head high, of a horse, X. l. c.; κἀγκύψας (for καὶ ἀνακύψας） ἔχε and keep your head up, Ar.Th.236; “ἐν ὀροφῇ ποικίλματα θεώμενος ἀνακύπτων” throwing his head back, Pl.R.529b; “ἀνακύψατε καὶ ἐπάρατε τὰς κεφαλάς” Ev.Luc.21.28; esp. in drinking, Arist.HA613a13, cf. E. l. c.; “ἐπικύπτειν καὶ ἀ.” Gal.6.146.
II. come up out of the water, pop up, Ar.Ra.1063; “ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης εἰς τὸν ἐνθάδε τόπον” Pl.Phd. 109d; ἀ. μέχρι τοῦ αὐχένος, opp. καταδῦναι, Id.Tht.171d, cf. Phdr. 249c.
b. metaph., emerge, crop up, “ὅτι ἐξ αὐτῶν καλόν τι ἀνακύψοιτο” Id.Euthd.302a; “αἱ -κύπτουσαι χρεῖαι” Ascl.Tact.11.7, cf. Ath.1.25e, Cod.Just.1.2.17.
c. of persons, rise out of difficulties, breathe again, Hdt.5.91, X.Oec.11.5; “τὰ τῶν Καρχηδονίων ἀνέκυψε” Plb.1.55.1, cf. D.Chr.13.35; “ἀπὸ τῶν μυχῶν τοῦ σώματος” Porph.Marc.6.
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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