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ἔξοδος (A), ἡ,
A.going out, opp. εἴσοδος, S.Aj.798, 806, etc.; “ἐκ τῆς χώρης” Hdt.1.94; “ἔστι . . λήθη μνήμης ἔ.” Pl.Phlb.33e; “λήθη ἐπιστήμης ἔ.” Id.Smp.208a; “ἔ. τοῦ βίον” PLond.1.77.57 (vi A. D.).
2. marching out, military expedition, Hdt.9.19; κοιναὶ ἔ. ib.26; “ἔ. ποιεῖσθαι” Th. 3.5, etc., cf. Ar.Nu.579; τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἔ. ποιεῖσθαι, of Leonidas, Hdt.7.223; “ἔ. ἐξελθεῖν” X.HG1.2.17; “ἐξόδους ἕρπειν κενάς” S.Aj.287; “τὴν ἐπ᾽ Ὠρεὸν ἔ.” D.18.79; ἔ. πεζαί ib.100 (s. v.l.).
3. procession, Hdt.3.14; esp. of women of rank with their suite, “ἔ. γυναικεῖαι” Pl. Lg.784d, cf. Thphr.Char.22.10; “ἐξόδους λαμπρὰς ἐξιοῦσαν” D.48.55, cf. Lex Solonisap.Plu.Sol.21.
4. divorce, BGU1105.24 (i B.C.).
II. way out, outlet, “διὰ τῶν στεγέων” Hdt.2.148 (pl.), cf. Th.1.106, 2.4(sg.); “πυλῶν ἐπ᾽ ἐξόδοις” A. Th.33, cf. 58, 285; “πρὸς θυρῶνος ἐξόδοις” S.El.328; εἴσοδοι καὶ ἔ. entrances and exits, POxy.241.20 (i A. D.); of a river, “ἔ. ἐς θάλασσαν” Hdt.7.130; “ἡ Ἀρκαδία οὐκ ἔχει ἐξόδους τοῖς ὕδασιν εἰς θάλατταν” Arist.Pr.947a19.
b. esp. of the Jewish Exodus, LXXEx. tit., etc.
2. way out of a difficulty, Pl.R.453e.
3. of orifices in the body, ἡ ἔ. τοῦ περιττώματος, of the vent or anus, Arist.PA 675b9; “τῆς τροφῆς” Id.HA507a32, cf. 532b6; so of other orifices in the body, ib.511a27, etc.
4. delivery, “ἡ τοῦ ἐμβρύου ἔ.” Id.GA777a27, cf. 752b12; “πρὸς ἔξοδον ἔχειν” Lyd.Ost.44.
5. emission of semen, Arist.HA586a15, al.; κοιλίης ἔξοδοι discharges from the bowel, Aret. SD2.3.
III. end, close, ἐπ᾽ ἐξόδῳ εἶναι (of a truce) Th.5.14; “ἐπ᾽ ἐ. τῆς ἀρχῆς” X.HG5.4.4; ἐπ᾽ ἐ. （-ου vulg.) “τοῦ ζῆν” J.AJ4.8.2; “ἔ. τοῦ βίου” PLond.1.77.57: abs., departure, death, Ev.Luc.9.31, 2 Ep.Pet. 1.15, Arr.Epict.4.4.38.
2. end, issue of an argument, Pl.Prt. 361a.
b. decision of a court, BGU168.15 (ii A. D.).
3. end of a tragedy, i.e. all that follows the last choral ode, Arist.Po.1452b21; ἔξοδον αὐλεῖν play the chorus off the stage (their exit being led by an αὐλητής), Ar.V.582, cf.Sch.
IV. outgoing, payment of money, IG14.422 (Tauromenium), 5(1).1390.50 (Andania, i B. C.), Plb.6.13.2; opp. εἴσοδος, Test.Epict.6.34: pl., D.H.10.30.
V. street, LXX 2 Ki.22.43.
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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