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ἐξαγωγ-εύς , έως, ὁ,
A.one who leads out troops, D.S.15.38, also of the queen-bee, Arist.HA625a22.
II. = ἐξαγωγίς, Gloss. -ή, ἡ, leading out of troops, X.Eq.Mag.4.9 (pl.), Plb.5.24.4 (pl.).
2. drawing out of a ship from shallows, Hdt.4.179.
3. carrying out, exportation, “πωγεῖν ἐπ᾽ ἐξαγωγῇ” Id.5.6, cf. 7.156; ἐξαγωγὴν δοῦναι, παρέχεσθαι, grant a right of exporting, Isoc.17.57, Pl.Lg.705b; ἐ. λαβεῖν τοῦ σίτου receive an export licence, D.34.36, cf. PCair.Zen.93.13 (iii B.C.); ἐπ᾽ ἐξαγωγῇ for removal from the country, for deportation, “ἀδελφὴν ἐπ᾽ ἐ. πέπρακε” D.24.203, cf. 25.55; ἐ. σίτου, σιτική, Plb.28.2.2, 28.16.8.
4. evacuation, Arist.Pr.869b28; “αἱ κατὰ φύσιν ἐ.” Plu.2.134c.
5. intr., going out: hence, ending of a thing, “τῶν παρόντων κακῶν” Plb.2.39.4, etc.; ἐ. ἐκ τοῦ ζῆν, ἐ. βίου, departure from life, Epicur.Sent.20, Sent.Vat.38; ἐ. alone, suicide, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.188, Varro Sat.Men.p.227 B., etc.
6. the Exodus, Ph.1.438, al.; title of poem by Ezekiel.
II. as law-term, ejectment, Is.3.22, D.44.34.
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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