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ἐξαν-ίημι , poet. impf.
A.“ἐξανίεσκον” A.R.4.622: fut. ἐξανήσω, also “-ήσομαι” E.Andr.718: pf. part. Pass. “-ειμένος” Orib.46.19.20:—send forth, let loose, “εὔπρηστον ἀϋτμὴν ἐξανι^εῖσαι” Il.18.471; [ὀδμήν] A.R.l.c.; “ἐξανῆκε γᾶ ὄψιν” E.Ph.670 (lyr.); “κρήνην ἐξανῆκ᾽ οἴνου θεός” Id.Ba.707; ἐ. αἷμα make it spout forth, Id.IT1460; [ῥόον] Call.Del.207; ἀρὰς σφῷν ἐξανῆκα I have sent forth curses against you, S.OC1375.
b. c. gen., send forth from, “τίς σε πολιᾶς ἐξανῆκεν γαστρός;” Pi.P.4.99; “θύρσους ἐξανι_εῖσαι χερῶν” E.Ba.762; “νάματ᾽ ὄσσων μηκέτ᾽ ἐξανίετε” Id.HF 625.
2. let go, Id.IA372; “τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐ.” relax, slacken, Plu.Cat. Ma.11:—Pass., to be set free from, “πόνων” Hp.Nat.Hom.12: abs., Ph. 2.371.
3. loosen, undo, “στροφίδας” E.Andr.718:—Pass., Plu.2.788b.
4. dilute, Herasap. Gal.13.795:—Pass., pf. part. “-ειμένος” Orib. l.c.
II. intr., slacken, relax, Hp.Nat.Hom.7; ἁνίκ᾽ ἐξανείη . . ἄτα (Herm. for ἐξανίησι) S.Ph.705: c. gen., “ὀργῆς ἐξανεὶς κακῆς” E. Hipp.900.
2. burst forth from, γῆς, of a river, A.R.4.293: abs., of seed, spring up, Arist.Mir.833b2.
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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