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διέξ-οδος , ἡ,
A.outlet, passage, Hp.Aph.7.51, Arist.PA684b26, etc.; “ἀποκεκληϊμένου τοῦ ὕδατος τῆς δ.” Hdt.3.117, cf. 4.140; διέξοδοι ὁδῶν passage-ways, Id.1.199; ἀνέμων διέξοδοι (through the body), S.Fr.477; “ὅταν πλεύμων μὴ καθαρὰς παρέχῃ τὰς δ.” Pl.Ti.84d, cf. 91c; way out from, Th. 3.98; “αἱ δ. τῶν ὁδῶν” Ev.Matt.22.9; of the main roads out of a town, Aristeas 105; δ. ὑδάτων, of a spring, LXX 4 Ki.2.21; of tears, ib.Ps. 118(119).136.
2. pathway, orbit, of the sun, Hdt.2.24; τρεῖς ἡλίου διέξοδοι three days, E.Andr.1086; of planets, Arist.Mu.399a3: metaph., “πολλὰς φροντίδων δ.” Henioch.4.5; δ. τῶν βουλευμάτων the paths of his counsels, Hdt.3.156; δ. τῆς φύσεως, τῆς οὐσίας, Ocell. 1.5, 12; [“ὁ νοῦς] ἔχων τὴν αὐτὴν διὰ τῶν οὐκ αὐτῶν δ.” Plot.6.7.13.
3. issue, event, “δ. λαβεῖν” Plb.2.1.3, etc.
4. means of escape, “πάσας δ. διεξελθών” Pl.R.405c; δ. πραγμάτων way out of difficulties, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.66.
5. Medic., evacuation, Hp.Prog.11, Gal.17(1).132 (pl.).
II. detailed narrative or description, ἡ τοῦ λόγου δ. the course of the narrative or argument, Pl.Criti.109a, cf. Prt.361d, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.250, Ph.1.407; exposition, Phld.Sign.38, Mus. p.110 K., al.; ἡ διὰ στοιχείου δ. description by resolving into elements, Pl.Tht.207c; κατὰ διέξοδον in detail, Aristid.Rh.1p.505S.; “δ. καὶ ἔπαινοι” narratives, tales, Pl.Prt.326a, etc.
III. military evolution, “δ. τακτικαί” Id.Lg.813e, cf. D.C.74.5.
2. excursion, Pl.Phdr. 247a.
3. repeated experiment, Gal.10.169.
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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    • Euripides, Andromache, 1086
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