The corpus record

ἐγ-κλείω

egkleio

shut in, close

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Where it lives

Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

ἐγ-κλείω · eg-kleiō — LSJ

shut in, close

shut in, close, ὅκως τὰς πύλας ἐγκληΐσειε Hdt. 4.78; θύρα ἐγκεκλῃμένη Pl. Prt. 314d.

II shut, confine within, shut up, confine

shut or confine within, ἑρκέων ἐγκεκλῃμένος (for ἐντὸς ἑρκέων κεκλῃμένος) S. Aj. 1274; δόμοις ἐγκεκλῃμένος Id. Tr. 579: generally, shut up, confine, γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄσας ἔχει Id. Ant. 180; εἰ μὴ γλῶσσαν ἐγκλῄοι φόβος ib. 505; στόμα ἐ. E. Hec. 1284.

III shut oneself up in

Med., shut oneself up in, X. HG 6.5.9.

2 shut up with oneself

shut up with oneself, Luc. Alex. 41.

In the wild

ἐγκλείσαντες · enkleisantes Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5763)
ἐγκεκλειμένα · enkekleimena Epictetus, Discourses 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5767)
ἐγκεκλῃμένης · enkeklēimenēs Plato, Protagoras 314
ἐγκλείσθητι · enkleisthēti Septuaginta, Ezechiel 3
ἐγκεκλῃμένους · enkeklēimenous Sophocles, Ajax 1272–1279
ἐγκλῄσας · enklēisas Sophocles, Antigone 178–181

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