ἐπικλίνω
epiklinō
- to incline
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Glosses: to incline
1. to put a door to : Pass. perfect participle ἐπικεκλῖμέναι σανίδες closed doors, (Iliad by Homer)
2. to bend towards , τὰ ὦτα ἐπ. to prick the ears, (Xenophon Historicus):—; Pass. κεραῖαι ἐπικεκλιμέναι spars inclined at an angle to the wall, (Thucydides)
3. intransitive to incline towards , πρός τι (Demosthenes Orator)
4. Pass. to lie over against a place, with dative, (Euripides)
5. in Pass. also, to lie down at table , [variant datesAnthology Palantina (ML)