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[Meaning] to shake out, as also we [say].[1]
"For, not agitating [them?], he was following (?)Kalamis".[2]
Also [ac. attested is] a)nasei/w, [meaning] I persuade or I incite to battle.
"Agitating the Syracusans and declaring he would recover their freedom".[3]
Also [sc. attested is the aorist participle] a)nasei/sas, [meaning] having threatened. Demosthenes [in the speech] Against Aristogeiton [sc. uses the word].[4]

*)anasei/ein: e)ktina/ssein, w(s kai\ h(mei=s. ou) ga\r a)nasei/wn h)kolou/qei *kalami/da. kai\ *)anasei/w, a)napei/qw h)\ pro\s ma/xhn e)reqi/zw. o( de\ tou\s *surakousi/ous a)nasei/wn kai\ th\n e)leuqeri/an a)pokatasth/sein e)paggeila/menos. kai\ *)anasei/sas, a)peilhsa/menos. *dhmosqe/nhs kata\ *)aristogei/tonos.

[1] Glossing abbreviated from Photius, Lexicon alpha1655 Theodoridis.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable with certainty, though Adler (addenda) notes Maas's view [BZ 28 (1928) 421] that it perhaps comes from comedy; now registered as Kassel-Austin adespota fr. 916. The concluding noun is generally printed in lower case ('reed, twig'), but alternatively this is the sculptor of that name; OCD(4) s.v. Calamis (p.263).
[3] Diodorus Siculus 14.10.3, on the Spartan envoy Aristos/Aretes.
[4] Demosthenes 25.47 (web address 1 below).

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