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ἐν-σείω , pf.
A.“ἐνσέσεικα” BGU136.11 (ii A. D.):—brandish or hurl at, c. acc. rei, “ἐ. βέλος κεραυνοῦ” S.Tr.1087; ὀξὺν δι᾽ ὤτων κέλαδον ἐ. πώλοις drive a shrill sound into their ears, Id.El.737; “ἐνέσεισε . . μετανιπτρίδα” Philetaer.1.
2. c. acc. pers., plunge in, drive into, “ἐ. τινὰ ἀγρίαις ὁδοῖς” S.Ant.1274; ἑαυτοὺς τῇ ἐπιτροπῇ BGUl.c.; “ἑαυτὸν τῇ ἑστίᾳ” Luc.Asin.31; “σπινθῆρας πυρὸς ὑγιαίνοντι σώματι” Gal.7.182; “οἷ κακῶν σαυτὴν ἐνέσεισας” Alciphr.3.27; “τὸν Ἀρχίαν εἰς τὸν πότον” Plu.2.588b; “εἰς βάραθρον ἐ. τινά” Luc.Merc.Cond.30; “ἐ. τὴν πόλιν εἰς πόλεμον” Plu. Phoc.23; ἐ. χιόνα εἰς τὸν ἄκρατον Machoap.Ath.13.579f:—Pass., εἰς ὠνήν to be jockeyed into a purchase, Hyp.Ath.26.
b. c. acc. rei, loosen, damage, “μέρος τοῦ χάρακος” BGU1215.15 (iii B. C.).
3. Pass., to be interpolated, Sch.Il.23.104.
4. shake, jar, Hp.Off.25 (Pass.); ἐ. βάσιν jar one's foot, Luc.Ocyp.9.
5. dash to the ground, “νήπια” LXX 4 Ki.8.12.
6. Pass., “ἐνσεσεισμένη” broken by age, Com. Adesp. 1001.
7. metaph., shake thoroughly, Pass., “ἐνσείσθητι” Arr. Epict.3.14.3.
II. intr., rush upon, attack, [“τινὶ ναυσὶ] πλαγίαις” D.S. 13.40; “εἰς τὰς ναῦς” Id.14.60; “τοῖς πολεμίοις κατὰ τὸ δεξιὸν κέρας” D.H. 9.16, cf. Plu.Alex.60; “πόνοι ἐ. εἰς ὀσφύν” shoot, Ruf.Ren.Ves.1.3:— Med., jostle, Arr.Epict.4.4.24, v.l.in Epict.Ench.4:—Pass., “τοῖσκιόσιν ἐνσεισθείς” J.AJ5.8.12.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.40
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.60
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.104
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 5.8.12
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 8.12
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 1274
    • Sophocles, Electra, 737
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 1087
    • Epictetus, Enchiridion, 4
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 60
    • Hippocrates, De officina medici, 25
    • Plutarch, Phocion, 23
    • Lucian, De mercede, 30
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.16
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