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ὀχυ^ρ-όω ,
A.fortify, “τοὺς λιμένας” IG22.834.14 (iii B. C.); “πόλιν” Plb.14. 9.9, J.AJ12.7.7; “τὰ στόματα τῶν ποταμῶν” OGI90.25 (Rosetta, ii B. C.); “τείχη” LXX Je.28(51).53: metaph., τὸν τῆς εὐσεβείας λιμένα ib.4 Ma.13.7:—Med., in act. sense, X.Cyr.5.4.39, Plb.1.18.3:— Pass., “τὰ πρόπυλα κλείθροις ὀχυροῦται” Pl.Ax.371b, cf. OGI90.22 (Rosetta, ii B. C.); “πρόθυρα τείχεσι . . ὠχύρωτο” Arist.Mu.398a18.
2. ὠχυρωμένη besieged, LXX Jo.6.1.
II. metaph., confirm, “τὸ λεγόμενον” Phld.Rh.2.98 S.
III. constrain, τοὺς πονηρούς ib.148 S.
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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