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ἐναρμ-όζω and ἐνάρμ-ττω , Dor. aor. inf.
A.“-μόξαι” Pi.O.3.5, IG4.952.68 (Epid.):—fit or fixin, “ἔγχος σφονδύλοις” E.Ph.1413; “πλευροῖς βέλη” Id.HF179, cf. Ar.Lys.413; “ξύλα ἀλλήλοις” Thphr.HP5.3.5; “πήχεις” Luc. DDeor.7.4:—Pass., SIG694.37 (Elaea, ii B. C.).
b. Math., insert a mean term, Nicom.Ar.2.27:—Pass., Geom., to be inserted, Archim. Fluit.2.10.
2. metaph., fit, adapt, “Δωρίῳ φωνὰν ἐ. πεδίλῳ” Pi. l.c., cf. I.1.16; “τι εἴς τι” Pl.Lg.819c, D.H.Isoc.3; ἐ. αὑτόν make himself popular, Plu.Alex.52:—Pass., to be fitted, adapted, Plot.6.7.34:— Med., τὴν Δωριστὶ (sc. ἁρμονίαν（ ἐναρμόττεσθαι . . τὴν λύραν tune it to the Dorian mode, v.l. in Ar.Eq.989 (lyr.).
II. intr., fit into, “ἐς τὸ κοῖλον τῆς ἀγκύλης” Hp.Art.6; εἰς [γωνίαν] Archim.Aren.10, al.: metaph., suit, be convenient, “εἰς τὴν πρόληψιν” Epicur.Sent.37; “ἔν τινι” Ar.Ra.1202; “τινί” Pl.Lg.894c: abs., “τὸ ἐναρμόττον μέγεθος” Epicur.Ep. 1p.12U.
2. c. dat. pers., please, Plu.Them.5.
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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