A.keep back, restrain (v. infr. 11), “δέος ἴσχει τινά” Il.5.812,817, etc.; “ἴ. τινὰ ἀνάγκῃ” Od.4.558; “θυμὸν ἴ. ἐν στήθεσσι” Il.9.256; “Ζεὺς ἴσχεν ἑὸν μένος” Hes.Th.687; οὐδ᾽ ἔτι σηκοὶ ἴσχουσι (the calves) Od.10.413; [“πρὼν] ἴσχει ῥέεθρα” Il.17.750; ἵππους ἴ. 15.456, etc.; “ἶσχον βουλομένους τοὺς ἑπτὰ ἐς τὸ πρόσω παριέναι” Hdt.3.77; “μηδὲν ἡμᾶς ἰσχέτω” Ar.V.1264; οὐδέποτέ γ᾽ ἴσχει θύρα, prov. of those who keep open house, Eup.265; “ἴσχε στόμα” E.HF1244; “ἴσχε δακὼν στόμα σόν” S.Tr.976 (anap.); “τὸ ἴσχον τὴν πορείαν” X.An.6.5.13; χείμαρρον . . ἕρκεα ἴσχει ἀλωάων keep it back, Il.5.90: c. gen., ξίφος ἴ. τινός to keep it from him, E.Hel.1656; ἴ. τῆς ῥοῆς, τοῦ ἰέναι, Pl.Cra.416b, 420e: folld. by inf., “ἴ. τινὰ μὴ πράσσειν” E.IA661:—Pass., to be checked, Gal.UP15.3: also impers., ἐν τούτῳ <*>χετο here the matter stopped, X.An.6.3.9.
2. abs., ἴσχε hold, <*>ν, stop! A.Ch.1052, S.Ichn.95; of ships, put in, v.l. in Th.2.91; Pol<*> “ταῖς πόλεσι” Id.7.35, cf. A.R.2.390; of rivers, stop, Arr.An.5. 9.4:—in this sense Hom. uses Med. or Pass., “ἴσχεσθ᾽ Ἀργεῖοι, μὴ φεύγετε” Od.24.54, cf. Il.3.82; “ἴσχεο” check thyself, be calm, 1.214, 2.247, Od.22.356, etc.; keep quiet, 11.251: c. gen., ἴσχεσθαί τινος desist from a thing, 18.347, 24.323.
II. hold fast, hold, once in Hom., “[κανόνα] ἀγχόθι στήθεος” Il.23.762, cf. S.Aj.575, Ph.1111 (lyr.): metaph., keep, maintain, “εὐφημίαν” Id.Tr.178; ἐλπίσιν ἴ. τι ib.138; “γνώμαν” Id.Ph.853 (lyr.); “ἐπιστήμην λαβόντα ἴσχειν” Pl.Tht.198a; of outward matters, ὀδύνη ἴ. τὴν γαστέρα affects it, Hp.Nat.Mul.14; “τὸν αἶσ᾽ ἄπλατος ἴσχει” S.Aj.256 (lyr.); “αἱ ἄτομοι τὸν παλμὸν ἴσχουσι” keep up, Epicur.Ep.1p.8U.:—Pass., “φθόῃ ἴσχεσθαι” Isoc.19.11 (s.v.l., σχόμενον Blass); also τὸ ἰσχόμενον κατὰ διαφοράν that which is permanent in distinction, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.128.
III. after Hom., hold or have in possession, v.l. in Hdt.3.39, Th.3.58; have a wife, Hdt.5.92.β᾽; of women, ἴ. ἐν γαστρί or simply “ἴ.” to be pregnant, Hp. Epid.2.2.18, etc.; μετὰ τοῦτον ἴ. Κλεόμβροτον conceives Cl., Hdt.5.41: generally, like ἔχω, ἴσχε κἀμοῦ μνῆστιν S.Aj.520; λῆστιν ἴ. to be forgetful, Id.OC584; “ἄλγος ἴ.” Id.OT1031; γνώμαν ἴ., = γνῶναι, Id.El. 214 (lyr.); “ἴ. δοῦλον βίον” Id.Tr.302; “νοῦν” Pl.Smp.181d; “ἐπωνυμίαν” Id.Prm.130e; “χρώματα” Hp.Prog.12; “κακώσιας” Id.Art.61; receive, “[πεμπάδα]” SIG57.35 (Milet., v B.C.); ἰσχέτω δίκην καὶ ὑπεχέτω ib. 286.15 (iv B.C.), cf. IG5(2).357.23 (Stymphalus, iii B.C.): c. dupl. acc., “ἴ. τινὰ ξύνευνον” S.Aj.1301; “θεὸν οὐ λήξω προστάταν ἴσχων” Id.OT882 (lyr.).
2. have in it, involve, “ὄλβος ἴ. φθόνον” Pi.P.11.29; μετάστασιν ἴ. to be susceptible, capable of cure, Hp.Aph.5.7; “ἀνάληψιν μετ᾽ εὐπετείας” Pl.Ti.83e; to be worth, dub. l. in Plb.5.26.13; v. ἰσχύω 3.
3. intr., to be, like ἔχω, ἀπολέμως ἴσχοντες Pl.Plt.307e; “εὖ ἴ. τὸ σῶμα” Id.R.411c; “ὧδε” Id.Phlb.38c; “τοῖς πᾶσι χαλεπώτερον” Th.7.50.
