LogeionPerseus analysis of ἀνά:
ἀνά (on board): indeclform (prep)
LSJ entry
ἀνά
ἀνά [
ᾰνᾰ],
Aeol.,
Thess., Arc.,
Cypr. ὀν,
Prep. governing gen., dat., and acc. By apocope ἀνά becomes ἄν before dentals, as ἂν τὸν ὀδελόν; ἄγ before gutturals, as ἂγ γύαλα; ἄμ before labials, as ἂμ βωμοῖσι, ἂμ πέτραις, etc.; ἀμπεπλεγμένας IG 5(2).514.10 (
Arc.).
A. WITH GEN., three times in Od.,
in phrase ἀνὰ νηὸς βαίνειν go on board ship, 2.416,
9.177,
15.284;
ἂν τοῦ τοίχου, τᾶς ὁδοῦ, τοῦ ῥοειδίου, IG 14.352i40, ii 15,83 (
Halaesa).
B. WITH DAT., on, upon, without any notion of motion, Ep.,
Lyr., and Trag. (only lyr.), ἀνὰ σκήπτρῳ upon the sceptre, Il. 1.15,
Pi. P. 1.6;
ἂμ βωμοῖσι Il. 8.441;
ἀνὰ σκολόπεσσι 18.177;
ἀνὰ Γαργάρῳ ἄκρῳ 15.152;
ἀνὰ ὤμῳ upon the shoulder, Od. 11.128;
ἀν ἵπποις, i. e. in a chariot, Pi. O. 1.41;
ἂμ πέτραις A. Supp. 351 (lyr.); ἀνά τε ναυσὶν καὶ σὺν ὅπλοις E. IA 754;
ἂγ Κόσσῳ GDI 1365 (
Epirus).
2. up and down, throughout, ἀνὰ δῶμα Il. 1.570;
ἀνὰ στρατόν, ἄστυ, ὅμιλον, ib.384,
Od. 8.173,
etc.; ἂγ γύαλα A. Supp. 550 (lyr.); ἀνὰ πᾶσαν τὴν Μηδικήν, ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, Hdt. 1.96,
2.135,
etc.; ὀν τὸ μέσσον Alc. 18.3;
ἀνὰ τὸ σκοτεινόν in the darkness, Th. 3.22.
III. distributively with Numerals, κρέα εἴκοσιν ἀνʼ ἡμιωβολιαῖα 20
pieces of meat at half an obol each, Ar. Ra. 554;
τῶν ἀνʼ ὀκτὼ τὠβολοῦ that sell 8
for the obol, Timocl. 18;
ἀνὰ πέντε παρασάγγας τῆς ἡμέρας [they marched] at the rate of 5
parasangs a day, X. An. 4.6.4;
ἔστησαν ἀνὰ ἑκατόν μάλιστα ὥσπερ χοροί they stood in bodies of about 100
men each. ib.5.4.12;
κλισίας ἀνὰ πεντήκοντα companies at the rate of 50 in each, Ev.Luc. 9.14;
ἔλαβον ἀνὰ δηνάριον a denarius apiece, Ev. Matt.20.10;
in doctorʼs prescriptions, ἀνὰ ὀβολὼ β Sor. 1.63,
etc.: also ἀνὰ δύο ἥμισυ ζῳδίων amounting to 2 1/2 signs,
Autol. 1.10;
multiplied by, PPetr. 3p.198. IV. Phrases: ἀνὰ κράτος up to the full strength, i. e. vigorously, ἀνὰ κράτος φεύγειν, ἀπομάχεσθαι, X. Cyr. 4.2.30,
5.3.12;
ἀνὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον and ἀνὰ λόγον proportionately, Pl. Phd. 110d;
esp. in math. sense, Id. Ti. 37a,
Arist. APo. 85a38,
etc.; ἀνὰ μέσον in the midst, Antiph. 13,
Men. 531.19;
ἀνὰ μέρος by turns, Arist. Pol. 1287n17.
E. WITHOUT CASE as Adv.,
thereupon, Hom. and other Poets:— and with the notion of spreading all over a space, throughout, all over, μέλανες δʼ ἀνὰ βότρυες ἦσαν all over there were clusters, Il. 18.562,
cf. Od. 24.343:—but ἀνά often looks like an Adv. in Hom.,
where really it is only parted from its Verb by tmesis, ἀνὰ δʼ ἔσχετο; ἀνὰ δʼ ὦρτο (for ἀνῶρτο δέ)
; ἀνὰ τεύχεʼ ἀείρας (for τεύχεα ἀναείρας),
etc.