Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἐπινέμ-ω

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2.. metaph. in Med., encroach, of fire, πῦρ ἐ. τὸ ἄστυ spreads over the town, Hdt.5.101; “πῦρ ἐ. τὴν γραφήν” Plu.Demetr.22: abs., “τὸ πῦρ ταχέως -νέμετο” Plb.14.5.7; “τὸ πῦρ ἐκώλυσαν . . ἐπινεμηθῆναι” D.S.17.26; also of disease, spread, τὸ ἐρυσίπελας ταχὺ πάντοθεν “ἐπενέμετο” Hp.Epid.3.4; “ἡ νόσος ἐπενείματο Ἀθήνας” Th.2.54, cf. Plu. 2.776f: abs., Aret.SA1.7: generally, of a piratical force, ἐπενείματο “τὴν θάλασσαν” Plu.Pomp.25; of an army, “ἐ. τὴν Γαλατίαν” Id.Caes.19; of a custom, spread among, “τινάς” Id.Demetr.18; approach, Μοισᾶν “ἀπὸ τόξων Δία . . βέλεσσιν” Pi.O.9.6.

b.. feed after, i.e. on the leavings of, “τινί” Arist.HA591b19.

c.. feed on, consume, “κόμην” Call. Dian.79; “δαῖτα” Nic.Al.510, cf. Plu.2.980d: abs., ib.293a.

d.. inhabit, Luc.Bacch.6.

3.. metaph. in Pass., to be encroached upon, as if by cattle straying over the bounds of their pasture, θῆλυς ὅρος “ἐπινέμεται” A.Ag.485 (lyr.).

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 (18):
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 485
- Demosthenes, Against Callicles, 11
- Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.26
- Herodotus, Histories, 5.101
- Homer, Iliad, 9.216
- Homer, Iliad, 24.625
- Homer, Odyssey, 20.254
- Plato, Laws, 843d
- Plato, Statesman, 264d
- Polybius, Histories, 14.5.7
- Plutarch, Caesar, 19
- Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 3.4
- Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.7
- Thucydides, Histories, 2.54
- Plutarch, Demetrius, 18
- Plutarch, Demetrius, 22
- Plutarch, Pompey, 25
- Lucian, Bacchus, 6

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