A.“ἐκώλυ_σα” E.Alc.897 (anap.), Pl.Mx.244c; pf. “κεκώλυ_κα” Din.1.101, Phld.Rh.2.63 S.:—Pass., fut. “κωλυθήσομαι” LXX Si.20.2(1), Luc.VH2.25: also in med. form -ύσομαι Th.1.142: aor. “ἐκωλύθην” Id.2.64, etc.: pf. κεκώλυ_μαι ib.37. [υ_ always before a conson.: common before a vowel, “κωλυ_όμεσθα” E.Ion 391, “κωλυ_έτω” Id.Ph.990, κωλυ^εν Pi.P.4.33, “κώλυ^ει” Alc.55 ( = Sapph.22 Lobel), Ar.Eq. (v.infr.), Fr.100, Anaxil.25, Men.Epit.10.]:—hinder, prevent:—Constr.:
1. c. acc. et inf., “κ. ἐκρέειν τὸν Νεῖλον” Hdt. 2.20; κώλυεν [μιν] μεῖναι Pi.l.c.; τί δῆτα καὶ σὲ κωλύει <λαβεῖν> κέρδος; E.Fr.794, cf. IT507, etc.; “ὅς σε κ. τὸ δρᾶν” S.Ph.1241; “φεύγειν οὐδεὶς κ. νόμος” D.23.52: with neg. added (rare in Att. Prose), “κ. τινὰ μὴ θανεῖν” E.Ph.1268; “μὴ προσεύχεσθαι” X.HG3.2.22, etc.:— Pass., “χρημάτων σπάνει” Th.1.142; τοῦ ὕδατος πιεῖν from drinking the water, Pl.R.621b; “κωλυόμεσθα μὴ μαθεῖν” E.Ion 391; “μὴ οὐ πονηρὸν εἶναι” D.H.2.3.
b. rarely c. part. pro inf., “κ. τινὰ πόλεμον εἰσάγοντα” Id.7.25:—Pass., “μὴ κωλύωνται περαιούμενοι” Th.1.26.
c. with relat. clause, κωλύειν εἴ τις ἐπαγγέλλεται, = τινὰ μὴ ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι, D.4.15; ἐκωλύσαμεν, ἵνα γένησθε . . J.BJ6.6.2.
2. c. gen. rei, κ. τινά τινος hinder one from a thing, X.HG3.2.21, An.1.6.2, etc.; “κ. τινὰ ἀπό τινος” Id.Cyr.1.3.11, 3.3.51:—Pass., “τῆς ὁρμῆς ἐκωλύθησαν” Plb.6.55.3.
3. c. acc. rei, prevent, E.IA1390 (troch.), X.An.4.2.24:—Pass., “ἐν τούτῳ κεκωλῦσθαι ἐδόκει τὰ πράγματα” Th. 2.8, cf. 4.14; “ταῦτα . . μὴ ἐν ὑμῖν κωλυθῇ” Id.2.64; μηδὲ . . δαπάνῃ κεκωλύσθω let there be no hindrance by reason of expense, Id.1.129.
5. abs., “οὐδ᾽ ὁ κωλύσων παρῆν” S.Ant.261, cf. El.1197; “εἴσ᾽ οἳ κωλύουσιν” Ar.Pax499; of the tribune's intercessio, Plu.TG10; τὸ κωλῦον hindrance, X.An.4.5.20, D.1.12: freq. an inf. may be supplied, εἶτα τίς σε κωλύει (sc. γεωργεῖν); Ar.Fr.100; αὐτοὶ ὠφελούμενοι τοὺς πολεμίους κωλύσετε [ὠφελεῖσθαι] Th.6.91, cf. 2.37 (Pass.).
6. freq. in 3 pers., οὐδὲν κωλύει there is nothing to hinder, c. acc. et inf., “ὁμόψηφον τὸν Ἀργεῖον εἶναι κ. οὐδέν” Hdt.7.149; “οὐδέν σε κωλύσει σεαυτὸν ἐμβαλεῖν ἐς τὸ βάραθρον” Ar.Nu.1448, cf. Pl.Phdr.268e; “ὃν διαμάττειν οὐ κ.” Ar.Av.463; τί κ. ἡμᾶς διελθεῖν; Pl.Tht.143a, etc.; οὐδὲν κ., abs., as a form of assent, be it so, Ar.Eq.723, 972, Pl.Euthd.272d, etc.; τί γὰρ κ.; Id.Euthphr.9d, cf. Plt.292a, al.; “τό γ᾽ ἐμὸν οὐδὲν κ.” Id.Grg.458d; “μὴ τὸ σὸν κωλυέτω” E.Ph.990; “οὐ τἀμὰ κωλύσει” Plu.2.151c, etc.; οὔτε ἐκεῖνο κωλύει ἐν ταῖς σπονδαῖς neither is that any hindrance, Th.1.144 (wrongly expld. as = κωλύεται by D.H.Amm.2.7); οὔτε μίαν δυοῖν τὴν αὐτὴν εἶναι κ. nor is there any hindrance to one of two being the same, Arist.Ph.202b9.
