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ἐντήκω ,
A.pour in while molten, “μόλιβδον” D.S.2.8; “ἐ. μόλιβδον [τῇ κεφαλῇ]” Plu.CG17: metaph., ἐ. τέτανον τερπνόν v. l. in Ar.Lys. 553.
II. Pass., with pf. Act. ἐντέτηκα, to be dissolved in, “ὕδατι” Aët.9.42.
2. to be cast, “ἀνδριάντα χαλκῷ ἐντετηκότα” D.Chr.64.4: but usu.,
3. metaph., of feelings, sink deep in, “μῖσος ἐντέτηκέ μοι” S.El.1311, cf. Pl.Mx.245d; “τὸ δέος ἐντετηκὸς ταῖς ψυχαῖς” D.H.6.72; “ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἐντέτηκεν ἡ δεισιδαιμονία” D.S.1.83; ἐντήκεται γὰρ πλευμόνων ὅσοις ἔνι ψυχή (sc. Κύπρις) sinks in . . as the breath of life, S.Fr. 941.7.
4. of persons, οὐδ᾽ ἂν εἰ κάρτ᾽ ἐντακείη τῷ φιλεῖν should be absorbed by love, Id.Tr.463; “θρήνοισιν ἐντακεῖσα” Lyc.498.
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 (9):
    • Plato, Menexenus, 245d
    • Sophocles, Electra, 1311
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 463
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 941.7
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 553
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.83
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.8
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 64.4
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.72
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