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ἔξ-εδρος , ον, (ἕδρα)
A.away from home, opp. ἔντοπος, S.Ph.212 (lyr.); “πνεῦμα ἔ. γενόμενον ἐκ τῶν οἰκείων τόπων” Arist.Mu.395b32: metaph., strange, extravagant, Id.Rh.1406a31.
2. c. gen., out of, away from, “χθονός” E.IT80: metaph., ἔξεδροι φρενῶν λόγοι insensate words, Id.Hipp.935.
II. of birds of omen, ἔ. χώραν ἔχειν to be out of a good (i.e. in an unlucky) quarter, Ar.Av.275 (nisi leg. χρόαν cum Sch.); “ἔ. ὄρνιθες” D.C. 37.25.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 275
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 935
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 80
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 212
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