ἐμβολ-ή (embole)

Where it lives

Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
History 4 · 0.27/10k
Cyropaedia 2 · 0.25/10k

What it meant

ἐμβολ-ή · embol-ē — LSJ

putting in, putting into, setting, reduction, mode of setting

putting in, Thphr. Od. 26 (pl.): esp. putting into its place, setting or reduction of a fracture or a dislocated limb, ἐμβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι Hp. Fract. 13; mode of setting, Id. Art. 2.

2 insertion

insertion of a letter, ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι Pl. Cra. 437a.

3 lading, shipment

lading of a cargo, PStrassb. 111.16 (iii B. C.), POxy. 62.11 (iii A. D.): esp. shipment of corn to Rome and Constantinople, BGU 15ii3 (ii A. D.), etc.; αἰσία ἐ. Just. Edict. 13.4.1.

II inroad into an enemyʼs country, foray

inroad into an enemyʼs country, foray, X. An. [4.1.4], HG 4.3.10; ἡ Θηβαίων ἐ. Arist. Pol. 1269b37.

2 charge

charge, of a bull, E. HF 869; of an army. X. Cyr. 7.1.18, Arr. Tact. 12.10.

b ramming of one ship by another, collision, such charges, them, shocks

esp. ramming of one ship by another, A. Pers. 279 (lyr.), 336; ἀντιπρῴροις χρῆσθαι ταῖς ἐ. Th. 7.36, etc. (opp. προσβολή, collision, ib. 70); ἐμβολὰς ἔχειν to receive such charges, X. HG 4.3.12; δοῦναι to make them, Plb. 1.51.6, etc.; in A. Pers. 415 ἐμβολαῖς χαλκοστόμοις with shocks of brazen beaks (nisi leg. ἐμβόλοις).

c shock

shock of battering-ram, Onos. 42.5 (pl.).

3 stroke, discharge

stroke or discharge of a missile, E. Andr. 1130, Plb. 8.7.3, Luc. Nigr. 36, etc.

4 entrance, pass, mouth

entrance, pass, X. HG 5.4.48; in Hdt. 1.191 ἡ ἐμβολὴ τοῦ ποταμοῦ is explained by the words τῇ ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἐσβάλλει; also, mouth of a river, Thphr. HP 4.11.8.

5 gusts

pl., gusts of wind, πνευμάτων σφοδρῶν ἐ. Ascl. Tact. 12.10.

III battering-ram

battering-ram, τὸ προέχον τῆς ἐ. Th. 2.76.

In the wild

ἐμβολαῖς · embolais Aeschylus, Persians 558–563
ἐμβολαῖς · embolais Aeschylus, Persians 278–282
ἐμβολαῖς · embolais Aeschylus, Persians 334–336
ἐμβολὴν · embolēn Euripides, Heracles 869
ἐμβολὴν · embolēn Plato, Cratylus 437 (DIORISIS sentence 1345)
ἐμβολήν · embolēn Thucydides, History 2.89.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1620)

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Where it came from

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