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ἀνεγ-είρω ,
A.wake up, rouse, “ἐξ ὕπνου” Il.10.138; “ἐκλεχέων” Od.4.730; “τὴν ἀηδόνα” Ar.Av.208:—Pass., E.HF1055; “ἀνηγέρθη” X.An.3.1.12, AP11.257 (Lucill.): poet. aor. Med. “ἀνεγρόμην” A.R.1.522; “ἀναέγρετο” Maiist.31.
II. metaph., wake up, raise, “κῶμον” Pi.I.8(7).2; “μολπήν” Ar.Ra.370:—Pass., “ἀνεγειρομένα φάμα” Pi.I.4(3).23.
2. metaph. also, rouse, encourage, “ἀνέγειρα δ᾽ ἑταίρους μειλιχίοις ἐπέεσσι” Od.10.172; stir, rouse the spirit of, “θυμοειδῆ ἵππον” X.Eq.9.6:—Med., take heart, Ph.2.120.
III. of buildings, raise, “δόμον” AP9.693a, cf. Lib.Or.11.56; “ἀπὸ θεμελίων” OGI422 (Judaea).
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 208
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 370
    • Euripides, Heracles, 1055
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.1.12
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 9.6
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.522
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