ἐμβόλων (embolon)

ἐμβόλων is an Ancient Greek form of ἔμβολος, meaning “linch-pin; tongue”. It is the genitive plural noun.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.40.5: οἱ δὲ Συρακόσιοι δεξάμενοι καὶ ταῖς [τε] ναυσὶν ἀντιπρῴροις χρώμενοι, ὥσπερ διενοήθησαν, τῶν ἐμβόλων τῇ παρασκευῇ ἀνερρήγνυσαν τὰς τῶν Ἀθηναίων ναῦς ἐπὶ πολὺ τῆς παρεξειρεσίας, καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν καταστρωμάτων αὐτο …

Plutarch, Brutus 52.4: ἐμβολὼν δὲ τὴν δεξιὰν ἑκάστῳ μάλα φαιδρός ἥδεσθαι μὲν ἔφη μεγάλην ἡδονήν ὅτι τῶν φίλων αὐτὸν οὐδεὶς ἐψεύσατο, τῇ τύχῃ δʼ ἐγκαλεῖν ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος·

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 4.8·2: … ῳδίοις, διὰ δυσπλοιῶν καὶ ναυαγίων ἢ πάλιν δυσοδιῶν καὶ ἐρήμων τόπων· ἐν δὲ τοῖς στερεοῖς, διὰ κρημνισμῶν καὶ ἐμβολῶν πνευμάτων· ἐν δὲ τοῖς τροπικοῖς καὶ ἰσημερινοῖς δἰ ἔνδειαν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων καὶ νοσώδεις καταστάσεις· ἐν δὲ τοῖ …

All forms of ἔμβολος (declension 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.