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ἀνατέλλω , poet. ἀντ- , aor. ἀνέτειλα: pf. part.
A.“ἀνατεταλκός” Plb. 9.15.10:—make to rise up, τοῖσιν δ᾽ (sc. ἵπποις）“ ἀμβροσίην ἀνέτειλενέμεσθυ” Il.5.777; “Αἴγυπτος . . Δήμητρος ἀντέλλει στάχυν” A.Fr.300, cf. LXX Ge.3.18; ὕδωρ ἀ. make water gush forth, Pi.I.6(5).75; “τὸν ἥλιον” Ev.Matt.5.45:—so in Pass., φλὸξ ἀνατελλομένα a flame mounting up, Pl.Ion4(3).83.
2. bring forth, give birth to ἄντειλας Διόνυσον ib.7(6).5; “ἰούλους” A.R.2.44: of events, μυρί᾽ ἀπ᾽ α<*>σχρῶν ἀνατέλλοντα S.Ph.1139.
II. intr., rise, appear above the horizon, of any heavenly body, as sun and moon, Hdt.2.142, S.OC1246, Ar.Nu. 754; “πρὸς ἠῶ τε καὶ ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα” Hdt.1.204, 4.40; also of constellations, A.R.3.959; “ἠὼσἀντ.” Id.2.1007; dist. from ἐπιτέλλω (q.v.), Ptol.Alm.8.4; cf. ἀνατολή.
b. = ἐπιτέλλω, of the Pleiades, Theoc. 13.25.
2. of a river, take its rise, ἐκ ταύτης [γῆς λίμνης] Hdt.4.52, cf. Ael.NA14.16, etc.
b. of persons, originate, “ἐξ Ἰούδα ἀνατέταλκεν ὁ κύριος” Ep.Heb.7.14.
3. grow, of hair, “ταρφὺς ἀντέλλουσα θρίξ” A.Th.535; of teeth, Arist.HA501b29; spring up, of plants, Thphr.HP3.1.6, al.; cf. “ἀνατολή” 11.
4. of mountains, rise, A.R. 1.501; but, appear on the horizon, ib.601.
5. rise up, ἀνέτειλε σωτήρ prob. in Epigr.Gr.978 (Philae).
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 (18):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 535
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.204
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.142
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.40
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.52
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.777
    • New Testament, Matthew, 5.45
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1246
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1139
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.501
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.601
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.1007
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.44
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.959
    • Polybius, Histories, 9.15.10
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 754
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 3.18
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 14.16
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