The corpus record

ἐγκύπτω

egkupto

stoop down and peep in

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Where it lives

Bel et Draco (LXX) 1 · 11.9/10k
Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἐγκύπτω · enkyptō — LSJ

stoop down and peep in, look closely, stooping to the ground, retracted

stoop down and peep in, ἐ. εἴς τι look closely into, Hdt. 7.152; κατὰ [τὰς θυρίδας] Pl. R. 359d: abs., ἐγκεκυφότες stooping to the ground, Ar. Nu. 191, Th. 4.4; δάκτυλοι ἐγκύπτοντες retracted, Hp. Hebd. 51.

In the wild

ἐγκύψαντες · enkypsantes Herodotus, Histories 7.152.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7930)
ἐγκύψας · enkypsas Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 311)
ἐγκύψεις · enkypseis Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.3.4 (DIORISIS sentence 328)
ἐγκύψας · enkypsas Plato, Phaedrus 254 (DIORISIS sentence 489)
ἐγκύψαντα · enkypsanta Plato, Republic 2.359 (DIORISIS sentence 896)
ἐγκύψαντες · enkypsantes Plato, Republic 8.556 (DIORISIS sentence 4976)

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Where it came from

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