ἐπανάστασις

A. rising up to go to stool: hence in pl., concrete, stools, Hp. Prorrh. 1.146.

2. rising up again, D.S. 18.31.

3. rising up against, insurrection, Hdt. 3.44,118, Th. 2.27, etc.; ἐγένετο ἡ ἐν Σάμῳ ἐ. ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου τοῖς δυνατοῖς Id. 8.21; ἐ. μέρους τινὸς τῷ ὅλῳ τῆς ψυχῆς Pl. R. 444b; παθῶν Hierocl. inCA 1p.418M.; opp. ἀπόστασις, D.H. 3.8, Sch.Th. 3.39.

b. concrete, ἐπαναστάσεις θρόνων rebellions (i.e. rebels) against the throne, S. Ant. 533.

II. rising up, swelling, Hp. Coac. 216; prominent growth, Thphr. HP 3.7.4; prominence on the head, Arist. HA 500a5; φλυκταινῶν Dsc. Ther. 9, cf. Sor. 2.18, Antyll. ap. Orib. 8.17.2.

III. metaph., rise in rhetorical tone, Demetr. Eloc. 278.