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ἐμβαίνω , fut. -βήσομαι: pf. -βέβηκα; Ep. part. ἐμβεβα^ώς, -υῖα, Il. 5.199, Hes.Th.12, etc.: aor. 2 ἐνέβην; Ep. 3sg.
A.“ἔμβη” Od.4.656; dual imper. “ἔμβητον” Il.23.403:—step in, μή τις . . ἐμβήῃ let none step in (so as to interfere), 16.94: c. dat., “ποταμῷ οὐκ ἔστιν δὶς τῷ αὐτῷ ἐμβῆναι” Heraclit.91; “εἰς πηλόν” Id.5; “ἐμβέβακεν ἴχνεσιν πατρός” Pi.P. 10.12.
2. go on, go quickly, ἔμβητον, says Antilochus to his horses, Il.23.403; “ἔμβα” advance! E.El.113 (lyr.).
3. embark on a ship, “ἐρέται δ᾽ ἐν ἑκάστη πεντήκοντα ἐμβέβασαν” Il.2.720; “τότε δ᾽ ἔμβη νηΐ Πύλονδε” Od.4.656, cf. Il.1.311; ἐς ἕτερον πλοῖον ἐ. (v.l. for ἐσβ-) Hdt.2.29, cf. Th.1.18 (v.l.), Lys.2.40, Pl.Mx.243c: c. acc., λέμβον ἐ. Plb.30.9.11: abs., embark, E.Tr.455 (troch.), Ar.Ra.188, etc.: generally, step into, mount, “εἰς τὸ φορεῖον” Plu.Galb.26: pf., to be mounted on, “ἵπποισι καὶ ἅρμασιν ἐμβεβαῶτα” Il.5.199; “ἐπ᾽ ἀπήνης ἐμβεβώς” S.OT803: also c. acc., “Τροίαν Ἰλιάδ᾽ ἐμβεβαῶτα” E.Hec.922 (lyr.); “στέγην τήνδ᾽ ἐμβεβῶτες” Id.Cyc.92.
4. step upon, “τῷ δ᾽ ἐγὼ ἐμβαίνων” Od.10.164; “πεδίλοις ἐμβεβαυῖα” Hes.Th.12; “τοῖσδ᾽ ἁλουργέσιν” A.Ag.946; δαίμων ἐνέβη Περσῶν γενεᾷ trampled upon it, Id.Pers. 911 (anap.); “μὴ᾽ μβαινε τῷ δυστυχοῦντι” Men.Mon.356: abs., tread on one's toes, Thphr.Char.15.6; cf. βοῦς viii.
5. enter upon, ἐς τόνδε χρησμόν dub. in A.Ag.1567; “εἰς κίνδυνον” X.Cyr.2.1.15: c. acc., “ἐ. κέλευθον” E.Supp.989 (lyr.).
b. metaph., enter upon, embark in, “μεγαλανορίαις” Pi.N.11.44; “τῷ ἐπιτηδεύυͅατι” Pl.Phdr.252e; ἐν αὐτοῖς τοῖς δεινοῖς ἐμβεβηκώς embarked, engaged in . . , D.18.248; light upon, “εἰς ἀρχήν τε καὶ τύπον τῆς δικαιοσύνης” Pl.R.443c: abs., enter upon office, IG5(1).1390.31 (Andania).
6. rarely c. gen., step upon, “νᾶος” Alc.19; “γῆς ὅρων” S.OC400.
7. Poets, with acc. of the instrument of motion, “ὄχοις . . ἐμβεβὼς πόδα” S.Fr.672; ἐς ἄντλον ἐμβήσει (2sg.) “πόδα” E.Heracl.168.
8. to be fixed or fastened, “κατά τι” Il.24.81; to be fixed in, “εἰς ἐμπυελίδας” Hero Aut.2.3.
9. = ἐμβατεύω 11, SIG364.75 (Ephesus, iii B.C.).
II. causal in aor. 1 ἐνέβησα, make to step in, put in, “ἐν δὲ τὰ μῆλα . . ἐβήσαμεν” Od.11.4; “δίφρον ἐμβῆσαί τινα” E.Heracl.845, cf.Cyc.467; “ἐ. τὰν ἀρχάν” Schwyzer 485.9 (Thespiae, iii B.C.): metaph., ἐμβῆσαί τινα ἐς φροντίδα plunge him into anxiety, Hdt.1.46.
III. intr., step, march or dance, “ὀρθῶς” Pl. Alc.1.108c; “πρὸς ῥυθμόν” Luc.Salt.10.
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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