previous next
εἰσδύνω , and Med. εἰσδύομαι (v. δύω): fut. -δύσομαι, with aor. 2 -έδυ_ν: pf. -δέδυ_κα:—
A.get or crawl into, “ἐς τὸν θησαυρόν” Hdt.2.121. β᾽; ψυχὴ ἐς ἄλλο ζῷον ἐσδύεται ib.123; εἰσεδύοντο εἰς τοὺς πόδας οἱ ἱμάντες the thongs entered into their feet, X.An.4.5.14; εἰς τὴν Ἀμφικτυονίαν εἰσδεδυκώς having wormed his way into the League, D.11.4.
2. c. acc., go into, enter, “ἀκοντιστὺν ἐσδύσεαι” Il.23.622; “ὁ ψὴν τὴν βάλανον ἐσδύνων” Hdt.1.193; “ἄκακον..τρόπον εἰσδύς” having put on.., Anaxil.33.3.
3. folld. by relat., οὐκ εἶδεν οὗ γῆς εἰσέδυ saw not into what part of the earth she entered, E.IA1583.
II. of feelings, δεινόν τι ἐσέδυνέ σφι great fear came upon them, Hdt. 6.138; “εἰσέδυ με..οἴστρημα καὶ μνήμη κακῶν” S.OT1317; [ἡ ἀλήθεια] “εἰς τὰς ψυχὰς εἰσδύεται” Plb.13.5.5; “λύπη εἰσδύνουσα” Andronic. Rhod. P.571M.
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (9 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Demosthenes, Reply to Philip, 4
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 1583
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.138
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.193
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.121
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.622
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1317
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.5.14
    • Polybius, Histories, 13.5.5
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: