ἐμποδίζω: Difference between revisions

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