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ἐπι-κλίνω ,
A.put to, shut a door: hence, in Pass., once in Hom., ἐπικεκλιμέναι σανίδες closed doors, Il.12.121.
II.. bend towards, τὰ ὦτα ἐ. prick the ears, X.Cyn.6.15; ἐ. αὑτὸν πρός τι lean against . . , Paus.9.30.10; “ξίφει ἑαυτήν” Philostr.Her.19.11; ἐ. τὸ στόμα pull it open, Arist.PA660b22:—Pass., κεραῖαι ἐπικεκλιμέναι spars leaning on the wall and inclined at an angle to it, Th.2.76.
2.. cause to incline, “πρὸς ταῦτα τὰ πράγματα” D.3.8.
3.. intr., lean upon, “τοῖν χεροῖν” Pl.Amat.132b; incline towards, “ἐπί τι” Chrysipp.Stoic.3.175; “πρὸς τὸ χεῖρον” Dam.Pr.400.
4.. = ἐπικατακλίνω, J.AJ1.10.4.
III.. in Pass., lie over against or near, Σαλαμῖνος τᾶς ἐπικεκλιμένας ὄχθοις ἱεροῖς (sc.of Attica), E.Tr.801 (lyr.), cf.A.R.2.418.
IV.. Pass., also, recline upon, “τύλῃ” AP11.14 (Ammian.).
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):
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 3, 8
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 801
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.121
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 1.10.4
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.30.10
    • Plato, Lovers, 132b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.76
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 6.15
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.418
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