Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κατα-κλείω

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I. c. acc. pers., shut in, enclose, e. g. a mummy in its case, Hdt.2.86: freq. of blockading, τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἐς τὴν νῆσον κ. Th.1.109; “κ. ἑαυτοὺς εἰς ἔρυμα” X.Cyr.4.1.18; “κατακλείειν τοὺς γυμνῆτας εἴσω τῶν ὅπλων” Id.An.3.4.26; κ. εἰς πολιορκίαν, εἰς δυσχωρίας, D.H. 6.74, 11.26; “κ. τινὰ ἐν φυλακῇ” Ev.Luc.3.20, cf. OGI669.17 (Egypt, i A. D.): metaph., κ. ἑαυτὸν εἰς πολιτείαν, i.e. not to be a cosmopolite, X.Mem.2.1.13:—Pass., “ἐς τὸ τεῖχος κατακλῄεσθαι” Th.4.57; “ναυσὶ κατεκλῄσθησαν” Id.1.117, cf. X.An.3.3.7; ὅταν ἐς [νεφέλας] “ἄνεμος κατακλῃσθῇ” Ar.Nu.404; “εἰς μικρὸν τόπον -κεκλῃμένοι” Isoc.4.34; “διὰ τοῦ ζῆν . . κ. ἐν Ἀπόλλωνος ἢ Ἀθηνᾶς” Phld.D.1.17:—Med., shut oneself up, “ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις” X.Cyr.7.2.5; also κατεκλᾴζετο shut up the bride with oneself [in the bridal-chamber], Theoc.18.5:—Pass., “κατεκλᾴσθης” Id.7.84.

2. metaph., νόμῳ κ. shut up, i.e. compel, oblige, “ἂν . . πᾶσαν τὴν δύναμιν νόμῳ κατακλείσητε ἐπὶ τῷ πολέμῳ μένειν” D.4.33, cf. And.3.7, Antiph.190.15.

3. metaph., τῆς πόλεως εἰς κίνδυνον μέγιστον κατακεκλειμένης being reduced, D.26.11; “εἰς σπάνιν κατακλεισθῆναι” D.S.20.74: generally, confine, “ἐν τῷ κατὰ φύσιν πέρατι -κέκλειται τἀγαθόν” Metrod.Herc.831.8; “πᾶσαι αἱ ἐπιχειρήσεις εἰς μίαν ἀπόδειξιν -κλείονται” Phld.Rh.2.283 S.; κατακλείειν τὸ πᾶν τῆς τέχνης εἰς . . confine the whole business of art to . . , Hld.3.4.

II. c.acc.rei, shut up, close, “τὰς πυλίδας” Hdt.1.191; “τά ἱρά” Id.2.124, cf. 128 (Pass.); “τὸ ἐργαστήριον” Id.4.14; “τὸν δίφρον” X.Cyr.6.4.10; “εὑρὼν ἅπαντα κατακεκλῃμένα” Ar.Pl.206:—in Pass., of humours in the body, Hp.Loc.Hom. 27.

2. clamp down, make fast, of stones in masonry, IG7.3073.158(Lebad.); also κ. [τὴν δεξιάν] Luc.Prom.2.

3. close a speech, conclude, D.L.10.138; εἰς ἀπειλὴν κ. τὸν λόγον with a threat, D.H. 7.14, cf. A.D.Synt.234.17; οὐ κ. διάνοιαν give no complete sense, Id.Adv.119.6 (δ. shd. be supplied, Id.Synt.179.13); conclude an argument or inference, Phld.Sign.15,33.

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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- Andocides, On the Peace, 7
- Aristophanes, Clouds, 404
- Aristophanes, Plutus, 206
- Demosthenes, Philippic 1, 33
- Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 2, 11
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.191
- Herodotus, Histories, 2.128
- Herodotus, Histories, 2.86
- Herodotus, Histories, 4.14
- Herodotus, Histories, 2.124
- Isocrates, Panegyricus, 34
- Thucydides, Histories, 4.57
- Thucydides, Histories, 1.109
- Thucydides, Histories, 1.117
- Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.3.7
- Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.4.26
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.1.18
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 6.4.10
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.2.5
- Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.1.13
- New Testament, Luke, 3.20
- Lucian, Prometheus, 2
- Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.74
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 11.26
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 6.74
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.14

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