κωλύω,
future -ύσω [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1448 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκώλῡσα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 897 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 244c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; perfect κεκώλῡκα [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.101, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.63 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future κωλυθήσομαι [[ LXX.Sir.20.2(1), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 2.25] LXX+2nd c.AD+]: also in middle form -ύσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκωλύθην [[ [prev. author] 2.64, etc.: ] Refs]perfect κεκώλῡμαι[[ [prev. work] 37 ] Refs]. [ῡ always before a consonant: common before a vowel, κωλῡόμεσθα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 391, κωλῡέτω [prev. author] “Ph.” 990, κωλῠεν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.33, κώλῠει 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 55 (= 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 22 Lobel), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Eq.” (see.below), “fragment” 100, 4th c.BC: Anaxilas Comicus 25, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 10 ] Refs 7th c.BC+].]:—hinder, prevent:—Constr.:
__1 with accusative et infinitive, κ. ἐκρέειν τὸν Νεῖλον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κώλυεν [μιν] μεῖναι Pi.[same place]; τί δῆτα καὶ σὲ κωλύει <λαβεῖν> κέρδο; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 794, compare “IT” 507, etc.; ὅς σε κ. τὸ δρᾶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1241; φεύγειν οὐδεὶς κ. νόμος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.52: with _negative_ added (rare in _Attic dialect_ Prose), κ. τινὰ μὴ θανεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1268; μὴ προσεύχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.22, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— passive, χρημάτων σπάνει [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ ὕδατος πιεῖν from drinking the water, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 621b; κωλυόμεσθα μὴ μαθεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 391; μὴ οὐ πονηρὸν εἶναι 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]