A.to within, into : abs., μή πού τις ἐπαγγείιῃσι καὶ εἴσω lest some one may carry the news into the house, Od.4.775, cf. Hdt.1. III, al. ; so “εἴπατε δ᾽ εἴσω” Od.3.427 ; also εἴσω δ᾽ ἀσπίδ᾽ ἔαξε he brake it through to the inside, Il. 7.270 ; so “ὀστέα δ᾽ εἴσω ἔθλασεν” Od.18.96 ; “εἴσω ἐπιγράψαι τέρενα χρόα” Il.13.553 ; “ἐσσύμενοι εἴσω” Pi.P.4.135 ; “εἴσω κομίζου” A.Ag.1035 ; πέπληγμαι..ἔσω ib.1343 ; “εἴσω.. δεῦρ᾽ εἴσιθ᾽” Ar. Pl.231 ; ἡγεῖσθαι εἴσω, φεύγειν εἴσω, X.Cyr.2.3.21, 7.5.26 ; “παρακαλέσαι εἴσω” Id.An.1.6.5.
b. when a case follows, Hom. prefers the acc., “δῦναι δόμον Ἄϊδος εἴσω” Il.3.322 ; “πέρησε δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὀστέον εἴσω αἰχμή” 6.10, etc. ; “ἡγήσατο.. Ἴλιον εἴσω” 1.71, etc. ; more rarely with gen., “κατελθόντ᾽ Ἄϊδος εἴσω” 6.284, cf. 22.425 ; “ἐβήσετο δώματος εἴσω” Od.7.135, cf. 8.290 ; so in Prose and Trag., “Κύκλωπος ἔσω βλεφάρων ὤσας” E. Cyc.485 ; it generally follows its case, but precedes in Il.21.125, 24.155, Od.8.290.
2. with Verbs of Rest, = ἔνδον, inside, within, “εἴσω δόρπον ἐκόσμει” 7.13 ; “ἄντρον ἔσω ναίουσα” h.Merc.6 ; “ἔσω καθῆσθαι” A.Ch.919 ; “θακεῖν” S.Aj.105 ; “οὔτε πύργος οὔτε ναῦς ἔρημος ἀνδρῶν μὴ ξυνοικούντων ἔσω” Id.OT57 ; τὸ ἔσω μέτωπον the inner front, Th.3.21 ; “τὰ εἴσω νενοσηκότα σώματα” Pl.R.407d ; “εἴσω τὴν χεῖρα ἔχειν ἀναβεβλημένον” D.19.251.
b. c. gen., “μένειν εἴσω δόμων” A. Th.232 ; γλῶσσαν εἴσω πυλῶν ῥέουσαν ib.557 ; “εἴσω στέγης” S.Tr.202 ; εἴσω ξίφους within reach of sword, E.Or.1531 ; εἴσω τῶν ὅπλων within the heavy-armed troops, i.e. encircled by them, X.An.3.3.7, 3.4.26 ; εἴσω τῶν ὀρέων within, i.e. on this side of, the mountains, ib. 1.2.21 ; ἔσω τούτων inside of these people, i.e. farther inland, Th.2.100 ; εἴσω βέλους within bow-shot, Arr.An.1.6.8 ; τὰ δένδρα τῆς ὁδοῦ ποιεῖν εἴσω, i.e. inside, i.e. by the side of, the road, D.55.22 ; “εἴσω τῆς εἰρωνείας ἀφικνεῖσθαι” Id.Prooem.14 ; “πάντα εἴσω τῆς συμφορᾶς” Lib.Or.61.18.
III. for Comp. and Sup., v. ἔσω.