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ἀνακρού-ω , poet. ἀγκρ- ,
A.push back a gate-pin, “βάλανον” Aen.Tact.18.6; stop short, check, “ἵππον χαλινῷ” X.Eq. 11.3; back horses, “τὸ ζεῦγος” Plu.Alc.2:—Pass., Them. in Ph.130.25.
2. ἀπὸ χερσοῦ νῆα . . ἀνακρούεσκον thrust her off from shore, A.R.4.1650; throw up, “δίσκον” Philostr.Her.2.5.
II. in Med., ἀνακρούεσθαι πρύμνην put one's ship astern, by backing water, Ar.V. 399, cf. D.S.11.18; or ἀνακρούεσθαι alone, Th.7.38,40; [“ἐπὶ] πρύμνην ἀ.” Hdt.8.84; but νῆας ἀ., simply row back, Tryph.523: metaph., τὸν λόγον πάλιν ἀ. put back and make a fresh start, Pl.Phlb.13d; “παῦε . . μικρὸν ἀνακρουόμενος” Luc.Nigr.8; “ὥσπερ ἁρμονίαν ἐκλελυμένην ἀ. αὖθις ἐπὶ σώφρονα νόμον καὶ βίον” Plu.Cleom.16.
2. in Music, strike up, Theoc.4.31: hence, begin a speech, Plb.4.22.11.
III. ἀνακρούειν χεροῖν, = ἀνακροτεῖν, Autocr.1.
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 (9):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 399
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.18
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.84
    • Plato, Philebus, 13d
    • Plutarch, Alcibiades, 2
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.38
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 11.3
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1650
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.22.11
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