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ἐμπελ-άζω ,
A.bring near, δίφρους ἐμπελάσαντες having brought up the chariots, Id.Sc.109:—Pass., come near, approach, “κοίτης” S.Tr.17.
II. intr. in Act., approach, c. dat., “ἐμπελάσειν πυκινῷ δόμῳ” h.Merc.523; “εἴδωλα ἐ. τοῖς ἀνθρώποις” Democr. 166; ποῦ δ᾽ ἐμπελάζεις τἀνδρί . . ; S.Tr.748; “τῆ ἀκοῇ” Arist.Mu.395a19: abs., ib.b28, Porph.Abst.2.22; “κρήνης μηδὲ σχεδὸν ἐμπελάσειας” Orph.Fr.32a.
III. in Pass., wrongly used for “ἐμπαλάσσομαι, τοῖσι αὐτοῖσι” Hp.Ep.17; “ἀλλήλοις” D.C.36.49, 62.16; “αὑτοῖς” Id.72.19.
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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