Sense

1. near, next, close by

Examples

• ἡνίοχοι δ’ ἔμπλην ἔλασαν καλλίτριχασ ἵππουσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 35:4)
• ἔμπλην ἐμοῦ τε καὶ Φόλου λεωκόρητοσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 483)
• οἳ μὲν Φωκήων στίχασ ἵστασαν ἀμφιέποντεσ, Βοιωτῶν δ’ ἔμπλην ἐπ’ ἀριστερὰ θωρήσσοντο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 45:3)

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