Sense

1. avoidance, escape
2. a means of avoiding, a defence or shelter from dhi/+wn a)ndrw=n, a defence

Examples

• νῦν γὰρ δὴ παρὰ ποσσὶν ἐπήβολός ἐστ ἀλεωρή, εἴ κεν ἐπιτρέψητε δόμους καὶ ληίδα πᾶσαν ὑμετέρην ξείνοισι καὶ ἀγλαὸν ἄστυ μέλεσθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 12:27)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.