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ἀναιρέω,
perfect ἀνῄρηκα (ἀνειρ-uncertain in [[ “Comica Adespota” 18.6D.): (see. αἱρέω)] Refs]: — take up, ἀνελόντες ἀπὸ χθονός having raised the victim from the ground, so as to cut its throat (compare αὐερύω), [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.453. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 take up and carry off, bear away, especially prizes, ἀέθλια[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.736, compare 551; στεφανηφόρους ἀγῶνας ἀναραιρηκότα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.102; Ὀλύμπια ἀναραιρηκώς 6.36, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.1. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 simply, take up, παῖδα[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.61; τὰ ὀστᾶ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 take up bodies for burial, ἀνελόντες καὶ κατακλαύσαντες[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 386, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.9] Refs 5th c.BC+]; more common in middle, see below [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II make away with, destroy, of men, kill, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.66; πολλοὺς ἀναιρῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 990] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σὲ μὲν ἡμετέρα ψῆφος ἀ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 517; θανάτοις ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 870d; ἐκ πολιτείας τοιαῦτα θηρία ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 3.19, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 of things, abrogate, annul, ὅρους ἀνεῖλον πολλαχῇ πεπηγότας[[ 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 36.4; νόμον 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.39; διαθήκας 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 1.14; στήλας 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.103; ἀταξίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.35, etc.; ἐκ μέσου ἀ. βλασφημίας [prev. author] 10.36; τηλικαύτην ἀνελόντας μαρτυρίαν [prev. author] 28.5] Refs 6th c.BC+]; abolish, τὰς τῶν παρανόμων γραφάς[[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 29.4] Refs 4th c.BC+]:— passive, ἀνῄρηνται ὀλιγαρχίαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.1.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __II.3 destroy an argument, confute it, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially confute directly, opposed to διαιρέω (see. ἀναίρεσις 11.4)[[, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Sophistici Elenchi” 176b36, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἑαυτὸν confute oneself, [[ 6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “in Aristotelis Meteora commentaria - pars” 25.14. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__II.4 in argument, do away with, τὰς ὑποθέσεις[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 533c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; deny, opposed to τιθέναι, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.192, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III appoint, ordain, of oracle's answer to inquiry, ὁ θεὸς αὐτοῖς ἀ. παραδοῦναι[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.25; οὓς ἂν ὁ θεὸς ἀνέλῃ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 865d, compare 642d; ἀνεῖλεν θεοῖς οἷς ἔδει θύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.6] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also with accusative et infinitive, ἢν τὸ χρηστήριον ἀνέλῃ μιν βασιλέα εἶναι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.13, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, answer, give a response, ἀνεῖλε τὸ χρηστήριον [[[prev. passage]] Refs]; ἀ. τι περί τινος give an oracle about a thing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 914a; μαντείας ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 1.16] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [[ [prev. author] 21.51. ] Refs]
__B middle, take up for oneself, take up, pick up, οὐλοχύτας ἀνέλοντο[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.449; ἀσπίδα, ἔγχος, 11.32, 13.296; κυνέην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.84; δίκτυα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 602b9] Refs 8th c.BC+]; achieve, win, ἀ. τὴν Ὀλυμπιάδα, τὴν νίκην, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.70, 103, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.47] Refs 5th c.BC+]; generally, ἀ. ἐπιφροσύνας take thought, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.22; εὐδαιμονίαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.56, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 281] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in bad sense, ὄνειδος σπαργάνων ἀ.[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1035] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἴ σ᾽ ἀνελοίμην if I should take thee into my service, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.357] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σῖτα ἀ. get forage, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.128] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποινὴν τῆς Αἰσώπου ψυχῆς ἀ. exact vengeance for.., [[ [prev. author] 2.134. ] Refs]
__B.2 take up and carry off, snatch, κούρας ἀνέλοντο θύελλαι[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.66; ἀναιρούμενος οἴκαδε φέρειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 914b] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀνείλατο (for the form[[compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus) δαίμων “epigram Gr.” 404.1. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__B.3 take up for burial [[compare (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.4), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.14, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.97, etc.; πατέρων ἀρίστων σώμαθ᾽ ὧν ἀνειλόμην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1167; τὰ ὀστέα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.41 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the ashes of the dead, πυρὸς ἀ. ἄθλιον βάρος[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1140 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of one still living, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1616, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.13; τοὺς ναυαγούς [prev. work] 1.7.4, compare 11; τοὺς δέκα στρατηγοὺς τοὺς οὐκ ἀνελομένους τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ναυμαχίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 32b] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, ἀναιρεθέντων τῶν νεκρῶν.. ὑγιὴς ἀνῃρέθη[[ [prev. author] “R.” 614b, +others ] Refs]
__B.4 take up in one's arms, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.8] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, take up new-born children, own them, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 36, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 531] Refs 5th c.BC+]; take up an exposed child, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 159, compare “BGU” 1110, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.5 conceive in the womb, with accusative, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.108, 6.69. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.6 take up money at interest, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.17. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.7 take up a lease, [[ “Michel” 1359 (from Chios). compare “BCH”_7.204. ] Refs]
__B.8 withdraw money from a bank, etc., αὐτὸς ἀνελέσθω[[ “IG” 5(2).159. ] Refs]
__B.II take upon oneself, undertake, πόνους[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.108] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόλεμόν τινι war against one, [[ [prev. author] 5.36; πολέμους ἀναιρούμεσθα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 492, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.7; ἀ. ἔχθραν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 233c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.20] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. δημόσιον ἔργον undertake, contract for the execution of a work, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 921d, compare a, b, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.21. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 accept as one's own, adopt, γνώμην[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.16. ; τὰ οὐνόματα τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων ἥκοντα 2.52] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. φιλοψυχίην entertain a love for life, [[ 6.29. ] Refs]
__B.III rescind, cancel, συγγραφήν, συνθήκας, etc., [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 34.31, 48.46, “IG” 7.3171 (Orchom. _Boeotian dialect_, 3rd c.BC).] Refs 4th c.BC+]
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