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ἔκλειψις , εως, ἡ, (ἐκλείπω)
A.abandonment, νεῶν, πολίων, Hdt.6.25, 7.37; “τῆς πατρίδος” D.C.41.13.
II. (from intr.) of Sun or Moon, eclipse, “ἡλίου ἐκλείψεις” Th.1.23, cf. Arist.Metaph.1044b10, etc.; ἔ. τελεία, μερική, Cleom.2.6; εἰλικρινής ib.5: metaph. (with play on I), “βασιλέως” Plb.29.16.1, cf. Plu.Aem.17.
2. failing, cessation, “τῶν δυνάμεων” Id.2.433f (pl.), cf.Aret.SD1.7; extinction of a race, Str.9.5.12.
3. defect, omission, Id.5.3.7.
4. in Law, failing to appear in court, AB259.
5. ἔκλειψις χορίου retention of the afterbirth, Paul.Aeg.6.75.
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 (9):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.25
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.37
    • Strabo, Geography, 5.3.7
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.23
    • Polybius, Histories, 29.16.1
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.5.12
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.7
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 17
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 41.13
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