πολῐορκ-έω,
future -ήσω[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:aorist -ησα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 281, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.61, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future -ηθήσομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in middle form -ήσομαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.34, 8.49, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.18, “Cyr.” 6.1.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐπολιορκήθην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.57: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect πεπολιόρκημαι (ἐκ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (πόλις, ἕρκος):—besiege, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.17, 154, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 685, “Lys.” 281, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ πολιορκοῦντες the besiegers, opposed to οἱ κατακεκλειμένοι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be besieged, in a state of siege, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.81, +others; ὑπό τινος [prev. work] 26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of a fleet, to be blockaded, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.142 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Scamander, to be blocked, dammed back, ὑπὸ Ἀχιλλέως [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 340a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, π. τῆς ψυχῆς τὸ φρόνημα [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “adversus Christianos - Abh. Berl. Akad.” 28 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—passive, to be besieged, pestered, ὑπὸ τῶν συκοφαντῶν -ούμενοι πολιορκίαν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus 2.142a, compare “R.” 453a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.13, “UPZ” 6.33 (2nd c.BC) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a banker, π. περὶ ἀργυρίου [[ “PCair.Zen.” 62 (a) 4 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: in Medicine, to be blocked, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.6.13. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]