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ἔκλυ^τ-ος , ον,
A.easy to let go, light, buoyant, of missiles, E.Andr. 1133.
II. let loose, unbridled, “ἵμεροι” Ti.Locr.102e; lascivious, “φιλήματα” Lyd.Mag.3.65; unlimited, extreme, “βουλιμία” Timocl.13.3; “ἔ. καὶ βαρύ” Olymp.in Mete.198.12.
III. relaxed, unnerved, E.Tr. 1179, dub. in Eup.147; exhausted, Nic.Dam.p.98 D.; deprived of force, of an engine, Ph.Bel.85.10; weak, “κίνησις” Olymp.in Mete.169.2; “τόνος τοῦ φθέγματος” Luc.Im.13; diluted, watery, “οἶνος” Gp.7.1.4, cf. Gal.12.278; loose, of proof, Eudem. ap. Theo Sm.p.200 H.; mild (opp. σφοδρόν), “γυμνάσιον” Gal.6.156. Adv. “-τως” by being relaxed, Plu.Lyc.17; weakly, Agathin. ap. Gal.8.938.
IV. curing by λύσις (opp. κρίσις), “ἡμέραι” Gal.9.817.
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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