The corpus record

ἐκπολιορκ-έω

ekpoliorkeo

force a besieged town to surrender, force to capitulate

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Where it lives

Answer to Philip's Letter 1 · 7.76/10k
Philip's Letter 1 · 7.12/10k
On Halonnesus 1 · 4.11/10k
Plataicus 1 · 3.14/10k
Archidamus 1 · 1.63/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 2 · 1.5/10k
On the Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k
Panegyricus 1 · 0.93/10k
History 11 · 0.74/10k
Panathenaicus 1 · 0.63/10k
Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐκπολιορκ-έω · ekpoliork-eō — LSJ

force a besieged town to surrender, force to capitulate, to be forced to surrender

force a besieged town to surrender, force to capitulate, Th. 1.94, 134, X. HG 2.4.3, etc. : metaph. of argument, ἐ. τινὰ λόγῳ Chio Ep. 10 :—Pass., to be forced to surrender, Th. 1.117; ἐκ Βυζαντίου ἐκπολιορκηθείς ib. 131, cf. Inscr.Prien. 37.112; ὑπὸ τῶν τυράννων Arist. Ath. 19.3 : metaph., ἐκπολιορκηθέντος τοῦ σώματος ὑπὸ μακρᾶς νόσου Diog.Oen. 39.

In the wild

ἐξεπολιορκήθησαν · exepoliorkēthēsan Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..19 (DIORISIS sentence 240)
ἐκπολιορκηθῆναι · ekpoliorkēthēnai Demosthenes, Answer to Philip's Letter 5 (DIORISIS sentence 7)
ἐκπολιορκήσας · ekpoliorkēsas Demosthenes, On Halonnesus 27 (DIORISIS sentence 63)
ἐκπολιορκήσας · ekpoliorkēsas Demosthenes, Philip's Letter 21 (DIORISIS sentence 59)
ἐκπολιορκῆται · ekpoliorkētai Epictetus, Discourses 1.28 (DIORISIS sentence 1536)
ἐξεπολιόρκησεν · exepoliorkēsen Isocrates, Antidosis 111 (DIORISIS sentence 223)

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Where it came from

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