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ἀείρω,
Epic dialect, Ionic dialect, and poetry; αἴρω (once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, see below)] Refs 8th c.BC+], Attic dialect and Trag. (except [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 759, “Pers.” 660, both Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἀέρρω, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 78: ] Refs 7th c.BC+]imperfect ἤειρον (συν-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.499, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.125] Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἄειρον[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.386] Refs 8th c.BC+], Attic dialect and Trag. ᾖρον: future ἀρῶ [ᾱ], contraction for ἀερῶ (which is not found), [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 795, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 322, “Tr.” 1148, probably in 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 14] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἤειρα (συν-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.590] Refs 8th c.BC+], (παρ-) [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 94, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 9.13] Refs 7th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἄειρα[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.730] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect imperative ἀέρρατε[[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 91] Refs 7th c.BC+]; subjunctive ἀέρσῃ[[ Panyasis Epicus 13.13] Refs]; participle ἀείρας[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 418; also ἄηρα “IG” 12(3).449 (from Thera)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦρα[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.59, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 47, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.18, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], 3rd.pers.plural ἤροσαν[[ LXX.Josh.3.14, _optative_ ἄραις 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 5.71] LXX+3rd c.BC+], infinitive ἆραι[[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 35] Refs 3rd c.BC+], participle ἄρας[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.12, etc., Cretan dialect ἤραντας “GDI” 5015 (Gort.) [ᾱ-] Refs 5th c.BC+] in all moods]: perfect ἦρκα[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.52] Refs 4th c.BC+], (ἀπ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.100, ] Refs 5th c.BC+]pluperfect ἤρκεσαν (ἀπ-) [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.150] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle ἀείρομαι (ἀπ-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.563, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 216 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἴρομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 360, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.60: fut ἀροῦμαι [ᾱ] 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1597] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 imperative ἀείραο[[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.746, ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]infinitive ἀείρασθαι (ἀντ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.212] Refs 5th c.BC+], participle -άμενος[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.856, “IG” 4.952.112 (Epid.)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ἠράμην [ᾱ- in all moods] [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.510, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.107, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 986, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 525, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 374e, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect ἄρατο[[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 2.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἦρμαι[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 54] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 450 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.174] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ἀρθήσομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 565] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἠέρθην[[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1651] Refs 3rd c.BC+], (παρ-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.341] Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἀέρθην[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.540] Refs 8th c.BC+], 3rd.pers.plural ἄερθεν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.74] Refs 8th c.BC+], subjunctive ἀερθῶ[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 848 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+], participle ἀερθείς[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.375, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.75, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1525 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.1, etc.; also ἤρθην 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 111, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 214 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.42, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+], participle ἀρθείς[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.63] Refs 8th c.BC+], (ἐπ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.90, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἤερμαι[[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.171: _Epic dialect_ ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]pluperfect 3rd.pers.singular ἄωρτο (for ἤορτο) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.272, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.43, ἔωρτο 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus [ἀείρω] Refs 8th c.BC+] has ᾰ, except in late poetry, as [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.347.] (ἀείρω ={ἀ-ϝερ-} yω,compare αὐειρομέναι 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 23.63] Refs 7th c.BC+]; αἴρω (oncein [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.724 in _participle_ αἴροντας) may ={ϝαρ-yω} for ϝγ[νυλλ]-ψω from the reduced form of the root, but is more probably an analogical formation arising from the contracted forms. Fut. ἀροῦμαι [ᾰ] and ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist ἀρόμην, ἤρετο, etc., infinitive ἀρέσθαι [ᾰ], belong to ἄρνυμαι, which see; ἤρᾰτο may have displaced ἤρετο in Hom,[[compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis ad 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.373] Refs 8th c.BC+]. The sense attach found in compounds συν-, παρ-αείρω is probably derived from the use see.[[ 1.) ] Refs]
Close Browse lexicon entries __I active, lift, raise up, νέκυν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.724] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὑψόσ᾽ ἀείρας [κυνέην[[] 10.465; πίνακας παρέθηκεν ἀείρας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.141; Εὐμάστας με ἄηρεν ἀπὸ χθονός “IG” 12(3).449, inscription on a stone (from Thera)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ γῆς αἴ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 90a] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἱστία στεῖλαν ἀείραντες furled by brailing them up, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.11] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ἀ. ἱστία hoist sail, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.1229; αἴ. κεραίας 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.12; εὔμαριν ἀ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 660] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κοῦφον αἴ. βῆμα walk lightly, trip, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 342] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. σκέλη, of a horse, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 10.15, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 710b20; ὀρθὸν αἴ. τὸ κάρα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 496; ὀφθαλμὸν ἄρας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 795] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄρασα μύξας, of a deer, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 89; ὀφρῦς αἴροντα 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 85] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἴ. σημεῖον make a signal, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.23] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. μηχανήν, in the theatre, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 191.15; so ἐπὶ τὰς μηχανὰς καταφεύγουσι θεοὺς αἴροντες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 425d] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τεῖχος ἱκανὸν αἴ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.90, compare 2.75:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —frequently in participle, ἄρας ἔπαισε he raised [them] and struck, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1270; ἡ βουλὴ ἄρασα τὴν ἀφ᾽ ἱερᾶς ἀφῆκεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 32, cf. NT.1Cor.6.15] NT+5th c.BC+]:—passive, ἐς αἰθέρα δῖαν ἀέρθη[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.540, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.74; ὑψόσ᾽ ἀερθείς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.432; ἔμπνους ἀρθείς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.9; φρυκτοὶ ᾔροντο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.94, cf. Aen. Tact. 26.14] Refs 8th c.BC+]; mount up, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄνω ἀρθῆναι, of the sun, to be high in heaven, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 6;] Refs 5th c.BC+] to be seized, snatched up, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 565. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 take up, in various uses: draw water, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1339] Refs 5th c.BC+]; gather food, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 707] Refs 5th c.BC+]; pluckherbs, [[ “PMag.Par.” 1.287, +others ] Refs]
__I.3 take up and carry or bring, ἐκ βελέων Σαρπηδόνα δῖον ἀείρας[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.678; νόσφιν ἀειράσας 24.583] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄχθος ἀ. convey, of ships, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.312] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μῆλα ἐξ᾽ Ιθάκης ἄειραν νηυσί carried them off, [[ 21.18] Refs]; μή μοι οἶνον ἄειρε bring me not wine, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.264. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.4 take up and bear, as a burden, μόρον[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 547; ἆθλον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 80; ἄλγος 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.65. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.4.b wear clothes, [[ LXX.1Ki.2.28, +others ] LXX]
__I.5 of armies or fleets, τὰς ναῦς αἴ. get the ships under sail, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.52] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially intransitive, get under way, set out, ἆραι τῷ στρατῷ[[ [prev. author] 2.12: _absolutely_, [prev. work] 23] Refs]:—passive, ἀερθῆναι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.52; ἀερθέντες ἐκ.. 1.165; ἀ. εἰς.. 1.170; ἐφ᾽ ἡμετέρᾳ γᾷ ἀρθείς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 111 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ἀερθείς carried too far, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.75. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.6 raise, levy, λεκτὸν ἀροῦμεν στόλον[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 795. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.7 rear a child, τοῖς τοκεῦσί σ᾽ ἤειρα[[ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 9.13. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II raise up, exalt, ἀπὸ σμικροῦ δ᾽ ἂν ἄρειας μέγαν[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 262, compare 791] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὄλβον ὅν Δαρεῖος ἦρεν [[ [prev. author] “Pers.” 164] Refs]:—especially of pride and passion, exalt, excite, ὑψοῦ αἴ. θυμόν grow excited, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 914] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. θάρσος pluck up courage, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1598] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be raised, increased, ἡ δύναμις ᾔρετο[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.118; ᾔρετο τὸ ὕψος τοῦ τείχους μέγα [prev. author] 2.75] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤρθη μέγας rose to greatness, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.8; οὐκ ἤρθη νοῦν ἐς ἀτασθαλίην 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 111] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀρθῆναι φόβῳ, δείμασι, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 214, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 69: _absolutely_, ἀείρομαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 216 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1180. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 raise by words, hence, praise, extol, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 322, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἴ. λόγῳ to exaggerate, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.71. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III lift and take away, remove, ἀπό με τιμᾶν ἦραν[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 847; τινὰ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 578e] Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally, take away, put an end to, κακά[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 942] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τραπέζας αἴ. clear away dinner, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 273; ἀρθέντος τοῦ αἰτίου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 920b11] Refs 4th c.BC+]; deny (opposed to τίθημι posit), [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.10] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Delph. and Locrian dialect perfect passive participle ἀρμένος cancelled, null and void, ὠνὰ ἀ. καὶ ἄκυρος[[ “GDI” 1746 (Delph.); ἀτελὴς καὶ ἀ. “IG” 9(1).374 (from Naupactus). ] Refs]
__III.2 make away with, destroy, [[NT.Matt.24.39; ἆρον, ἆρον ] NT]away with him! [[NT.John.19.15] NT]; ἐκ τῶν ζώντων αἴ. [[ “Tab.Defix.Aud.” 1.18. ] Refs]
__IV middle, lift, take up for oneself or what is one's own, [πέπλων] ἕν᾽ ἀειραμένη[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.293] Refs 8th c.BC+]; hence, carry off, win, πάντας ἀειράμενος πελέκεας[[ 23.856; ἄρατο νίκαν 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 2.5; ἠρμένοι νίκην 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.2 ὄγκον ἄρασθαι to be puffed up, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 129; θαυμαστὸν ὄγκον ἀράμενοι τοῦ μύθου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 277b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.3 raise, lift, τύπωμα ἠρμένοι χεροῖν[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 54] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κανοῦν αἴ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 850; βοῦς “IG” 22.1028.28, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 27.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥόθιον raise a surging cheer, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 546; Σαμόσατα ἀράμενος μετέθηκεν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 24] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀείρεσθαι τὰ ἱστία hoist sail, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.56, compare 94. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.4 raise, stir up, νεῖκος ἀειράμενος[[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 90, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 986, 991] Refs 6th c.BC+]; begin, undertake, πόλεμον[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supp..” 342, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.132, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.60, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.5] Refs 5th c.BC+] (passive, πόλεμος αἴρεται[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1188); κίνδυνον 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.63] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φυγὴν αἴρεσθαι take to flight, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 481, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 54. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.5 take upon oneself, undergo, πόνον[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 907; πένθος [prev. author] “OT” 1225; βάρος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 473. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.6 absolutely, βαρὺς ἀ. slow to undertake anything, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.150. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.7 take away, remove, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1201] Refs 5th c.BC+]; hence, kill or destroy, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.4, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 19.1.3; πόλιν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.23. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__V passive, to be suspended, hang, [μάχαιρα] πὰρ ξίφεος μέγα κουλεὸν αἰὲν ἄωρτο[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.272, 19.253. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__V.2 in Medicine texts, to be swollen, [σπλὴν] ἀερθείς[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.61; μαζοὶ ἀείρονται [prev. work] 2.174.] Refs 5th c.BC+]
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