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εἰσβαίνω ,
A.go on board a ship, mostly abs., embark, Od.9.103, Th.7.13, etc. ; “ἐς [πεντηκόντερον]” Hdt.3.41 : c. acc., “σκάφος” E.Tr.686.
2. generally, enter, “πρὸς κόρης νυμφεῖον εἰ.” S.Ant.1205 ; “δόμους” E.Med. 380 ; εἰ. κακά come into miseries, S.OC997 ; “ἄτης ἄβυσσον πέλαγος” A. Supp.470 ; reversely, “ἐμοὶ γὰρ οἶκτος.. εἰσέβη” S.Tr.298 ; “κἀμὲ γὰρ τὸ δυσχερὲς τοῦτ᾽ εἰσβέβηκεν” E.Hyps.Fr.5(3).20.
3. come in, be imported, “εἰσέβαινον ἰσχάδες” Alex.117.
4. project into, PTeb.86.24 (ii B.C.), etc.
II. causal in aor. 1, make to go into, put into, ἐς δ᾽ ἑκατόμβην βῆσε θεῷ (sc. ἐς νῆα) Il.1.310, cf. E.Alc.1055 (lyr.), Ba. 466 ; “ληΐδα” A.R.2.167.
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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