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ἐπικλάω ,
A.bend, in lit. sense only Pass., bend double, ἡ δεξιὰ περὶ “τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπὶ τὸ ἄνω ἐπικεκλασμένη” Luc.DDeor.11.2; ἐπικεκλ. τὸν “αὐχένα” Id.Rh.Pr.11; ὕδωρ ἐπικλώμενον broken water, Id.Tox.20; ἐπ᾽ “ἀλλήλων -κλωμένων τῶν κυμάτων” Alciphr.1.1; also, to be bruised, Paul.Aeg.6.117.
II.. metaph., move to pity, Plu.Per.37; ἐ. τινὰ “εἰς ὀ̂ικτον” Ael.NA10.36:—Pass., Th.3.67; ἐ. τῇ γνώμῃ ib.59; ὑπ᾽ “εὐνοίης” Hp.Ep.13; “πρὸς ὀ̂ικτον” Jul.Or.2.90d.
2.. shake the resolution of, “τινά” Plu.Oth.15:—Pass., ἐπικλασθῆναι τῇ γνώμῃ to be broken in spirit, lose courage, Th.4.37; τὸ ἐπικεκλασμένον τῶν μελῶν effeminate, unmanly music, Luc.Demon.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 (9):
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.67
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.37
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 37
    • Plutarch, Otho, 15
    • Lucian, Demonax, 12
    • Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, 11
    • Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, 20
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 11.2
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 10.36
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