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ἀνωθέω ,
A.push up or forth, ἀνώσαντες πλέον (sc. ναῦν) they pushed off from shore and sailed, Od.15.553; “ἀ. τὴν πόλιν εἰς τοὺς πολεμίους” Th.8.93:—Pass., to be thrust upwards, Arist.Pr.931b35.
2. push back, Hp.Art.80; “ὅστις σῖτον . . ἐσαχθέντα ἀνωθεοίη” SIG37 A10（Teos): —Med., repel, repulse, “οὗτοι ἦσαν οἱ βασιλέα . . ἀνωσάμενοι” Hdt.7.139, cf. 8.109.
3. support, of buoyant water, Olymp. in Mete.81.23, al.
4. metaph., hand over, “τὰ πράγματα πρὸς τὸν δῆμον” D.C.52.17; refer, “τὰς ἐλαττώσεις εἰς τοὺς στρατηγήσαντας” Id.Fr.43.18.
5. intr., push one's way up, “εἰς τὸ πρόσαντες” J.BJ3.7.5.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.139
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.109
    • Homer, Odyssey, 15.553
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 3.7.5
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.93
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 80
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 52.17
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