σφίγγω,
[[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 38.4, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future σφίγξω [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 12.208 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἔσφιγξα [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 31, “Anthologia Graeca” 10.75 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], etc.:—middle, aorist ἐσφιγξάμην [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.81, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 15.247, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist ἐσφίγχθην [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 6.331 (1st c.AD: Gaetulicus, Cn. Lentulus Epigrammaticus), (ἀπ-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Mochl.” 35] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἔσφιγμαι [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.72, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Musc. Enc.” 3] Refs 1st c.BC+]; infinitive ἐσφίγχθαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 244, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.13 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: pluperfect συνέσφικτο [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Procopius Gazaeus Rhetor p.168B. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]:—bind tight, bind fast:
__I of the person or thing bound, ἄρασσε μᾶλλον, σφίγγε [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 58; σφίγγετ᾽, ἀμαλλοδέται, τὰ δράγματα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.44 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κεκρύφαλοι σ. τεὴν τρίχ; [[“Anthologia Graeca” 5.259 (Paul. Sil.); κρημνᾷ ἑαυτὴν σφίγξασα ἐκ τοῦ τραχήλου 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 24; σ. πύλας ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]shut close, [[ Anthologia Graeca 5.293.5 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus)] Refs 6th c.AD+]; τόκους clutch,[[ [prev. work] 11.289 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus)] Refs 6th c.AD+]; σ. τὴν φράσιν straiten, abridge, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1011e, compare 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 244 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πολλῷ χρόνῳ τὸν λόγον σφίγξαντες having severely restrained their utterance, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.6e] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, ἐσφίγγετο πέπλος ζωστῆρι [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.17; σ. ὑπὸ τοῦ βρόχου 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.17; σφιγχθεὶς χέρας “APl.” 4.198 (1st c.AD(?): Maecius Epigrammaticus); σ. δράκοντι “Anthologia Graeca” 6.331 (1st c.AD: Gaetulicus, Cn. Lentulus Epigrammaticus); οὐ κατὰ τοὺς σφῆκας πάνυ ἐσφιγμένοι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Musc.Enc.” 3:] Refs 3rd c.BC+] —also middle (in active sense), [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.81, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 13.11, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]