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ἔξω , Adv. of ἐξ, as εἴσω of εἰς:
I. of Place,
1. with Verbs of motion, out or out of, “ἔ. ἰών” Od.14.526; “χωρεῖν ἔ.” Hdt.1.10; “πορεύεσθαι” Pl.Phdr.247b; “βλέπειν” D.18.323; ἔ. τοὺς χριστιανούς (sc. φέρε) Luc.Alex.38, etc.
b. as Prep., c. gen., “ἔ. χροὸς ἕλκε” Il.11.457; “ἔ. βήτην μεγάροιο κιόντε” Od.22.378; ἔ. or γῆς ἔ. βαλεῖν, A.Th. 1019, S.OT622, etc.: pleon. with “ἐκ, κραδίη δέ τοι ἔ. στηθέων ἐκθρῴσκει” Il.10.94; “ἐκ τῆς ταφῆς ἐκφέρειν ἔ.” Hdt.3.16, cf. E.Hipp.650: ἐκπλώσαντες ἔ. τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον sailing outside the H., Hdt.5.103; “ἔ. τὸν Ἑλλ. πλέων” 7.58.
2. without any sense of motion, outside, Od.10.95, etc.; τὸ ἔ. the outside, Th.7.69; τὸ ἔ. τῶν ὀμμάτων their prominency, Pl.Tht.143e; τὰ ἔ. things outside the walls or house, Th.2.5, X.Oec.7.30; external things, Pl.Tht.198c; τὰ ἔ. πράγματα foreign affairs, Th.1.68; οἱ ἔ. those outside, Id.5.14; of exiles, Id.4.66, cf. S.OC444 (but in NT, the heathen, 1 Ep.Cor.5.12); “ἡ ἔ. στηλέων θάλασσα ἡ Ἀτλαντὶς καλεομένη” Hdt.1.202, cf. Pl.Criti.108e; ἡ ἔ. θάλασσα, opp. ἡ εἴσω, Aristid.Or.40(5).9; ἔ. τὴν χεῖρα ἔχειν keep one's arm outside one's cloak, Aeschin.1.25.
b. as Prep., c. gen., οἱ ἔ. γένους, opp. τὰ ἐγγενῆ, S.Ant.660; “ἔ. τῶν κακῶν οἰκεῖν” Id.OT 1390; ἔ. τοξεύματος out of range of arrows, Th.7.30; ἔ. βελῶν, τῶν β., X.Cyr.3.3.69, An.5.2.26; ἔ. τοῦ πολέμου unconcerned with the war, Th.2.65; “τοῦ πάσχειν κακῶς ἔ. γενήσεσθε” D.4.34; τῶν ἔ. τοῦ πράγματος ὄντων persons unconcerned in the matter, Id.21.45, cf. ib.15; πράξεις ἔ. τῆς ὑποθέσεως λεγομένας away from the subject, Isoc.12.74; “ἔ. τοῦ πράγματος” Arist.Rh.1354a22; ἔ. τοῦ δικαστηρίου [ἔπαινοι] Luc.Hist.Conscr.59; ἔ. λόγου τίθεσθαι, θέσθαι, Plu.2.671a, Tim.36; ἔ. πάτου ὀνόματα out-of-the-way words, Luc.Hist.Conscr.44; ἔ. πίστεως beyond belief, Id.DMar.4.1; ἔ. φρενῶν out of one's senses, Pi.O7.47; “ἔ. ἐλαύνειν τοῦ φρονεῖν” E.Ba.853; “ἔ. σαυτοῦ γίγνῃ” Pl.Ion 535b; “ἔ. γνώμης” E.Ion926; οὐδὲν ἔ. τοῦ φυτεύσαντος δρᾷς unlike thy sire, S.Ph.904; ἔ. τῆς ἀνθρωπείας . . νομίσεως alien to human belief, Th.5.105: prov., αἴρειν ἔ. πόδα πηλοῦ keep clear of difficulties, Suid.; so “ἔ. κομίζων πηλοῦ πόδα” A.Ch.697; “πημάτων ἔ. πόδα ἔχειν” Id.Pr.265; “ἔ. πραγμάτων ἔχειν πόδα” E.Heracl.109.
II. of Time, beyond, over, “ἔ. μέσου ἡμέρας” X.Cyr.4.4.1; “ἔ. τῆς ἡλικίας” D.3.34; “ἔ. πέντ᾽ ἐτῶν” Id.38.18.
III. without, except, c. gen., “ἔ. σεῦ” Hdt.7.29, cf. 4.46; “ἔ. ἤ . .” Id.2.3, 7.228; “ἔ. τοῦ πλεόνων ἄρξαι” besides . ., Th.5.97, cf. 26; ἔ. τοῦ ἐφθακέναι ἀδικοῦντες except the being first to do wrong, Epist. Philipp. ap. D.18.39, cf. PSI6.577.17, PCair.Zen.225.4.
IV. τὰ κατὰ τὸν Φίλιππον ἔ. τελέως ἐστί, Philip is 'played out', Plb.5.28.4.— Cf. ἐξωτέρω, -τάτω.
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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