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στέλλω , Il.4.294, etc.: fut.
A.“στελῶ” S.Ph.640, Ep. “στελέω” Od.2.287: aor. “ἔστειλα” Th.7.20, Ep. “στεῖλα” Od.14.248: pf. “ἔσταλκα” Arr.An.2.11.9, (ἀπ-, ἐπ-) Isoc.1.2, E.Ph.863: plpf. “ἐστάλκει” Arr.An.3.16.6, (ἐπ-) Th.5.37:—Med., Il.23.285, etc.: fut. “στελοῦμαι” Lyc.604: aor. ἐστειλάμην, Ep. στειλ-, Il.1.433, S.OT434, etc.:—Pass., fut. στα^λήσομαι （ἀπο-) Aeschin.3.114 (v.l.), D.24.93; simple “σταλήσομαι” J.AJ2.4.2: aor. ἐστάλθην (in compd. ἀποσταλθέντες) GDI5186.4 (Crete), cf.Sch. Od.8.21; more freq. ἐστάλην [α^], Pi.O.13.49, Hdt.4.159, (ἐπ-) Th.1.91, etc.: pf. “ἔσταλμαι” Hdt.7.62, Pl.Lg.833d, etc.: plpf. “ἐστάλμην” Philostr. VA3.25, 3pl. “ἐστάλατο” Hes.Sc.288; ἐσταλάδατο and ἐστελάδατο dub.ll.in Hdt.7.89 (leg. ἐστάλατο):—make ready, “οὓς ἑτάρους στέλλοντα καὶ ὀτρύνοντα μάχεσθαι” Il.4.294; “οὔτε κέ σε στέλλοιμι μάχην ἐς κυδιάνειραν” 12.325; νῆα ς. rig or fit her out, Od.2.287, cf. 14.247; “πλοῖον” Hdt.3.52; “ναῦς τριάκοντα” Th.7.20; “τὰ ἐκ νεώς” S.Ph.1077: also στρατιήν, στόλον, στρατόν, fit out an armament, get it ready, Hdt.3.141, 5.64, A.Pers.177, etc.; “ᾧ δὴ τόνδε πλοῦν ἐστείλαμεν” S.Aj.1045: also στέλλειν τινὰ ἐσθῆτι furnish with, array in, a garment, Hdt.3.14; “χιτῶνι” S.Tr.612: c. dupl. acc., “στολὴν ς. τινά” E.Ba.827 sq.; “ς. τινὰς ὡς δεσποίνας” X.HG5.4.5; ς. ἕλκος dress it, Hp.VC14; bury, ἐνὶ γαίῃ ς. A.R.3.205:—Med., στεῖλαί νυν ἀμφὶ χρωτὶ . . πέπλους put on robes, E.Ba.821: c. dat., ἐσθῆτι στειλάμενοι having dressed themselves in . . , Luc.Philops.32: metaph., “ς. κιθάρην” Hermesian.7.2:—Pass., fit oneself out, get ready, ἄλλοι δὲ στέλλεσθε do you others prepare (to compete in the games), Il.23.285; “στρατὸν κάλλιστα ἐσταλμένον” Hdt.7.26, cf. 3.14, 7.93: c. acc. cogn., τὴν αὐτὴν ταύτην ἐστ. ib.62: c. dat., πρεπούσῃ στολῇ ἐστ. Pl.Lg.833d: folld. by a Prep., “ἐσταλμένος ἐπὶ πόλεμον” X.An.3.2.7; ἐς ἄγραν, ἐπ᾽ ἄγρην, Lyc.604, AP 7.535 (Mel.); “περὶ ὄργια” E.Ba.1000 (lyr.): c. inf., ἐστέλλετο ἀπιέναι he prepared to go, Hdt.3.124; “κινεῖν κώπας” E.Tr.181 (lyr.).
II. dispatch, send, “ἐς οἶκον πάλιν” A.Pr.389, cf. E.IA119 (lyr.), etc.; “ἐξ ἑνὸς στείλαντος” S.OC737:—Med. and Pass., set out, or (esp. in aor. 2 Pass.) journey, Hdt.1.165, 3.53, 4.159, 5.92.β́: c. acc. cogn., “ὁδὸν στέλλεσθαι” S.Ph.1416 (anap.), cf. A.R.4.296; “πρὸς θάλασσαν” E.Hel.1527; “ἐπὶ τὸν χρυσόν” Hdt.3.102; “ἐπὶ πλοῖα” X.An.5.1.5; “τούτων γὰρ οὕνεκ᾽ ἐστάλην” S.Aj.328; “ἴδιος ἐν κοινῷ σταλείς” Pi.O.13.49; “οἷπερ ἐστάλην ὁδοῦ” S.El.404; “οἴκαδε Τροίας ἄπο” E.Tr.1264; κατὰ γῆν (v.l. γῆς) X.An.5.6.5: abs., “στέλλου, κομίζου” begone! A.Pr.394: c. acc. loci, ὀμφαλὸν γῆς ς. E.Med.668; “μέλαθρα” Id.HF109 (lyr.); of things, to be sent, S.Tr.776: metaph. of speech, “ἀέρα ἐκπέμπειν στελλόμενον ὑφ᾽ ἑκάστων τῶν παθῶν” Epicur.Ep.1p.27U.
2. Act. intr. in sense of the Pass. (in Hdt. and Trag.), prepare to go, start, set forth, “ἔστελλε ἐς ἀποικίην” Hdt.4.147, cf. 148, 5.125, S.Ph.571,640: c. acc. cogn., “κέλευθον τήνδε . . ἔστειλα” A.Pers.609.
3. Med., set out upon a task, “στέλλεσθαι πρός τι” Pl.Phlb.50e; “ἐπί τι” Id.Sph.230b; ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο στελλώμεθα; Id.Lg.892e; “ἐπὶ θήρας πόθον ἐστέλλου” E.Hipp.234 (anap.); “ἐπὶ τυραννίδ᾽ ἐστάλης” Ar.V.487.
III. summon, fetch, bring a person to a place, S.OT860, cf. OC298, Ph.623,983; “ὑμᾶς ἔστειλ᾽ ἱκέσθαι” Id.Ant.165, cf. Ph.60,495; [ἐμπορίαν] Pl.Ep.313e:—Med., σ᾽ ἂν οἴκους τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἐστειλάμην I would have sent for thee . ., S.OT 434:—Pass., Id.OC550 (cj.).
b. ἡ ὁδὸς εἰς Κόρινθον στέλλει leads to Corinth, Luc.Herm.27.
IV. gather up, make compact, esp. as a nautical term, furl, take in, “ἱστία . . στεῖλαν” Od.3.11, 16.353; “στείλασα λαῖφος” A.Supp.723:—Med., “ἱστία μὲν στείλαντο” Il.1.433, cf. Call.Del. 320, Arist.Mech.851b8: abs., στέλλεσθαι (sc. ἱστία) Teles p.10 H., Plb.6.44.6; so ἐπιστολάδην δὲ χιτῶνας ἐστάλατο they girded up, tucked up their clothes to work, Hes.Sc.288, cf. A.R.4.45: abs., “στειλάμενος σιγᾷς” AP11.149.
2. check, Epicur.Ep.1p.7U.; repress, Ph.2.274, etc.:—Med., Plb.8.20.4; λόγον στειλώμεθα draw in, shorten our words, i.e. not speak out the whole truth, E.Ba.669; ς. τὸ συμβεβηκός hush it up, Plb.3.85.7; πρόσωπον στέλλεσθαι draw up one's face, look rueful, Phryn.PS p.107 B.
3. Medic., bind, make costive, τὰ στέλλοντα astringents, opp. τὰ καθαίροντα, Gal.1.221, cf. Alex.Aphr.Pr.Praef.:—Pass., φλέβες στέλλονται shrink up, Nic.Al.193.
4. Med., restrict one's diet, οὔτ᾽ ἂν ἀπόσχοιντο ὧν ἐπιθυμέουσιν, οὔτε στείλαιντο (v.l. ὑποστ-) Hp.VM5; στελλόμενοι τοῦτο avoiding this, 2 Ep.Cor.8.20; “στέλλεο Περσεφόνας ζᾶλον” Supp.Epigr.2.615 (Teos). (Cf. εὔσπολον, κασπολέω, σπολάς, σπόλος, σπελλάμεναι; prob. I.-E. sq[uglide]el-. but not found in cogn. languages; I.-E. st(h)el- is prob. found in OSlav. st[icaron]lati 'spread out', Lat. lātus (fr. *stlātus) 'broad', with which στέλλω may be cogn.)
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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