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===verb transitive===

[[support with food]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρέφειν]], [[prose|P.]] [[διατρέφειν]] ([[Demosthenes|Dem.]] 419), [[verse|V.]] [[φέρβειν]].

maintain (an [[army]] [[fleet]], etc.): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[τρέφειν]], [[βόσκειν]] ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]] 7, 48, but rare [[prose|P.]]), [[verse|V.]] [[φέρβειν]].

[[keep]], [[preserve]]: [[συντηρέω]] (keep or preserve closely, keep close, observe strictly), [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[σῴζειν]], [[σώζειν]], [[σῴζω]], [[σώζω]], [[διασῴζειν]], [[διασώζειν]], [[διασῴζω]], [[περιστέλλειν]], [[φυλάσσειν]], [[διαφυλάσσειν]]; see also [[defend]].

[[observe]], maintain: [[διατηρεῖν]], [[διατηρέω]] (τὴν ἐλευθερίαν Decr. ap. D.18.184). 

[[cling to]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι]] (gen.).

[[maintain]] ([[silence]], etc.): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἔχειν]].

[[keep up]] (a [[war]], etc.): [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ἀνέχειν]].

[[maintain]] (a [[feeling]]): [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἔχειν]], [[τρέφειν]] ([[Plato]]), [[φυλάσσειν]].

[[maintain]] (a [[cause]]), [[be friendly to it]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[εὐνοεῖν]] (dat.); see [[support]].

Absol., [[maintain by argument]]: [[prose|P.]] [[ἰσχυρίζεσθαι]], [[διισχυρίζεσθαι]], [[διαμάχεσθαι]].

[[maintain one's ground]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[μένειν]] (absol), [[ἀντέχειν]] (absol.), [[καρτερεῖν]] (absol.).

[[maintain oneself]], [[make a living]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[ζῆν]], [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[διαζῆν]], [[prose|P.]] [[βιοτεύειν]], [[verse|V.]] [[συλλέγειν βίον]].

[[hold out]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀντέχειν]].
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