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εἰσπλέω , fut. -πλεύσμαι,
A.sail into, enter, “ἐς τὰ στενά” Th.2.86, cf. 89, etc.: poet. c. acc., E.IT1389: c. acc. et dat., “ὑμέναιον δόμοις εἰσέπλευσας” S.OT423.
2. abs., sail in, “ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερὰ ἐσπλέοντι” as one sails in, Hdt.6.33; “στόμα ναυσὶ ταῖς μεγίσταις ἱκανὸν εἰσπλεῖν” Pl.Criti.115d; “εἰσπλέοντας ἐκπλέοντάς τε” Pl.Com.183; “Μεγαρεῦσι μηδὲν ἐσπλεῖν” Th.3.51, cf. X.HG2.4.29; of corn, to be imported, D. 20.31.
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 (8):
    • Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 31
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1389
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.33
    • Plato, Critias, 115d
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 423
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.86
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.51
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.4.29
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