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ἐπεισ-άγω [α^],
A.bring in besides or over, esp. of bringing in a second wife, “ὁ παισὶν αὑτοῦ μητ ρυιὰν ἐπεισάγων” Com.Adesp.110.3; “ἐ. [τὴν Κλεοπάτραν] τῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι” Satyr.5; ἐ. ἑταίρας εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν (i.e. besides one's wife), And.4.14 (so in Med., “γυναῖκα ἄλλην ἐπεισάγεσθαι ἐφ᾽ ὕβρει Δημητρίας” PEleph.1.8 (iv B.C.)); τινὰς εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον dub. in CIG5187a25 (Ptolemais):—Pass., οἱ ἐπεισαχθέντες the newly made citizens, D.H.2.56, cf. Luc.Nav.33:—Med., introduce besides, “νέους ἑταίρους” Pl.R.575d, cf. Plt.293d.
2. bring in something new or strange, “ἔξωθεν” Aeschin.1.166, etc.; “ἐ. ἄλλην μηχανήν” Plb.32.5.11; “νόμον” introduce, Jul.Or.2.88d:—Med., “ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τόπους” Plb.10.28.3.
3. bring on besides, “χορείαν ἢ τράπεζαν δευτέραν” Antiph.174.1; bring next upon the stage, Aeschin.3.231; “δρᾶμα” Plb. 23.10.12.
4. Med., draw in, “τὸν οὐρανὸν ἐπεισάγεσθαι ἐκ τοῦ ἀπείρου χρόνον τε καὶ πνοὴν καὶ τὸ κενόν” Arist.Fr.201.
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 (10):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 166
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 231
    • Andocides, Against Alcibiades, 14
    • Plato, Republic, 575d
    • Plato, Statesman, 293d
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.28.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 23.10.12
    • Polybius, Histories, 32.5.11
    • Lucian, Navigium, 33
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 2.56
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