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ἐξωνέομαι ,
A.buy off, redeem, c. gen. vel dat. pretii, “χρημάτων τινὰς ἐ.” Arist.Oec.1352a13; “χρήμασι τοὺς κινδύνους” Lys.24.17; “ἀτιμίας μείζοσι τιμαῖς” Arist.Pol.1315a24, cf. PFay.21.20 (ii A. D.); “τρισχιλίων ἐ. παρὰ τῶν γονέων . . μὴ ἀπαχθῆναι” Luc.Peregr.9, cf. J.BJ1.18.4; redeem, “ἅπαντα τὰ σφάλματα ἑνὶ ὕψει καὶ κατορθώματι” Longin.36.2.
2. generally, buy (in impf., bid for, Hdt.1.196), ὁ ἐξωνούμενος the purchaser, Aeschin.3.66; bribe, Paus.4.17.3.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 66
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.196
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 1.18.4
    • Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension, 17
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4.17.3
    • Lucian, De morte Peregrini, 9
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