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|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[sitting in]]: hence, [[lying in wait]], [[ambush]], Th.5.56 (pl.), etc.; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι Id.3.90; ἐνέδραι κατασκευάζονται X.''Eq.Mag.''4.10; ἐνέδραν τιθέναι D.S.19.108; θέσθαι Plu.''Rom.''23; εἰς ἐ. ἐμπίπτειν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''8.5.14; <b class="b3">ἐκ τῆς ἐ. ἀνίστασθαι</b> ib.5.4.4; θέειν ἐκ τῆς ἐ. Th.4.67.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[men laid in ambush]], τὴν ἐ. ἐζανιστάναι X.''HG''4.8.37.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[trickery]], [[treachery]], δόλου καὶ ἐνέδρας πλήρης Pl.''Lg.''908d, cf. D.19.77; ἐνέδρας ἕνεκα Antiph.124.7; [[ἐξ ἐνέδρας]] = [[deceitfully]], [[insidiously]], opp. [[φανερῶς]], Ph.2.422; μετ' ἐνέδρας App.''BC''1.30, cf. Archig.ap Orib.8.2.20.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[position]], ναρθήκων Hp.''Fract.''16,27.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[delay]], περί τι ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''62.10 (iii A.D.), etc.