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ἐνειλ-έω ,
A.wrap in, “τι ὀθονίῳ” Dsc.5.72:—Med., “τινὰ κακοῖσι” Q.S. 14.294:—Pass., to be enwrapped, ἐν [τῇ γῇ] Arist.Mu.396a14; “ἐν τῷ ἱματίῳ” LXX 1 Ki.21.9(10); “τῃ λεοντῇ” Philostr.Her.12a.1; “ῥάκεσι” Artem.1.13; “ἱστίοις δοράτια ἐνειλημένα” Aen.Tact.29.6, cf. 31.7; “φύλλοις” Dsc.2.80.
II. metaph., engage, “ἐνίων αὑτοὺς ἐνειληκότων οἰκονομίαις” PTeb.24.62 (ii B.C.):—Pass., to be engaged, entangled in or with, “τοῖς πολεμίοις” Plu.Art.11; “ὅπλοις” Id.Brut.45; “ὥσπερ θηρίον ταῖς πάντων χερσίν” Id.Caes.66; ὥσπερ ἄρκυσιν ἐνειλημένους prob. for -λημμ-, J.BJ6.2.8; βρέφη-ημένα τὰς χεῖρας Artem.l.c.; come to blows with, PRyl.144.18 (i A.D.).
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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