εἴργεσθαι (eirgesthai)

εἴργεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἔργω, meaning “shut in, keep out”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.67.4: καὶ ἄλλοι τε παριόντες ἐγκλήματα ἐποιοῦντο ὡς ἕκαστοι καὶ Μεγαρῆς, δηλοῦντες μὲν καὶ ἕτερα οὐκ ὀλίγα διάφορα, μάλιστα δὲ λιμένων τε εἴργεσθαι τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀθηναίων ἀρχῇ καὶ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἀγορᾶς παρὰ τὰς σπονδάς.

Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 40: … α, πρῶτον μὲν τῆς πατρίδος καὶ τῶν ἐν ταύτῃ πάντων καὶ ὁσίων καὶ ἱερῶν, τὴν ἐφορίαν ἀγορὰν ὅρον προσγράψας ἧς εἴργεσθαί φησιν, εἶτα τῶν ἱερῶν τῶν ἐν Ἀμφικτύοσιν· καὶ γὰρ τούτων, εἴπερ ἦν Ἕλλην ὁ παθών, μετῆν αὐτῷ. καὶ ἄθλων. διὰ …

All forms of ἔργω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.