Sense

1. to roll up, pack, to roll up, and force, back to, to coop up or hem in, to drive, to be cooped or huddled up, straitened, held in check
2. to smite, having smitten
3. to collect, collected, ponded
4. to draw oneself up, shrink up, collecting himself
5. to go to and fro
6. to wind, turn round, to turn round, revolve, moving to and fro, is twined round

Examples

• κατηγόρουσ εἵλεσθε κατὰ τὸν νόμον, εἰσῆλθεν εἰσ τὸ δικαστήριον, ἀπελύσαθ’ ὑμεῖσ, ὁμολογοῦντοσ τοῦ Πολυεύκτου βαδίζειν εἰσ Μέγαρ’ ὡσ τὸν Νικοφάνην· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 70:2)
• ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ εἵλεσθε τοῦτον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parabasis, epirrheme7)
• δόξαντα δὲ ὑμῖν ταῦτα εἵλεσθε ἄνδρασ εἴκοσι· (Andocides, Speeches, 135:2)
• ἐπειδὴ δὲ βουλήν τε ἀπεκληρώσατε νομοθέτασ τε εἵλεσθε, εὑρίσκοντεσ τῶν νόμων τῶν τε Σόλωνοσ καὶ τῶν Δράκοντοσ πολλοὺσ ὄντασ οἷσ πολλοὶ τῶν πολιτῶν ἔνοχοι ἦσαν τῶν πρότερον ἕνεκα γενομένων, ἐκκλησίαν ποιήσαντεσ ἐβουλεύσασθε περὶ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐψηφίσασθε, δοκιμάσαντεσ πάντασ τοὺσ νόμουσ, εἶτ’ ἀναγράψαι ἐν τῇ στοᾷ τούτουσ τῶν νόμων οἳ ἂν δοκιμασθῶσι. (Andocides, Speeches, 136:1)
• ἰὼ θεοὶ νεώτεροι, παλαιοὺσ νόμουσ καθιππάσασθε κἀκ χερῶν εἵλεσθέ μου. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, strophe 11)

Similar forms

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• εἷλεν (116)
• εἷλον (114)
• εἷλκε (22)
• εἵλου (13)
• εἵλετ (13)
• εἷλες (9)
• εἴλας (8)
• εἷλέ (7)
• εἴλει (6)
• εἶλαρ (5)
• εἷλ (5)
• εἰλεῷ (5)
• εἵλευ (4)
• εἴληφ (4)
• εἷλαν (3)
• εἴλῃ (3)
• εἷλέν (3)
• εἷλκέ (2)
• εἵλην (2)
• εἷλὲ (2)
• εἴλεε (2)
• εἴλην (1)
• εἴληχ (1)
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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.