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ἐμ-φράσσω , Att. ἔμ-ττω , pf. ἐμπέφρα^κα Sch.Ar.Nu.1240: fut. Pass.
A.“-φραχθήσομαι” LXXMi.5.1 (4.14): aor. 2 part. Pass. “ἐμφρα^γείς” Ph.Fr.41 H.:— bar a passage, stop up, block up, “τὸ μεταξύ” Th.7.34; “τοὺς ἔσπλους” Id.4.8; “ἐ. συγκλείουσά τε” Pl.Ti.71c; “ἐ. τὸ στόμα” D.19.208; “ἐ. τὰς ὁδοὺς τῶν ἀδικημάτων” Lycurg.124.
2. bar the passage of, stop, “τὰς κατὰ σοῦ τιμωρίας” Aeschin.3.223; “πᾶσαν παρείσδυσιν” Epicur.Sent. Vat.47 ( = Mctrod.49); “τὰς βοηθείας” D.S.14.56; “τὴν περὶ τὰ αὶσθητήρια ἀκρίβειαν” Ph.1.246; “τὴν φωνήν” Plu.2.606d.
3. Med. in act. sense, Nic.Al.191.
II. stuff in, φύλλα εἰς τὰς ὀπάς (v.l. φύλλοις τὰς ὀ.) Gp.13.5.3; τινί τι v.l. in Nic.Th.79 (Med.).
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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    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 223
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 208
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.56
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 124
    • Plato, Timaeus, 71c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.8
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.34
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 1240
    • Old Testament, Micah, 5.1
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