A.sailing against, bearing down upon, attack or onset of a ship or fleet, Th.2.90, X.HG4.3.11, Plu. Lys.11, etc.; ποιεῖσθαι ἐπίπλουν, = ἐπιπλεῖν, Th.8.79; ἐ. ἐποιοῦντο τῇ Μιλήτῳ ib.30; ἐπὶ τὴν Σάμον ib.63; “τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις” Id.3.78; τῇ Πελοποννήσῳ ἑκατὸν νεῶν ἐπίπλουν ἐξαρτύοντες fitting out 100 ships for the expedition against . . , Id.2.17, cf. 56; “ἐ. θέσθαι” Plu.Aem.9; rarely of friends, sailing towards, approach, “ἐ. φίλιος” Th.8.102.
ἐπίπλοος (B), contr. ἐπίπλους , ὁ,
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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