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κλείω (A), fut.
A.“κλείσω” X.An.4.3.20 (ἀπο-), Him.Or.22.7; rare fut. κατα-κλιῶ, v. κατακλείω: aor. “ἔκλεισα” X.An.7.1.36, Pl.Ep.348b: pf. “κέκλεικα” Thphr.Char.18.4, LXX 1 Ki.23.20, Luc.Tox.30: plpf. “ἐκεκλείκειν” App.Hann.47:*mdash;Med., aor. 1 ἐκλεισάμην （κατ-) X.Cyr. 7.2.5, (ἐγ-) Id.HG6.5.9:—Pass., fut. κλεισθήσομαι （συγ-) ib.5.2.19: aor. “ἐκλείσθην” D.23.110, etc.: pf. κέκλειμαι (later κέκλεισμαι f.l. in Ar.V.198) (v. infr.):—Ion. κληΐω (ἀπο-) Hdt.4.7: aor. “ἐκλήι_σα” Od. 24.166, (ἐξ-) Hdt.1.144, Ep. “κλήι_σα” Od.19.30; inf. “κληῗσαι” 21.382:— Med., fut.κληΐσσομαι cj. in Nonn.D.2.310:—Pass., aor. “ἀπ-εκληΐσθην” Hdt.1.165, 3.55, 58: pf. “κεκλήϊμαι” 2.121.β́, cf. 3.117, 7.129 (with vv.ll.): plpf. “ἀπ-εκεκλέατο” 9.50 codd.:—old Att. κλῄω (also Trag., cf. An.Ox.1.226), fut. “κλῄσω” Th.4.8: aor. “ἔκλῃσα” E.Or.1447 (lyr.), Th.2.4, Pl.R.560c: pf. κέκλῃκα （ἀπο-) Ar.Av.1262:—Med., fut. “κεκλῄσομαι” Id.Lys.1071: aor. “περι-κλῄσασθαι” Th.7.52:—Pass., aor. ἐκλῄσθην （κατ-, ξυν-) Id.1.117, 4.67, etc.: pf. κέκλῃμαι (v. infr.):— Dor. fut. “κλᾳξῶ” Theoc.6.32: aor. ἀπό-κλᾳξον, -κλᾴξας, Id.15.43, 77, “ἔκλᾳξε” Cerc.7.2, cf. κλάκαι (leg. κλᾷσαι）: κλεῖσαι, Hsch.:—Med., impf. “κατ-εκλᾴζετο” Theoc.18.5:—Pass., aor. “κατ-εκλᾴσθην” Id.7.84, but part. “συγκατα-κλαιχθείς” Chron.Lind.D.62: pf. 3pl. “κατα-κέκλα?νται” Epich.141.—Cf. κλῄζω (B). (κλείς):—shut, close, bar, Hom. (only in Od.), κλήϊσεν δὲ θύρας barred the doors, 21.387; ἐκλήϊσεν ὀχῆας shot the bars, so as to close the dooe door, 24.166; “κλῄειν πύλας” E. HF997, Pl.R.l.c., etc.; “κ. πηκτὰ δωμάτων” Ar.Ach.479; “κλεῖδες . . , αἷς τὰς θύρας κλείουσιν” Aristopho 7; “Ἐτεοκλέους . . κλῄσας στόμα” E. Ph.865; κανθώς Cerc.l.c.; “λάρυγγα” Gal.6.65:—Pass., “βλέφαρα κέκλῃται” S.Fr.711; “ψυχῆς ἀνοῖξαι τὴν κεκλῃμένην πύλην” Id.Fr.393; “κεκλειμένης σου τῆς παρρησίας οὐ κιγκλίσιν . . , ἀλλὰ . . ὀφλήμασι” D.25.28.
2. shut up, close, block up, “Βόσπορον κλῇσαι” A.Pers.723 (troch.); “κλῄσειν ταῖς ναυσὶν τοὺς ἔσπλους” Th.4.8:—Pass., Hdt.2.121.“β́; τὰ ἐμπόρια κεκλῇσθαι” Lys.22.14; “κεκλειμένων τῶν ἐμπορίων” D.2.16.
II. shut in, enclose, “πόλιν . . πύργων μηχανῇ κεκλῃμένην” A.Supp.956; cf. κλῄζω (B).
III. confine, “πλάστιγξ αὐχένα πώλων ἔκλῃε” E.Rh.304:— Pass., to be confined, “χέρας βρόχοισι κεκλῃμένα” Id.Andr.502 (lyr.): metaph., “ὅρκοις κεκλῄμεθα” Id.Hel.977.
2. deliver bound, “τινὰ εἰς τὰς τοῦ βασιλέως χεῖρας” LXX 1 Ki.23.20.
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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