The corpus record

ἐγκατά-ληψις

egkatalepsis · ἡ

catching, being caught in, being hemmed in

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Where it lives

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What it meant

ἐγκατά-ληψις · enkata-lēpsis — LSJ

catching, being caught in, being hemmed in, suppression

catching or being caught in a place, being hemmed in, Th. 5.72; suppression of urine, Hp. Epid. 6.2.7 (codd.sedleg. ἐγκατάλειψις).

2 concept

concept ( = κατάληψις), Gal. 14.685, cf. 19.350.

In the wild

ἐγκατάληψιν · enkatalēpsin Thucydides, History 5.72.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3883)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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