ἔγκειμαι
egkeimaiVerbG7014
to cling
Full Lexicon Entry
1.to lie in, be wrapped in clothes, (Iliad by Homer)
2.*ἔγκεισθαί τινι *to be involved in a thing, (Euripides)
3.to press upon, of troops pressing upon the enemy, (Thucydides):—;with an adjective or adverb, *πολλὸς ἐνέκειτο *was very urgent, (Herdotus Historicus); *πολὺς ἔγκειται *he insists much upon a thing, with dative, (Demosthenes Orator)
4.to be devoted to one, (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus)
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