The corpus record

εἴσπλοος

eisploos · ὁ

sailing in

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Where it lives

History 13 · 0.87/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

εἴσπλοος · eisploos — LSJ

sailing in

sailing in of ships, βιάσασθαι τὸν ἔσ. Th. 7.22, cf. 24 (pl.), X. HG 2.2.9.

2 right of entry

right of entry, εἶναι αὐτῷ εἴ. καὶ ἔκπλουν αὐτοῖς εἶναι καὶ ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ ἐν εἰρήνῃ IG 12(7).8 (Amorgos), etc.

II entrance of a harbour

entrance of a harbour, Th. 4.8 (pl.); λιμὴν στενόν τινα ἔχων εἴ. Pl. Ti. 25a.

In the wild

ἐσπλόου · esploou Herodotus, Histories 6.33.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6347)
εἴσπλουν · eisploun Plato, Timaeus 25 (DIORISIS sentence 116)
ἔσπλουν · esploun Thucydides, History 3.51.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2079)
ἔσπλου · esplou Thucydides, History 4.107.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3198)
ἔσπλους · esplous Thucydides, History 4.13.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2612)
ἔσπλουν · esploun Thucydides, History 4.14.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2613)

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Where it came from

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