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[Meaning] on high, to lie down and have ones legs up. Aristophanes [writes]: "now I take a rest starving with my feet lifted up."[1] Or sitting down on a high place. And again: "how at home when not at home?... His mind is out collecting versicles and not at home while he himself is propped up at home writing a tragedy."[2] He is mocking Euripides as syllogistic and providing the opposite of whatever he says. Such as, "the tongue swore, the mind was unsworn."[3] Such as [here]: he himself is inside but his mind gathering something from what is outside and and flying around. A Homeric way of speaking: for Homer distinguished souls from bodies when he said: "many strong souls, he made them spoils for the dogs."[4] Thus also Aristophanes: "his mind [is] outside, but he himself is inside propped up writing a tragedy."
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)naba/dhn kaqh=sqai, [meaning] to lie down raised up.[5]

*)anaba/dhn: e)f' u(/yous, a)/nw tou\s po/das e)/xein kai\ koima=sqai. *)aristofa/nhs: nuni\ de\ peinw=n a)naba/dhn a)napau/omai. h)\ e)pi\ u(yhlou= to/pou kaqh/menos. kai\ au)=qis: pw=s e)/ndon, ei)=t' ou)k e)/ndon; o( nou=s me\n e)/cw sulle/gwn e)pu/llia ou)k e)/ndon, au)to\s d' e)/ndon a)naba/dhn poiei= tragw|di/an. skw/ptei to\n *eu)ripi/dhn w(s sullogistiko\n kai\ o(\ a)\n le/gh|, to\ e)nanti/on pa/lin kataskeua/zonta. oi(=on, h( glw=ss' o)mw/mox', h( de\ frh\n a)nw/motos. oi(=on au)to\s me\n e)/sw e)sti/n, o( de\ nou=s au)tou= sullogi/zetai tw=n e)/cw ti kai\ metewri/zetai: *(omhrikw=s: *(/omhros ga\r diw/rise ta\s yuxa\s pro\s ta\ sw/mata ei)pw/n: polla\s d' i)fqi/mous yuxa/s: au)tou\s d' e(lw/ria teu=xe ku/nessin. ou(/tws kai\ *)aristofa/nhs. o( nou=s me\n e)/cw, au)to\s d' e)/ndon a)naba/dhn poiei= tragw|di/an. kai\ *)anaba/dhn kaqh=sqai, mete/wron kaqe/zesqai.

The headword is an adverb; see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 1123 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[2] Aristophanes, Acharnians 397-400 (web address 2 below), with scholion; cf. omicron 868.
[3] Euripides, Hippolytus 612 (web address 3 below); cf. eta 63.
[4] Homer, Iliad 1.3-4. See web address 4 below.
[5] So too Photius, and cf. Hesychius.

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