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ἔξειμι (A), (εἶμι
A.ibo) Ep. 2sg. ἔξεισθα (v. infr.); ἔξει wrongly expld. as imper. by Sch.Ar.Nu.633; Dor. 3sg. “ἔξειτι” Hsch.; inf. ἐξιέναι, also ἐξίναι Machoap.Ath.13.580c: serving as Att. fut. of ἐξέρχομαι, but with impf. ἐξῄειν, Ion. “ἐξήϊα” Hdt.2.139:—go out, come out, esp. out of the house, Hom. mostly in Od., “ἔξεισθα θύραζε” 20.179: c. gen. loci, “ἐξι^έναι μεγάρων” 1.374; “τῆς χώρας” S.OC909; so “ἐκ τῆς χώρης” Hdt.1.94; but ἐ. ἐκ τῶν ἱππέων leave the knights, quit service as one, ib.67; “ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐ.” D.C.60.10.
2. εἰς ἔλεγχον ἐξιέναι come forth to apply the test, S.Ph.98; but, submit to the test, Id.Fr.105; “λόγων . . εἰς ἅμιλλαν ἐξιών” E.Fr.334.
3. abs., “ἔξει” Ar.Nu.633; esp. march out with an army, Th.5.13, X.Cyr.3.3.20, etc.; “οἱ ἐξιόντες” Th.1.95: c. acc. cogn., ἐκδήμους στρατείας οὐκ ἐξῇσαν ib.15; “πολλοὺς ἀγῶνας ἐ.” S.Tr.159; ἐξόδους ἐ. go out in procession, D.48.55; “ἐ. ὑστάτην ὁδόν” E.Alc.610; ἐ. τὴν ἀμφίαλον (sc. ὁδόν) X.HG4.2.13; “τὰς πύλας” Ath.8.351d.
4. come forward on the stage, “οὑξιὼν πρώτιστα” Ar.Ra.946.
II. of Time or incidents, come to an end, expire, Hdt.2.139; “ὅταν περ τὸ κακὸν ἐξίῃ” S.Ph.767; “ἐξιούσης τῆς ἀρχῆς” Lys.9.6; ὅποι ἔξεισι τὰ ἴχνη where they cease, X.Cyn.8.3.
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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