Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἔξοχ-ος

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II. more freq. metaph., eminent, excellent, “ἔξοχον ἄνδρα” Il.2.188; “αἶσα” Pi. N.6.47: Comp. -ώτερος ib.3.71: Sup. -ώτατος ib.2.18, A.Ag.1622, E.Supp.889; “τῶν φίλων τὸν -ώτατον” Phld.Lib.p.20O.; ἐξοχώτατος, = Lat. eminentissimus, “ἔπαρχος ογι” 640.16 (iii A.D.), POxy.1469.1 (iii A.D.), cf. IG14.2433 (Massilia, iii A.D.); “οἱ -ώτατοι τῆς βουλῆς” Hdn.2.12.6.

b. c. gen., standing out from, raised above, freq. used like a Sup., most eminent, mightiest, “ἔξοχος ἡρώων” Il.18.56; “τέμενος τάμον ἔ. ἄλλων” 6.194, etc.; “βοῦς ἀγέληφι μέγ᾽ ἔ. ἔπλετο πάντων” 2.480; “ἀριθμὸν ἔ. σοφισμάτων” A.Pr.459; “οὐδεὶς ἔ. ἄλλος ἔβλαστεν ἄλλου” S.Fr.591; ἁπάσης νοῦν τε καὶ ἀνορέαν ἔξοχος ἡλικίας beyond all his contemporaries, IG12.1021.

c. c. dat., αἶγας . . αἳ πᾶσι μέγ᾽ “ἔξοχοι αἰπολίοισιν” Od.21.266, cf. 15.227; also “ἐκπρεπἔ ἐν πολλοῖσι καὶ ἔξοχον ἡρώεσσιν” Il.2.483.

2. freq. in Hom. in pl., ἔξοχα as Adv. (cf. ὄχα), especially, above others, “ὅς κ᾽ ἔ. μὲν φιλέῃσιν, ἔ. δ᾽ ἐχθαίρῃσιν” Od.15.70, cf. Il.5.61; “ἔ. λυγρὰ ἰδυῖα” Od.11.432; ἐμοὶ δόσαν ἔ. gave me as a high honour, 9.551: with Sup., ἔξοχ᾽ ἄριστοι beyond compare the best, Il.9.638, Od.4.629, al.

b. c. gen., ἔ. πάντων far above all, Il.14.257, etc.; “ἔξοχ᾽ ἑταίρων” Pi.P.5.26; ἔ. πλούτου above all wealth, Id.O.1.2.—Regul. Adv.-χως ib.9.69, E.Ba.1235, Lyc.1195, Arist.Mu.400b1, LXX 3 Ma.5.31: Comp. “-ώτερον” Sor.1.99: Sup. “-ώτατα” Pi.N.4.92.

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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