ἐμποδίζω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Att.fut. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ἐμποδιῶ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ly.</span>210b</span>, later ἐμποδίσω <span class="title">Gp.</span>2.49.1:—Med. (v. infr.11.2) :— Pass., fut. ἐμποδισθήσομαι <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>1.17</span>, Gal. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.7.23.28</span>, or (in med. form) ἐμποδίσομαι <span class="bibl">Antip.Stoic.3.256</span>: pf. <b class="b3">ἐμπεπόδισμαι</b> (v. infr.): ([[ἐν]], [[πούς]]):—[[put the feet in bonds]]: hence, [[put in bonds]], [[fetler]], τοὺς μάντιας <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.69</span>:—Pass., <b class="b3">ἐμπεποδισμένος τοὺς πόδας</b> ib.<span class="bibl">60</span>; (ὀλιγοδρᾰνίᾳ) ἐμπεπ. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>550</span>(lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[hinder]], [[thwart]], τὸ θεῖον ἐνεπόδιζέ με <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Av.</span>965</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lys.</span>359</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>2.3.10</span>; τοὺς τῆς πόλεως καιρούς <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.223</span>; <b class="b3">ἐ. τοῦ ἰέναι</b> to [[hinder]] from... <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>419c</span>; <b class="b3">πρός τι</b> [[in]] a thing, <span class="bibl">Isoc.<span class="title">Ep.</span>4.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1341a6</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Ph.1.466</span>:— Pass., Χαἱ σοφαὶ γνῶμαι . . ἐμποδίζονται θαμά <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>432</span>; <b class="b3">ἐμποδίζοιτο ἂν μὴ πράττειν</b> [[would]] be [[hinder]]ed [[from]] doing, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>183a</span>; τῆς εἰς τοὔμπροσθε πορείας <span class="bibl">D.S.14.28</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. dat. rei, to [[be a hindrance]] to, [[interfere with]], πολλαῖς ἐνεργείαις <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1100b29</span>; ἀλλήλαις <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pol.</span> 1299b8</span>; ταῖς Χορηγίαις <span class="bibl">Plb.5.111.4</span>: c. dat. pers., τοῖς γεωργοῖς <span class="title">Gp.</span>2.49.1; τοῖς εἰς ἀρετὴν ἀφικνουμένοις Porph.<span class="title">Ep.Aneb.</span>26: rarely c. acc. rei, ἐ. τὸ κοινὸν ἔργον <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Top.</span>161a37</span>:—so in Med., ἐμποδίζεται δόσιν <span class="bibl">Philem.164</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> abs., to [[be a check]] or [[hindrance]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1288b24</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> dub. in κέχηνεν ὥσπερ ἐμποδίζων ἰσχάδας <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>755</span>; prob. <b class="b2">playing bob-fig</b>, i.e. catching figs dangled by the stalk (πούς); Sch. and Lexx. also expl. as [[stringing]], [[chewing]], or [[trampling]] figs.</span>