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ἐπικάμπ-τω ,
A.bend into an angle, “τὸν δάκτυλον” Arist. HA556b17; [“κλάδους] χερσί” Them.Or.21.249a; Archit., make an angle or return, IG22.1668.75:—Pass., bend or turn, “ἐς τὰ ἀριστερά” Hp.Oss.10; arch, “ὀφρὺς ἐπικεκαμμένη” Arist.PA671b33; of troops, advance the wings, so as to form angles with the centre and take the enemy in flank, X.Cyr.7.1.5, HG4.2.20, An.1.8.23; τὸ στόμα ἐπικεκαμμένον ἔχουσα [φάλαγξ] Ascl.Tact.11.1; also of a fleet, form a curved line so as to envelop the enemy, D.C.50.31.
2.. Act., ἐ. πρὸς ἔλεόν τινας move to pity, Lib.Decl.46.13:—Pass., abs., Ctes.Fr. 29.56, Lib.Or.6.38; “πρὸς τὸν ὀδυρμόν” Id.Loc.1.31.
II.. intr., to be bent, Arist.HA529a12.
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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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.8.23
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