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|Definition=[ᾰ], fut. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> -ξω <span class="title">Com.Adesp.</span>12.5D., etc.:—[[aid]], [[succour]], τινί <span class="bibl">Il. 2.363</span>, al. (never in Od.); in Hom. always, [[succour in war]], freq. c. dat. pers. et modi, μάχῃ Τρώεσσιν ἀ. <span class="bibl">1.521</span>, <span class="bibl">5.507</span>; ὄμοσσον ἦ μέν μοι . . ἔπεσιν καὶ χερσὶν ἀ. <span class="bibl">1.77</span>: generally, [[help]], [[succour]], λέχει Ἀλκμήνας <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>1.49</span>; νεότατι ἀ. [[θράσος]] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">P.</span>2.63</span>; θνητοῖς <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>269</span>, etc.; in mock Trag. passages of Com., γυναῖκες, οὐκ ἀρήξετ'; <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>696</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pl.</span>476</span>: rare in Prose, <span class="bibl">Hecat.30J.</span>, etc.; ὁ ναυτικὸς τῷ πεζῷ ἀρήξει <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.236</span>; τοῖς φίλοις ἀ. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.5.13</span>; ἀ. σὺν ὅπλοις τῇ χώρᾳ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Oec.</span>5.7</span>; to [[be good for]] a [[patient]] or his [[case]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Prorrh.</span>2.30</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Acut.</span>65</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> impers., c. inf., [[it is good]] or [[it is fit]], φέρειν ἀρήγει <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>2.94</span>; [[σιγᾶν]] ἀρήγει <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>571</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> c. acc. rei, [[ward off]], [[prevent]], [[ὄλεθρον]] [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in <span class="bibl">Batr.279</span>; ἄρηξον . . ἅλωσιν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>119</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">ἀ. τινί τι</b> [[ward off from]] one, φόνον τέκνοις <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>1275</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Tr.</span>777</span>. (Perh. cognate with Lat. [[rex]], Skt. rā´jati '[[rule]]'.)</span>