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σύγ-κλεισις , old Att. ξύγκλῃσις , εως, ἡ: (συγκλείω):—
A.shutting up, closing up (of a line of battle), Th.5.71; τῆς φάλαγγος ἡ ς. Arr.An.1.4.3; “συγκλείσει κωλύειν τὴν δίοδον” Thphr.Od.36.
2. locking up, safe storage, “σίτου” PLond.2.237.21 (iv A.D.).
II. a being closed, ἰσχυρὰν . . τὴν ς. αὐτῶν πρὸς ἄλληλα κέκτηται has them closely locked together, Pl.Ti.81b, cf. Hp.Loc.Hom.6; “ἐπὶ συναφῆς καὶ συγκλείσεως χάριν” Arist.Spir.484b22; locking of shields in χελώνη, Arr.Tact.11.6.
2. συγκλείσεις narrow passes, defiles, Plb.5.44.7, v.l. for συγκλίσεις in Plu.Cam.41.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Plato, Timaeus, 81b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.71
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.44.7
    • Plutarch, Camillus, 41
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 1.4.3
    • Arrian, Tactica, 11.6
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