A.make full and round, like the folds of a robe, Orph.A.1183 (tm.):—Pass., ἐγκεκολπῶσθαι to be curved into a bay or bays, Arist.Mu.393a23:—Med., put in the fold of one's robe: hence metaph., 'have in one's pocket', “τὴν τοῦ Καίσαρος ἰσχύν” D.C.48.52:—Pass., to have folded round one, “χιτῶνα ἐνεκεκόλπωτο” Id.62.2: metaph., “ἀρετήν” Mich.in EN603.24.
ἐγκολπ-όω ,
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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