κωλῦσαι (kolysai)

κωλῦσαι is an Ancient Greek form of κωλύω, meaning “hinder, prevent, forbid”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 112 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.93.4: … ν ἐπὶ μὲν τὸν Πειραιᾶ οὐκέτι, ὥσπερ διενοοῦντο, καταδείσαντες τὸν κίνδυνον (καί τις καὶ ἄνεμος αὐτοὺς λέγεται κωλῦσαι), ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Σαλαμῖνος τὸ ἀκρωτήριον τὸ πρὸς Μέγαρα ὁρῶν· καὶ φρούριον ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ ἦν καὶ νεῶν τριῶν φυλακὴ τοῦ …

Hippocrates, De articulis 71: … ρ εὖ καταταθῇ, ὑπεραιωρηθήσεται ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ μηροῦ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀρχαίης ἕδρης· καὶ ἢν μὲν ὑπεραιωρηθῇ οὕτως, οὐδὲ κωλύσαι ἔτι ῤηΐδιον ἵζεσθαι αὐτὴν ἐς τὴν ἑωυτῆς ἕδρην, ὥστε ἤδη πᾶσα ἀρκέει μόχλευσίς τε καὶ κατόρθωσις· ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐλλ …

All forms of κωλύω (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.