II. metaph., curb, bridle, check, “τὴν ναῦν” Philostr.VA3.23; [φόβον, ἐπιθυμίαν] Epicur.Fr.485; τὴν ὀργήν, τὸν θυμόν, Ps.-Phoc.57, Them.Or.34p.454Dind.; “τὸ φιλόφωνον καὶ λάλον” Plu.2.967b; “τὴν ἀλογίαν” Hierocl. in CA8p.431M.; “τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀπληστίαν” Lib.Or.47.35:—Pass., to be bridled, curbed, “τῇ φρουρᾷ καὶ τοῖς ὁμήροις” Plu.Arat.38; “ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου” Philostr.VA4.30: abs., to be tongue-tied, Hp.Mul.1.2.
χα^λι_ν-οω ,
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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