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ἐνάπτω ,
A.bind on or to, “σπάργανά τινι” E.Ion 1490(anap.); “τι εἴς τι” X. Cyn.6.8, cf.Aeschin.Socr.41 (Pass.):—Pass., θώρηκος κύτει ἐνημμένῳ κάλλιστα fitted on, fitting beautifully, Ar.Pax1225.
2. Pass., of persons, to be fitted with, clad in, c. acc., λεοντέας ἐναμμένοι (Ion. for ἐνημμ-) Hdt.7.69; “διφθέραν ἐνημμένος” Ar.Nu.72; “παρδαλᾶς ἐνημμένους” Id.Av.1250, cf. Str.15.1.71 (v. l.), Luc.Herc.1:—also in Med., “ὁ Χορὸς . . ἐναψάμενος δάπιδας” Ar.Fr.253, cf. Luc.Tim.6.
II. kindle, set on fire, Ar.Pax1032 (Pass.):—Med., get oneself a light, Lys.1.14.
III. lay hands on, GDI1760.11,al. (Delph.).
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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