[Meaning] to overthrow. "They insisted, through ambassadors, first that the anti-Megarian decree be overturned and the Greeks be left independent".[1]
*)anelei=n is also the term for taking up exposed babies and raising them;[2] and in short, whatever someone might take up.
"For, having overturned the law, it elected her"; Demosthenes says this in the [speech] Against Androtion;[3] but the quotation is transmitted in two forms, the one as written above, the other with au)th/n in the accusative instead of [dative] au(th|=.[4] And the one proffering the accusative has the following sort of rationale: having overturned this law, or indeed broken it, [the council] passed a vote about itself, [to the effect] that it should be crowned. But the [version] with dative [sc. must be understood differently]: having overturned this law, [the council] elected him for itself.[5]