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εἴλω
(also εἰλέω, εἱλέω, εἴλλω, εἵλλω, ἴλλω; εἱλῶνται is falsa lectio in [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.2)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], a word whose meanings are traceable to various roots of similar form, [[see below 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 4th c.BC+] —From εἴλω (present in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only ] Refs 8th c.BC+]passive participle εἰλόμενος (see. below)), we have Epic dialect aorist ἔλσα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.413 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], infinitive ἐέλσαι [[ 21.295 ] Refs], Doric dialect participle ἔλσαις [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).43 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, aorist ἠλσάμην [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 17 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist 2 ἐάλην [ᾰ] [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.408 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive ἀλῆναι, ἀλήμεναι, [[ 16.714, 18.76 ] Refs]; participle ἀλείς, εῖσα, έν [[ 22.308: ] Refs]perfect ἔελμαι, participle - μένος [[ 13.524:] Refs] —for ἐόλει, ἐόλητο, see.{ἐόλει}.—From εἰλέω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.294 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: imperfect εἴλεον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.460 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; contraction εἴλει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.215, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.210; ἐείλεον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.447 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future εἰλήσω [[ LXX.Job.40.21(26), “Anthologia Graeca” 12.208 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus)] LXX+2nd c.AD+]: aorist εἴλησα [[ LXX.4Ki.2.8, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.87 (ἐν-)] LXX+1st c.AD+]:—middle, imperfect εἰλεῦντο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.8 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle εἰλεύμενος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.76 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist εἰλήθην [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect εἴλημαι [[ LXX.1Ki.21.9(10) and LXX.Isa.11.5 (assuming variant), 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 1202] LXX+3rd c.BC+]: pluperfect εἴληντο [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 12.1.9. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __A shut in (less frequently shut out, εἰλέσθων τοῦ ἱαροῦ let them be shut out from the temple, [[ “IG” 22.1126.48 (4th c.BC))] Refs 4th c.BC+]; [Ὀδυσῆα] ἔλσαν ἐν μέσσοισι μετὰ σφίσι, πῆμα δὲ ἔλσαν [[(4th-3rd c.BC: Zenodotus Grammaticus, variant{πῆμα τιθέντες}) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.413; ὅτε Κύκλωψ εἴλει ἐνὶ σπῆϊ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.210, compare 22.460; ἔνθα δυώδεκα μὲν μένον ἤματα δῖοι Ἀχαιοί· εἴλει γὰρ Βορέης ἄνεμος μέγας οὐδ᾽ ἐπὶ γαίῃ εἴα ἵστασθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.200; ὅν περ ἄελλαι χειμέριαι εἰλέωσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.294; εἱλεῖσθαι ἐν τῷ τόπῳ, μὴ δυνάμενον ἐκπλεῦσαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 840a33, compare “Etymologicum Magnum” 298.29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς ἄστυ ἄλεν (for ἄλησαν) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.12; κατὰ ἄστυ ἐέλμεθα 24.662; ἐελμένοι ἔνδοθι πύργων 18.287; νηυσὶν ἔπι γλαφυρῇσιν ἐελμένοι 12.38 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χειμέριον ἀλὲν ὕδωρ ponded water, prevented from flowing away, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.420 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅσοι πικροὶ.. χυμοὶ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα πλανηθέντες ἔξω μὲν μὴ λάβωσιν ἀναπνοήν, ἐντὸς δὲ εἱλλόμενοι (variant{εἰλόμενοι}) τὴν ἀφ᾽ αὑτῶν ἀτμίδα τῇ τῆς ψυχῆς φορᾷ συμμείξαντες ἀνακερασθῶσι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 86e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.2 hinder, hold in check, prevent, ἧστο Διὸς βουλῇσιν ἐελμένος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.524, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 25: ἔλλοψ (as though ἴλλοψ) is derived from ἴλλεσθαι ={εἴργεσθαι} and ὄψ ={φωνή} by 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.308c. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.3 enclose, cover, protect, ὑπ᾽ ἀσπίδος ἄλκιμον ἦτορ ἔλσας [[ 7th c.BC: Callinus Epicus 1.11 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; τῇ ὕπο (i.e. τῇ ἀσπίδι) πᾶς ἐάλη he was entirely covered, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.408. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B press, as olives and grapes, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Grammaticus “fragment” 155] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀμφὶ βίην Διομήδεος.. εἰλόμενοι huddling around him, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.782 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵππων φειδόμενος, μή μοι δευοίατο φορβῆς ἀνδρῶν, εἰλομένων, εἰωθότες ἔδμεναι ἄδην here where men throng,[[ [prev. work] 203; πλῆθεν.. ἵππων τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν εἰλομένων· εἴλει δὲ.. Ἕκτωρ 8.215, compare 1.409, 18.447, 21.295; πόλις δ᾽ ἔμπλητο ἀλέντων [prev. work] 607 ] Refs]; ἐς ποταμὸν εἰλεῦντο they were forced into the river, [[[prev. work] 8 ] Refs]; εἱλουμένης τῆς τροφῆς the nourishment being concentrated, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 6.11.8; θῆρας ὁμοῦ εἰλεῦντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.573 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [λέων] ἰλλόμενός περ ὁμίλῳ hard-pressed, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.27; ἀπωθούμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ περιεστῶτος ἔξωθεν πνεύματος πάλιν ἐντὸς ὑπὸ τὸ δέρμα εἱλλόμενον κατερριζοῦτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 76b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, of crowds, swarm, jostle one another, ἐν ὀλίγῳ εἰλουμένους [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crassus” 25 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of ants, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Icar.” 19. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.2 in aorist passive, of a man or animal, contract his body, draw himself together, Αἰνείας δ᾽ ἐάλη καὶ ἀπὸ ἕθεν ἀσπίδ᾽ ἀνέσχεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.278 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐνὶ δίφρῳ ἧστο ἀλείς (huddled up), ἐκ γὰρ πλήγη φρένας [[ 16.403 ] Refs]; of a lion when struck, ἐάλη τε χανών [[ 20.168 ] Refs]; of a warrior, Ἀχιλῆα ἀλεὶς μένεν [[ 21.571; οἴμησεν δὲ ἀλεὶς ὥς τ᾽ αἰετὸς ὑψιπετήεις 22.308, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.538. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II without the idea of pressure, collect, ἐν Πίσᾳ ἔλσαις στρατὸν λείαν τε πᾶσαν [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).43:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, Ἀργείους ἐκέλευσα ἀλήμεναι ἐνθάδε πάντας to assemble, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.823. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__C (found only in the forms εἰλέω (εἱλ-), ἴλλω) wind, turn round, σκολιήν τε καὶ οὐ μίαν ἀτραπὸν ἴλλων [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 478 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἀπὸ δὲ τῶ[ν πετρῶν] ἴλλει ἡ στεφάνη ἐπὶ τὸν λόφον [[ “GDI” iv (4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νῆα δ᾽ ἔπειτα πέριξ εἴλει ῥόος [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.571 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; roll, γλῶσσαν uncertain in [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Iambi” 1.144 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:— passive, revolve, move to and fro, ἰλλομένων ἀρότρων [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 340 (Lyric poetry); οἱ ἀστέρες ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ εἰλέονται 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Astr.” 29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ τὴν γῆν ἀεὶ εἱλεῖν ἰών, as etymology of ἥλιος (ἀέλιος), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 409a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰλέονται ἐπὶ τὸ ὑγιὲς σκέλος they pivot or swing round on the sound leg, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 52, compare “Mochl.” 20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a flame, περὶ δ᾽ αὐτὸν εἰλεῖτο φλόξ [[ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 4.104 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κατ᾽ αὐτὸν (i.e. τὸν κισσὸν) ἕλιξ εἰλεῖται is twined round, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.31; δαίμων ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ παντὸς εἱλουμένη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 1.3.52] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also of hair on the crown, to be whorled, [[ 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 13. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__C.II roll up tight, [κῶας] εἴλει ἀφασσόμενος [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.181; τὴν μηλωτὴν εἱλήσας LXX.4Ki.2.8:—] LXX+3rd c.BC+]passive, ἰλλομένοις ἐπὶ λαίφεσι furled, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.329. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__C.II.2 bind fast, δεσμοῖς ἰλλόμενος [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.129, compare 2.1249 (_passive_),compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 158. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__C.III metaphorically in passive, ἐν ποσὶ εἱλεῖσθαι to be familiar, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.76; οἱ περὶ τὰς δίκας εἱλούμενοι 2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 28.3, compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.60, 64. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__D It seems impossible to derive all the above uses from an originally sense squeeze, though most of those under A and B, as well as C. II, might be so explained; but A seems to imply a root meaning bar, compare ἀποϝηλέω, ἐγϝηληθίωντι, ϝήλημα (βήλημα), εἶλαρ, and C is to be compared with εἰλύω, Latin volvo: some passages are doubtful in meaning, μή νυν περὶ σαυτὸν εἶλλε τὴν γνώμην ἀεί do not roll or wrap your thought round you, or do not confine your thought within you, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 761 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γῆν.. ἰλλομένην (variant{εἱλλ-, εἰλλ-}) τὴν περὶ τὸν διὰ παντὸς πόλον τεταμένον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 40b ] Refs 5th c.BC+] was taken to mean revolving by [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 293b31 (compare περὶ τὸ μέσον εἱλεῖσθαι “Mete.” 356a5) but explained (omitting τήν)] Refs 4th c.BC+] as packed tightly about.. by [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Timaeum commentarii” 3.136 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐν δὲ τῇ ταραχῇ (in the churning) εὐρυχωρίης γινομένης, εἰλέεται (i.e. τὸ ὑγρόν) ἀποκεκριμένον καὶ θερμαίνει τὸ σῶμα perhaps is squeezed out, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὶν δὲ ταραχθῆναι οὐκ ἔχει ἐκχωρέειν τὸ πλεῖον τοῦ ὑγροῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἄνω καὶ κάτω εἰλέεται μεμιγμένον τῷ ἄλλῳ ὑγρῷ is driven up and down[[, [prev. passage]:—νῆα κεραυνῷ Ζεὺς ἔλσας (ἐλάσας 4th-3rd c.BC: Zenodotus Grammaticus) ἐκέασσε] Refs 4th c.BC+] probably striking the ship.., [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.132, compare 7.250 (only here in this sense). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
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