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ἐμβι^β-άζω , Att. fut. -βιβῶ, causal of ἐμβαίνω,
A.set in or on, “τινὰ ὡς εἰς ὄχημα” Pl.Ti.41e; “ἐ. εἰς ἴχνος” Id.Tht.193c:—Pass., to be put into, take a bath, Herod.Med. ap. Orib.10.37.16.
2. put on board ship, cause to embark, ἄνδρας ἐς κελήτιον (v.l. for ἐσ-) Th.1.53; “εἰς πλοῖα” X.An.5.3.1; “ἐ. ναυσίν” Plu.Ant.7, cf. Charito 8.3: abs., put on board, X.An.5.7.8, etc.:—Med., “ἐμβιβασάμενος αὐτοὺς εἰς τὰς ναῦς” Id.HG5.1.19.
3. lead, guide to a thing, “εἰς τὸ λῷστον” E.HF856; “εἰς τὴν δικαιοσύνην τοὺς οἰκέτας” X.Oec.14.4; “εἰς λόγους” D.19.97; “εἰς ἀπέχθειαν” Plb.16.38.1; “εἰς μέτρα ἐ. χρησμούς” Philostr.VA6.11; “τὴν ἀπάδουσαν εἰς τὸ μέλος” Id.Im.2.1; τοῖς ἀνθρωπίνοις πάθεσιν τὸν θεὸν ἐ. Plu.2.416f.
4. set a dislocated joint, Hp.Art.7.
5. ἐ. τινὰ εἰς . . put in possession of . ., PFlor.55.31 (i A.D.), etc.
6. intr., “οἱ τῆς σταδιαίας πάλης ἐμβιβάζοντες” Philostr.VS1.22.4.
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 (15):
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 97
    • Euripides, Heracles, 856
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 193c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 41e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.53
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.3.1
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 5.7.8
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.1.19
    • Xenophon, Economics, 14.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.38.1
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 7
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 7
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.11
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.22.4
    • Chariton, De Chaerea et Callirhoe, 8.3
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