ἐπηλυγάζω
Ὦ τύμβος, ὦ νυμφεῖον, ὦ κατασκαφὴς οἴκησις αἰείφρουρος, οἷ πορεύομαι πρὸς τοὺς ἐμαυτῆς, ὧν ἀριθμὸν ἐν νεκροῖς πλεῖστον δέδεκται Φερσέφασσ' ὀλωλότων. → Tomb, bridal chamber, eternal prison in the caverned rock, whither I go to find mine own, those many who have perished, and whom Persephone hath received among the dead. | Tomb, bridal-chamber, deep-dug eternal prison where I go to find my own, whom in the greatest numbers destruction has seized and Persephone has welcomed among the dead.
English (LSJ)
or ἐπηλῠγ-ίζω,
A overshadow, cover, τινὰς ἱματίοις Ael.NA4.7, cf. 3.16, al.:—Med., τῷ κοινῷ φόβῳ τὸν σφέτερον ἐπηλυγάζεσθαι throw a shade over, i.e. disguise, conceal one's own fear by... Th.6.36; ἐ. τὴν χεῖρα hold one's hand as a shade over one's eyes, Arist.GA780b19; and (without χεῖρα) ἐ. πρὸ τῶν ὀμμάτων ib.781b12, cf. Aristocl. ap.Eus.PE14.18; ἐπηλυγισάμενός τινα putting him as a screen before one, Pl.Ly.207b; ἐ. ὕλην Arist.HA559a1, cf. 613b9; use as a lurking place, ὀπήν ib.623a29:—Pass., to be concealed, ὑπὸ τῆς ἀγνωσίας Dam.Pr.26; τινί ib.29; to be suppressed, Hp.Mul.2.156. (Both -άζω and -ίζω are found in codd.)
