A.build a fort or stronghold on the frontier of the enemy's country to serve as the basis of operations against him, abs., Th.1.142,7.47 ; “ἐ. [Δεκέλειαν] τῇ πατρίδι” And.1.101, cf. Lys.14.30, Plu.Alc. 23 ; ἐ. [ἐν add.codd.] “τῷ Φλιοῦντι τὸ.. Τρικάρανον” X.HG7.2.1, cf.5.1.2 ; and in Pass., “Δεκελείας. ἐπιτετειχισμένης” Aeschin.2.76 : metaph., ἐ. τυράννους ἐν χώρᾳ plant them like such forts in a country, D.10.8, cf. 8.36 ; so “τῷ πλούτῳ τὴν ὑπεροψίαν ἐ.” Luc.Nigr.23 ; “ἐ. [τινὰ] τῇ συνωμοσίᾳ.. πολέμιον” Plu.Brut.20.
ἐπιτειχ-ίζω ,
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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