A.“ἐμπέπλεχα” Hp. Oss. 17, “ἐμπέπλεκα” Call.Iamb.1.352, v.l. in Hp.l.c.: fut. Pass. “ἐμπλα^κήσομαι” LXXPr.28.18:—plait or weave in, entwine, χεῖρα ἐ. entwine one's hand in another's clothes, so as to hold him, E.Or.262; εἰς ἀρκυστάταν μηχανὰν ἐμπλέκειν παῖδα ib. 1421 (lyr.); τῇ καλλίστῃ τέχνῃ τοὔνομα ἐ. connect the name with . ., Pl.Phdr.244c; “ποιηταὶ τοιαῦτα ἐμπλέκοντες καὶ συγκυκῶντες” Id.Lg.669d; “ἐ. τὴν ἡδονὴν εἰς τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν” Arist.EN1153b15; ποίῃ ἐνιπλέξω σε (sc. ἀοιδῇ); Call.Del.29; “ἐ. τινὰ εἰς φιλίαν τινός” Plb.27.7.11 :—Pass., to be entangled in a thing, “πλεκταῖσιν αἰώραισιν ἐμπεπλεγμένην” S.OT1264; “ἡνίαισιν ἐμπλακείς” E.Hipp.1236; “ἐν δεσμοῖσιν ἐμπεπλεγμένη” Ar.Th.1032; “εἰς δίκτυον ἄτης ἐμπλεχθήσεσθε” A.Pr.1079: metaph., to be involved, ἐν πόνοις, ἐν κακοῖς ἐμπλακῆναι, Pl.Lg.814e, Isoc.8.112; “εἰς ἀσχολίας βαθυτέρας τῶν ἐγκυκλίων” Epicur.Ep.1p.35U.; “εἰς τὰ κατὰ τὴν Σικελίαν” Plb.1.17.3; form a connexion with, “ἔθνει” Id.24.6.1; “γυναικὶ ἐμπλακείς” D.S. 19.2; εἴς τινα Vett. Val.118.4; of troops, to be incorporated with hoplites, Ascl. Tact.6.1; but also “ἐμπλεκέντες τινί” having had a scuffle with . ., PTeb.39.17 (ii B.C.).
ἐμπλέκ-ω , Ep. ἐνιπλέκω , pf.
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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