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τειχ-ίζω , fut. Att.
A.“-ιῶ” Th.6.97, D.6.14, 19.112: aor. “ἐτείχισα” Hdt.1.175: pf. “τετείχικα” D. 19.112:—Med., fut. “τειχιοῦμαι” X.Cyr.6.1.19 (v.l. -ίσασθαι): aor. “ἐτειχισάμην” Th.1.11; Ep. “ἐτειχίσσαντο” Il.7.449: (τεῖχος):—build a wall, Ar.Av.838, Th.1.64, etc.: c. acc. cogn., τ. μακρὰ τείχη build them, Id.5.82:—Med., τεῖχος ἐτειχίσσαντο they built them a wall, Il.7.449, cf. Th.3.105, And.3.38 (ἐτειχίσαμεν codd.); “ἔρυμα τῷ στρατοπέδῳ ἐτειχίσαντο” Th.1.11:—Pass., to be built, “πύργος τετείχισται” Pi.I.5(4).44; “ὕμνων θησαυρὸς τετείχισται” Id.P.6.9.
2. form a wall, “τῇ τῶν ἀσπίδων προβολῇ ὥσπερ τειχίσαντες” Hdn.6.5.10.
II. trans., wall, fortify, “ὄρος” Hdt.1.175, etc.; “τὸν Πειραιᾶ” And.3.5; τὴν πόλιν, τὸν κρημνόν, Th.1.93, 6.101; “στρατόπεδα δύο” Id.3.6; “λίθοις τ. τὴν πόλιν” D.18.299; “χαλκοῖς τείχεσι τὴν χώραν” Aeschin.3.84; “Μαγνησίαν” D.1.22:—Med., “τειχίζεσθαι τὸ χωρίον” Th.4.3:— Pass., “Ἀθηναῖοι ἐτειχίσθησαν” Id.1.93; τὰ τετειχισμένα the fortified parts, Id.4.9; ἐτετείχιστο . . τὰ βασιλήϊα περιβόλῳ stood enclosed by a surrounding wall, Hdt.1.181: metaph., [“Αἴγυπτον] τῷ Νείλῳ τετειχισμένην” Isoc.11.12; “ἀσφάλειαν τετειχισμένην ὅπλοις” D.19.84.
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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