ἐπιστομ-ίζω,
Attic dialect future -ῐῶ[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 7.33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: (στόμα):—bridle, curb, ἵππον conjecture in [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.85 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; [δελφῖνας] [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.18 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: metaphorically, curb, bridle, τοὺς ἐχθρούς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 845, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 7.33, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.110, NT.Tit.1.11; τὴν Ἰουδαίων νεωτεροποιίαν 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 17.10.1 ] NT+5th c.BC+]; silence a speaker, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.30, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.191; οἷον ἐ. καὶ χαλινοῦντες τὸ φιλόφωνον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.967b ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, ἐπεστομίσθη [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 482e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II. of flute-players, ἐ. ἑαυτὸν φορβειᾷ καὶ αὐλοῖς put on the mouthpiece and flutes, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.713d] Refs 1st c.AD+]; but ὁ αὐλὸς ἐ. [[ [prev. author] Alcaeus2 ] Refs]: hence, gag, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.” “Cond.” 7. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III. throw on his face, τινά [[ [prev. author] “Pr.Im.” 10, “Cal.” 12. ] Refs]