# ἀνάγω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ana-, “up”) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ná.ɡɔː/ → /aˈna.ɣo/ → /aˈna.ɣo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /a.ná.ɡɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /aˈna.ɡo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /aˈna.ɣo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /aˈna.ɣo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /aˈna.ɣo/

### Verb

ᾰ̓νᾰ́γω • (anágō)
* (active voice)
** (transitive) to lead up from a lower place to a higher
*** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1347
*** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 289
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.28
*** 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 525
*** 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 6C
*** (transitive) to lead up to the high sea, to take to sea, carry by sea
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.338
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.48
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.292
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.10
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.203
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.272
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.12
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.100
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.41
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.76
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 169
*** (transitive) to take up from the coast into the interior, especially from Asia Minor into Central Asia
**** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.272
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.119
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.4.6
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.6.1
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4.8
*** (transitive) to bring up, especially from the dead
**** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 626
**** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 521C
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 557
**** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1023
**** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 985
**** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 131
**** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 4.22
*** (transitive) to conduct
**** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 280
**** 415 BCE, Euripides, The Trojan Women 326
**** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.104
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.48
**** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.60
**** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 7:41
*** (transitive) to lift up, raise
**** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 866
**** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 533D
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.975C
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.541B
*** (in various senses)
**** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Diseases 3.15
**** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 3.25
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cleomenes 30
**** 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Leviticus 11.3
**** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 3
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Crassus 23
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1051A.25
**** 262 BCE – 190 BCE, Apollonius of Perga, Conics 2.49
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Nicias 18
** (transitive) to bring back
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.29
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.401
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 5.3
*** (transitive) to carry back, refer to its principles
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 626D
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1113B.20
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1113A.6
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 778B.1
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1040B.20
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Brutus 12
**** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 266.13
**** 412 CE – 485 CE, Proclus, Elements of Theology 21
**** 495 CE – 570 CE, Olympiodorus the Younger, Commentary on the Aristotle's Meteorology 326.33
**** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Adverbs 121.25
**** 50 CE – 250 CE, Apollonius Dyscolus, On Syntax 23.26
**** 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 10.15
**** 120 CE – 175 CE, Vettius Valens, Anthology 73.11
*** (transitive) to reduce a syllogism to the first figure
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 291B.1
**** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 46B.40
*** to rebuild
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Publicola 15
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 32
*** (transitive) to reckon or calculate
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Cimon 18
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Numa Pompilius 1
*** (intransitive) to draw back, withdraw, retreat
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.1.45
**** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.69
**** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 383
**** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 528A
* (middle voice, passive voice)
** (intransitive) to put out to sea, to set sail
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.478
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.137
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.30
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.138
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.152
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 626
*** (figuratively, intransitive) to put to sea, to make ready, prepare oneself
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Charmides 155D
**** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Eryxias 392D

#### Antonyms

* κατάγω (katágō)

#### Descendants

* Greek: ανάγω (anágo)

### References

* “ἀνάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἀνάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἀνάγω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἀνάγω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἀνάγω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* ἀνάγω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
* “ἀνάγω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G321 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* ἀνάγω in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften