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ἐνίστημι , causal in pres., fut.and aor. 1 Act., and aor. 1 Med.:—
A.put, place in, “ἵππον ἐν λίθοις ἐνιστάναι” X.Eq.Mag.1.16; “στήλας ἐνίστη ἐς τὰς χώρας” Hdt.2.102; εἰς αὐτὴν (sc. τὴν πόλιν）“ ἡνίοχον ἐνστῆσαι” Pl.Plt. 266e; τοὺς ἱπποκόμους εἰς (i.e. amongst) “τοὺς ἱππέας ἐ.” X.Eq.Mag. 5.6: c. dat., “ἱστὸν ἐνεστήσαντο μεσόδμῃ” A.R.1.563.
2. in Law, institute an heir, “ἐ. κληρονόμους τοὺς υἱούς” PMasp.151.75 (vi A. D.).
3. aor. 1 Med., also, begin, “ὅσαι τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτ᾽ ἐνεστήσαντο” Ar.Lys.268; “οὐδὲν πώποτε τῶν πραγμάτων ἐνεστήσασθ᾽ ὀρθῶς” D.10.21; ὁ τοιοῦτον “ἀγῶν᾽ ἐνστησάμενος” Id.18.4; ἐ. τὸ πρᾶγμα, Lat. rem instituere, Arist. Pr.951a28; “ἀρχὰς τῆς γενέσεως” Thphr.HP7.10.4; ὀργὴν καὶ μῖσος πρός τινα ἐνστήσασθαι to begin to show . ., Plb.1.82.9; “πρᾶξιν” Plu. Arat.16: c. inf., D.S.14.53.
4. ἐνστήσασθαι τὸ μέγεθος determine the size, Ph.Bel.50.29.
B. Pass., with aor. 2, pf., and plpf. Act.:—to be set in, stand in, “λὁχοις” E.Supp.896; “ἐν τῷ νηῷ” Hdt.2.91: abs., “πύλαι ἐνεστᾶσι ἑκατόν” Id.1.179, cf. Pl.Ti.50d, etc.
2. enter upon, take possession of, “ὁ νικάσας ἐν τὰν οὐσίαν ἐνίσταται τὰν τοῦ ἁλόντος” Foed. Delph.Pell. 2B 14.
II. to be appointed, “σοῦ ἐνεστεῶτος βασιλέος” Hdt.1.120, cf. 6.59; “ἐς ἀρχήν” Id.3.68; “ἐς τυραννίδας” Id.2.147.
III. to be upon, threaten, c. dat. pers., “τοιούτων τοῖσι Σπαρτιήτῃσι ἐνεστεώτων πρηγμάτων” Id.1.83; “τὸν πόλεμον τὸν ἐνστάντα σοὶ καὶ τῇ πόλει” Isoc.5.2; in war, press hard, “τινί” Plb.3.97.1: abs., begin, [“τοῦ θέρους] ἐνισταμένου” Thphr.HP9.8.2; “ἐνισταμένου τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ” LXX 3 Ki.12.24; to be at hand, arise, “ὁ τότ᾽ ἐνστὰς πόλεμος” D.18.89, cf. 139, Plb.1.71.4; “τοῦ πολέμου πρὸς Φίλιππον ὑμῖν ἐνεστηκότος” Aeschin.2.58: esp. in pf. part., pending, present, “μιᾶς ἐνεστώσης δίκης” Ar.Nu.779, cf. Is.11.45, D.33.14; “ὁ νῦν ἐνεστηκὼς ἀγών” Lycurg.7; so “οὐδενὸς ἡμῖν ἐνεστῶτος πρὸς αὐτούς” PStrassb.91.21 (i B.C.); of Time, instant, present, τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος μηνός Philipp. ap. D.18.157; ἡ ἐνεστῶσα κακία, ἀνάγκη, PPetr.2p.60, 1 Ep.Cor.7.26; “κατὰ τὸν ἐ. καιρόν” Arist.Rh.1366b23; “ἀγαθὸν ἐνεστὼς ἢ μέλλον” Stoic.3.94; cf. “ἐνεστάναι τὸν πάντα χρόνον ὡς τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἐνεστηκέναι λέγομεν” Apollod.Stoic.3.260.
2. esp. Gramm., ὁ ἐνεστὼς (sc. χρόνος) the present tense, Stoic.2.48, D.T.638.22, A.D.Pron.58.7, al.; also “ἐνεστῶσα συντέλεια” the state of completion expressed by the perfect tense, Id.Synt.205.15: also in aor., τοῦ ποτὲ ἐνστάντος when the moment has arrived, Plot.4.3.13; τὰ ἐνεστηκότα πράγματα present circumstances, X.HG2.1.6; so “τὰ ἐνεστῶτα” Plb.2.26.3.
IV. stand in the way, resist, block, “τοῖς ποιουμένοις” Th.8.69; “τῇ φυγῇ” Plu.Luc.13; “τῇ αὐξήσει” Id.Rom.25; “πρὸς πᾶσάν τινι πολιτείαν” Id.Arist.3, cf.Marc.22: abs., stand in the way, Th.3.23; in argument, “ἐνέστηκεν ὃ νυνδὴ Κέβης ἔλεγε” Pl.Phd.77b; ὁ ἐνεστηκώς the opponent in a lawsuit, SIG45.28 (Halic., v B.C.).
2. in Logic, object, “τῷ καθόλου” Arist.Top.157b3; “πρὸς τὸν ἔξω λόγον” Id.APo.76b26: abs., Id.Rh.1402b24,al.; “ἐ. ὅτι . .” Id.APr.69b6; “ὡς . .” Id.EN1172b35, A.D. Synt.176.23.
3. of the Roman tribunes, exercise the right of intercessio, veto, Plb.6.16.4, Plu.TG10,al.
V. of fluids, congeal, freeze, “ὕδωρ ἐνεστηκός” Thphr.CP5.13.1; become impacted in, ἐνιστάμενον ἐπὶ τὰ τοῦ στομάχου στενά (sc. γάλα) Dsc.Alex.26.
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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