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ἐγκολπ-ίζω ,
A.form a bay, “ἠϊὼν ἐγκολπίζουσα” Str.5.4.5.
2. go into or follow the bay, Id.9.5.22.
3. inject into the vagina, Aët.1.126.
II. Med., with pf. Pass., take in one's bosom, “ὥσπερ ἑρπετὰ τοὺς ἀπορρήτους λόγους” Plu.2.508d, cf. Plot. 1.4.6; embrace, “θεὸς ἐγκεκόλπισται τὰ ὅλα” Ph.1.425; περίοδος πολλοὺς ἀγκῶνας ἐγκολπιζομένη a period embracing many turns of expression, D.H.Dem.4 (vulg. ἐγκαλλωπιζομένη）; [ἰχθῦς] ἐ. τῇ σαγήνῃ to catch fish in the belly of the net, Alciphr.1.18.
2. conceive, Porph.Gaur.5.4.
3. embrace in a bay, “ἄκρα πολὺν-ομένη λιμένα” Dion.Byz.53.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (3):
    • Strabo, Geography, 5.4.5
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.5.22
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 4
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