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ἐπαιωρέω ,
A.keep hovering over another, στέφανον καρήνῳ, πέτρον καρήνων, Nonn.D.5.132, 4.456; keep floating in, “ἐ. πτερὸν ἠερι πολλῷ” Epigr.Gr.312.5 (Smyrna): metaph., “ἐ. [εὐτυχίαις] βίον” AP7.645 (Crin.).
II. Pass., hover over or on the surface, float upon, “ἐπανθισμὸς ἐ. χαλκείοις” Dsc.5.92, cf. 75; ἐλπίσιν ἐπαιωρούμενοι buoyed up by . ., Luc.Alex.16; ἐπαιωρεῖσθαι πολέμῳ hang over it, conduct it remissly, Plu.Pel.29; in Hp.Art.75, of one who throws his whole weight upon another, during a surgical operation.
2. overhang, threaten, “σφιν ἐπὶ δέος ᾐωρεῖτο” A.R.1.639; “Σκύθαι τοῖς μέσοις ἐπαιωροῦντο” Them. Or.8.119c; “ξίφος αὐχέσι ἐ.” Hdn.5.2.1: c. gen., “τῶν πολεμίων” Plu. Fab.5: abs., “τὰ ἐκτὸς ἐπῃωρημένα” Ph.1.650.
3. rise, swell, “ὄγκος -εύμενος ἔξω” Aret.CA1.7.
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 (6):
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.639
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 75
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.7
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 5
    • Plutarch, Pelopidas, 29
    • Lucian, Alexander, 16
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