ἐγκάπτω

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τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ' ἐσθλὸν τῷδ' ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν → evil appears as good to him whose mind the god is leading to destruction (Sophocles, Antigone 622f.)

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Transliteration A: enkáptō Transliteration B: enkaptō Transliteration C: egkapto Beta Code: e)gka/ptw

English (LSJ)

pf.

   A ἐγκέκᾰφα AP9.316.6 (Leon.):—gulp down greedily, snap up, Ar.Pax7, V.791, Stratt.25, Hermipp.26, Alex.128.7; ἐ. αἰθέρα γνάθοις hold one's breath, E. Cyc.629.    II ἐγκάπτει· ἐκπνεῖ, Hsch.

German (Pape)

[Seite 704] gierig einschlucken, aufschnappen; Ar. Pax 7 Vesp. 791 u. sonst; Stratt. bei Ath. VII, 327 e u. öfter; ἐγκέκαφεν Leon. Tar. 29 (IX, 316); τὸ κέρμ' εἰς τὴν γνάθον Alexis bei Ath. III, 76 e;– αἰθέρα γνάθοις, d. i. die Backen aufblasen, Eur. Cycl. 625.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἐγκάπτω: μέλλ. -ψω, πρκμ. ἐγκέκᾰφα: ― «χάφτω», καταβροχθίζω λαιμάργως, Ἀριστοφ. Εἰρ. 7, Στράττις ἐν «Λημνομέδᾳ» 2· ἐπὶ τῶν ἐν Ἀθήνησι δικαστῶν, οἱ ὁποῖοι ἐκράτουν εἰς τὸ στόμα των τὸ μικρὸν νόμισμα, δι’ οὗ ὁ μισθὸς αὐτῶν ἐπληρώνετο, Ἀριστοφ. Σφ. 791, Ἐκκλ. 815, πρβλ. Ἕρμιππ. ἐν «Θεοῖς» 2, Ἄλεξ. ἐν «Λέβητι» 1. 7· σιγῶμεν ἐγκάψαντες αἰθέρα γνάθοις, κρατοῦντες τὴν ἀναπνοὴν ἡμῶν ἐντὸς τῶν γνάθων, Εὐρ. Κύκλ. 629· ― πρβλ. ἔγκαφος.