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προερύω , Ep. aor. -έρυσσα (v. infr.),
A.draw on or forward, in Hom. always of ships,
1. νῆα θοὴν ἅλαδε προέρυσσεν drew the swift ship forward, by hauling her from the beach to the sea, Il.1.308; ἐπὴν ἅλαδε προερύσσω (sc. νῆας) 9.358.
2. move the ship forward, by rowing her towards the shore, “αὐτὰς δ᾽ ἐσσυμένως προερύσσαμεν ἤπειρόνδε” Od.9.73; “τὴν δ᾽ εἰς ὅρμον προέρυσσαν ἐρετμοῖς” Il.1.435, Od.15.497 (but προερεσσ- was rightly written by Aristarch. and others).
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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