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εἰσφρέω , impf.
A.“εἰσέφρουν” D.20.53 : fut. -“φρήσω” Ar.V.892, -φρήσομαι (in same sense) D.8.15 : aor. I -έφρησα Plb.21.27.7, PLips.39.11 (iv A.D.) : impf. Med. “εἰσεφρούμην” E.Tr.652 ; cf. εἰσπίφρημι:— let in, admit, Ar. l.c. ; “στράτευμα” D.20.53 :—Med., bring in with one, E. l.c. ; also εἰσφρήσασθαι: καυχήσασθαι, μετὰ σπουδῆς εἰσενεγκεῖν, Hsch.
2. swallow, Arist.Mir.831b11.
II. intr, let oneself in, enter, Plb. l.c., Alciphr.3.53, Jul.Caes.315a.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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