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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelleLove that moves the sun and the other stars

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145
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English (LSJ)

   A form a bay, ἠϊὼν ἐγκολπίζουσα Str.5.4.5.    2 go into or follow the bay, Id.9.5.22.    3 inject into the vagina, Aët.1.126.    II Med., with pf. Pass., take in one's bosom, ὥσπερ ἑρπετὰ τοὺς ἀπορρήτους λόγους Plu.2.508d, cf. Plot. 1.4.6; embrace, θεὸς ἐγκεκόλπισται τὰ ὅλα Ph.1.425; περίοδος πολλοὺς ἀγκῶνας ἐγκολπιζομένη a period embracing many turns of expression, D.H.Dem.4 (vulg. ἐγκαλλωπιζομένη) ; [ἰχθῦς] ἐ. τῇ σαγήνῃ to catch fish in the belly of the net, Alciphr.1.18.    2 conceive, Porph.Gaur.5.4.    3 embrace in a bay, ἄκρα πολὺν-ομένη λιμένα Dion.Byz.53.