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ἐμποδ-ίζω , Att.fut.
A.“-ιῶ” Id.Ly.210b, later “-ίσω” Gp.2.49.1:—Med. (v. infr.11.2) :— Pass., fut. “-ποδισθήσομαι” Porph.Abst.1.17, Gal. ap. Orib.7.23.28, or (in med. form) “-ίσομαι” Antip.Stoic.3.256: pf. -πεπόδισμαι (v. infr.): (ἐν, πούς):—put the feet in bonds: hence, put in bonds, fetler, τοὺς “μάντιας” Hdt.4.69:—Pass., ἐμπεποδισμένος τοὺς πόδας ib.60; [ὀλιγοδρα^νίᾳ] ἐμπεπ. A.Pr.550(lyr.).
II. generally, hinder, thwart, “τὸ θεῖον ἐνεπόδιζέ με” Ar. Av.965, cf. Lys.359, X.Cyr.2.3.10; “τοὺς τῆς πόλεως καιρούς” Aeschin.3.223; ἐ. τοῦ ἰέναι to hinder from . . , Pl.Cra.419c; πρός τι in a thing, Isoc.Ep.4.11, Arist.Pol.1341a6, al., Ph.1.466:— Pass., “Χαἱ σοφαὶ γνῶμαι . . ἐμποδίζονται θαμά” S.Ph.432; ἐμποδίζοιτο ἂν μὴ πράττειν would be hindered from doing, Pl.Smp.183a; “τῆς εἰς τοὔμπροσθε πορείας” D.S.14.28.
2. c. dat. rei, to be a hindrance to, interfere with, “πολλαῖς ἐνεργείαις” Arist.EN1100b29; “ἀλλήλαις” Id.Pol. 1299b8; “ταῖς Χορηγίαις” Plb.5.111.4: c. dat. pers., “τοῖς γεωργοῖς” Gp.2.49.1; “τοῖς εἰς ἀρετὴν ἀφικνουμένοις” Porph.Ep.Aneb.26: rarely c. acc. rei, “ἐ. τὸ κοινὸν ἔργον” Arist.Top.161a37:—so in Med., “ἐμποδίζεται δόσιν” Philem.164.
3. abs., to be a check or hindrance, Arist.Pol.1288b24.
III. dub. in “κέχηνεν ὥσπερ ἐμποδίζων ἰσχάδας” Ar.Eq.755; prob. playing bob-fig, i.e. catching figs dangled by the stalk (πούς); Sch. and Lexx. also expl. as stringing, chewing, or trampling figs.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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