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ἐγ-κλείω , Ion. ἐγ-κληΐω , Att. ἐγ-κλῄω , Ep. ἐνικλείω A.R. 2.1029:—
A.shut in, close, “ὅκως τὰς πύλας ἐγκληΐσειε” Hdt.4.78; “θύρα ἐγκεκλῃμένη” Pl.Prt.314d.
II. shut or confine within, ἑρκέων ἐγκεκλῃμένος (for ἐντὸς ἑρκέων κεκλῃμένος) S.Aj.1274; “δόμοις ἐγκεκλῃμένος” Id.Tr.579: generally, shut up, confine, “γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄσας ἔχει” Id.Ant.180; εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄοι φόβος ib.505; “στόμα ἐ.” E.Hec. 1284.
III. Med., shut oneself up in, X.HG6.5.9.
2. shut up with oneself, Luc.Alex.41.
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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