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|Definition=ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[putting in]], [[Theophrastus]] ''De Odoribus'' 26 (pl.): esp. [[putting into]] its place, [[setting]] or [[reduction]] of a [[fracture]] or a [[dislocated]] [[limb]], ἐμβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι Hp.''Fract.''13; [[mode of setting]], Id.''Art.''2.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[insertion]] of a [[letter]], ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]'' 437a.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[lading]] of a [[cargo]], ''PStrassb.''111.16 (iii B. C.), ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''62.11 (iii A. D.): esp. [[shipment]] of [[corn]] to [[Rome]] and [[Constantinople]], ''BGU''15ii3 (ii A. D.), etc.; <b class="b3">αἰσία ἐμβολή</b> Just.''Edict.''13.4.1.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[inroad into an enemy's country]], [[foray]], X.''An.''[4.1.4], ''HG''4.3.10; <b class="b3">ἡ Θηβαίων ἐμβολή</b> Arist.''Pol.''1269b37.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[charge]], of a [[bull]], E.''HF''869; of an [[army]]. [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''7.1.18, Arr.''Tact.''12.10.<br><span class="bld">b</span> esp. [[ram]]ming of one [[ship]] by another, A.''Pers.''279 (lyr.), 336; <b class="b3">ἀντιπρῴροις χρῆσθαι ταῖς ἐμβολαῖς</b> Th.7.36, etc. (opp. [[προσβολή]], [[collision]], ib.70); <b class="b3">ἐμβολὰς ἔχειν</b> to [[receive]] such [[charge]]s, X.''HG''4.3.12; [[δοῦναι]] to [[make]] them, Plb.1.51.6, etc.; in A.''Pers.''415 <b class="b3">ἐμβολαῖς χαλκοστόμοις</b> with [[shock]]s of [[brazen]] [[beak]]s ([[nisi legendum|nisi leg.]] [[ἐμβόλοις]]).<br><span class="bld">c</span> [[shock]] of [[battering ram]], Onos.42.5 (pl.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[stroke]] or [[discharge]] of a [[missile]], E.''Andr.''1130, Plb.8.7.3, Luc.''Nigr.''36, etc.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[entrance]], [[pass]], X.''HG''5.4.48; in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.191 <b class="b3">ἡ ἐμβολὴ τοῦ ποταμοῦ</b> is explained by the words <b class="b3">τῇ ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἐσβάλλει</b>; also, [[mouth]] of a [[river]], [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 4.11.8.<br><span class="bld">5</span> pl., [[gust]]s of [[wind]], <b class="b3">πνευμάτων σφοδρῶν ἐμβολή</b> Ascl.''Tact.''12.10.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[battering-ram]], <b class="b3">τὸ προέχον τῆς ἐμβολῆς</b> Th. 2.76.