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ἐφορμ-ίζω , (ὅρμος)
A.bring a ship to her moorings, bring to shore, in Med., “ἀμφὶ ταύτην θῖνα” AP7.636 (Crin.):—Med. and Pass., come to anchor, “ἐς [λιμένα]” Th.4.8:—in Med. also, = ἐφορμέω, -ορμιούμενος τοῖς πολεμίοις App.BC5.108.
II. intr. in Act., seek refuge in, [“ἔλαφοι] ποταμοῖσιν ἐφώρμισαν” AP9.244 (Apollonid.), cf. 254 (Phil.).
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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