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ἐπιστομ-ίζω , Att. fut.
A.“-ι^ῶ” D.7.33: (στόμα):—bridle, curb, ἵππον cj. in Ph.1.85; [δελφῖνας] Philostr. Im.2.18: metaph., curb, bridle, “τοὺς ἐχθρούς” Ar.Eq.845, cf. D.7.33, Aeschin.2.110, Ep.Tit.1.11; “τὴν Ἰουδαίων νεωτεροποιίαν” J.AJ17.10.1; silence a speaker, Philostr. VS2.30, cf. Ph.2.191; “οἷον ἐ. καὶ χαλινοῦντες τὸ φιλόφωνον” Plu.2.967b:—Pass., “ἐπεστομίσθη” Pl.Grg.482e.
II.. of flute-players, ἐ. ἑαυτὸν φορβειᾷ καὶ αὐλοῖς put on the mouthpiece and flutes, Plu.2.713d; but ὁ αὐλὸς ἐ. Id.Alc.2: hence, gag, Luc.Merc. Cond.7.
III.. throw on his face, “τινά” Id.Pr.Im.10, Cal.12.
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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