ἐπῴχατο
χρώμεθα γὰρ πολιτείᾳ οὐ ζηλούσῃ τοὺς τῶν πέλας νόμους → we live under a form of government which does not emulate the institutions of our neighbours
English (LSJ)
Ep.3pl. plpf. Pass., πᾶσαι γὰρ [πύλαι] ἐπῴχατο all
A were shut to, Il.12.340 (= ἐπικεκλιμέναι ἦσαν, ἐπέκειντο, Aristarch., who derived it from ἐποίγω, prob. rightly, cf. προσοίγνυμι; = ἐπωχλισμέναι ἦσαν were bolted, Apollon.Lex., reading ἐπώχατο; πάσας γὰρ ἐπῴχετο Zenod., vulg.).
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: v.
Meaning: only Μ 340 πᾶσαι γὰρ ἐπῴχατο (scil. πύλαι) they were all closed.
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [?? 1130?; wrong 73] *h₂u̯eig- open
Etymology: Perhaps with Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1902, 737ff. = Kl. Schr. 1, 127ff. (Syntax 2, 183) 3. sg. med. plusquamperf. of ἐπ-οιγνύναι meaning close with aspiration of the velar (Schwyzer 771). On th meaning cf. esp. (την θύραν) προσέῳξεν he shut (LXX Ge. 19, 6); further Wackernagel l. c. where also on ἐπώχατο (from ἔχω, on the basis of less good reading ). - S. also Bechtel Lex. s. οἴγνυμι. Cf. DELG.
