A.muzzle, “οὐ φιμώσεις βοῦν ἀλοῶντα” LXXDe.25.4; shut up as with a muzzle, φ. τῷ ξύλῳ τὸν αὐχένα to make fast his neck in the pillory, Ar.Nu.592 (troch.); close, seal up, στόμα [ἄγγους] Asclep. ap.Gal.12.984: metaph., muzzle, put to silence, τινα Ev.Matt.22.34:— Pass., to be put to silence, be silent, φιμώθητι, πεφίμωσο, Ev.Marc.1.25, 4.39, cf. Luc.Peregr.15, Mim.Oxy.413.122; τινι by or because of a thing, J.BJ1.22.3, cf. 5.1.5; φιμοῦσθαι πρός τι to be mute in a matter, ib.Prooem.5, S.E.M.8.275.
φι_μ-όω ,
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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