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εἰσάλλομαι

eisallomai

spring, rush into, leap into

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Where it lives

Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

εἰσάλλομαι · eisallomai — LSJ

spring, rush into, leap into

spring or rush into, ἐσήλατο τεῖχος Ἀχαιῶν Il. 12.438; πύλας καὶ τεῖχος ἐσᾶλτο 13.679, cf. 12.466 ; πύργον -όμενοι Pi. O. 8.38 ; later ἐσ. ἐς τὸ πῦρ leap into it, Hdt. 2.66 ; εἰ. εἰς τὰ τείχη v.l. in X. Cyr. 7.4.4 ; ἀνακειμένῳ εἰς τὸν αὐχένʼ εἰσαλοίμην S. Fr. 756 ; [εἰς ἀσκόν] upon a bladder, Eub. 8 ; ἐπὶ κρατί μοι πότμος εἰσήλατο S. Ant. 1345 (lyr.).

In the wild

ἐσήλατο · esēlato Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7554)
ἐσάλλονται · esallontai Herodotus, Histories 2.66.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2014)
ἐσήλατο · esēlato Iliad 12.438
ἐσᾶλτο · esalto Iliad 12.466
ἐσᾶλτο · esalto Iliad 13.679
ἐσήλατο · esēlato Iliad 16.558

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