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

• διδάσκει δέ, ὡσ οὐ Μεσσηνίοισ τοῖσ οὐκέτ’ οὖσιν ἀλλὰ δούλοισ καὶ εἵλωσιν ὁρμητήριον καὶ καταφυγὴν παρέξουσι τὴν πόλιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 9 1:1)
• οὐδὲ γὰρ χρηματίζεσθαι τοῖσ ἐλευθέροισ ἐξῆν, ἵνα ἐλεύθεροι παντελῶσ καὶ καθάπαξ ὦσιν, ἀλλ’ ἦν ἡ περὶ τὰ χρήματα κατασκευὴ δεδομένη δούλοισ καὶ Εἵλωσιν, ὥσπερ ἡ περὶ τὸ δεῖπνον καὶ ὄψον διακονία. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 2 4:1)
• ὅτι δὲ τοῖσ εἵλωσιν ὑβριστικῶσ πάνυ ἐχρῶντο Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ Μύρων ὁ Πριηνεὺσ ἱστορεῖ ἐν δευτέρῳ Μεσσηνιακῶν γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 74 4:1)
• ἔδοξε δὲ τοῖσ τέλεσι καὶ προειπεῖν τοῖσ Εἵλωσιν, εἴ τισ βούλοιτο ὅπλα λαμβάνειν καὶ εἰσ τάξιν τίθεσθαι, τὰ πιστὰ λαμβάνειν ὡσ ἐλευθέρουσ ἐσομένουσ ὅσοι συμπολεμήσαιεν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 5 36:3)
• ἀνέστησαν δὲ καὶ Ἕλοσ ἐπὶ θαλάσσῃ πόλισμα Ἀχαιῶν ἐχόντων καὶ Ἀργείουσ τοῖσ εἵλωσιν ἀμύναντασ μάχῃ νικῶσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 12:3)

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