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ἀναπίπτω , poet. ἀμπ- ,
A.fall back, A.Ag.1599, E.Cyc.410; lay oneself back, like rowers, Cratin.345, X.Oec.8.8; “ἀ. ὑπτία” Pl.Phdr.254b, cf. e; of riders, “ὑπτίους ἀναπεπτωκότας ἐλαύνειν” X.Eq.Mag.3.14.
2. metaph., fall back, give ground, Th.1.70; flag, lose heart, D.19.224; ταῖς σπουδαῖς (vulg. σπονδ-）“ ἀναπεπτωκέναι” D.H.5.53.
b. pf. part. ἀναπεπτωκώς lifeless, of style, “σχῆμα ἀ.” Aristid.Rh.2p.518S., al.
3. of a plan, to be given up, “ἀνεπεπτώκει τὰ τῆς ἐξόδου” D.21.163.
4. ἀ. ἀπ᾽ οἴκων to be banished from one's house, Poet. ap. Athenagoraspro Christo 22.
5. recline at meals, like ἀνάκειμαι, Alex.293, Com.Adesp.638, PPar.51.4, Ev.Marc.6.40, Luc.Asin.23.
b. take to one's bed in sickness, PMag.Leid.V.11.1.
6. recoil, of the arms of torsion-engines, Hero Bel.100.2.
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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    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1599
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