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εἴσοδος or ἔσοδος , ἡ,
A.entrance:
I. place of entrance, entry, Od. 10.90, Hdt.1.9, etc. ; ἐσόδους Φοίβου the entrance to his temple, E. Ion104 (anap.); of a mountain-pass, “ἡ διὰ Τρηχῖνος ἔ. ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα” Hdt.7.176 ; in a theatre, entrance for the Chorus, Ar.Nu.326, Av. 296, v. Sch.; entrance-door of a court of justice, Arist.Ath.63.2, etc. : metaph., καλῶν ἔσοδοι paths to glory, Pi.P.5.116.
II. entering, entrance, “εἴ. παρασχεῖν” X.HG4.4.7, etc. : pl., A.Eu.30.
2. entrance into the lists to contend in the games, ἱππείαν ἔ.(cf. εἰσέρχομαι II) Pi.P.6.50 ; also ἡ εἴ. τῆς δίκης εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον the introduction of it, Pl.Cri.45e.
3. right or privilege of entrance, “ἔσοδον εἶναι παρὰ βασιλέα ἄνευ ἀγγέλου” Hdt.3.118.
4. visit, “κακῶν γυναικῶν εἴσοδοι” E.Andr.930, cf. 952, Lys.1.20 ; of a doctor, Gal.16.523.
5. study, investigation, Vett. Val.259.7; ἀκροθιγεῖς τὰς εἰσόδους ποιήσασθαι ib. 222.11 ; also, method, ib.108.19.
III. that which comes in, revenue, opp. ἔξοδος, Plb.6.13.1, cf. IG14.423 (Tauromenium), 5(I).1390.64 (Andania), PPetr.3p.151.
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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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 30
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 296
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 63.2
    • Euripides, Andromache, 930
    • Euripides, Andromache, 952
    • Euripides, Ion, 104
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.9
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    • Homer, Odyssey, 10.90
    • Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 20
    • Plato, Crito, 45e
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.4.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.13.1
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 326
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