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ἐξάλλομαι , fut.
A.“-α^λοῦμαι” LXXMi.2.12: aor. “-ηλόμην” S.OT1311 (lyr.), “-ηλάμην” Luc.Asin.53, Dor. “-άλατο” Theoc. (v. infr.); Ep. aor. part. -άλμενος (v. infr.):—leap out of or forth from, ἐξάλλεται αὐλῆς, of a lion, Il.5.142: elsewh. used by Hom. only in aor. part. ἐξάλμενος, abs., 15.571: c. gen., προμάχων ἐξάλμενος, τῶν ἄλλων ἐ. springing out from the midst of . ., 17.342, 23.399 (not in Od.); “ἐξάλατο ναός” Theoc.17.100; ἐ. κατὰ τοῦ τείχους leap down off . ., X. HG7.2.6: abs., jump, hop off, Ar.V.130, Act.Ap.3.8; ὦ δαῖμον, ἵν᾽ ἐξήλου; to what point didst thou leap forth, i.e. to what misery hast thou come ? S.OT1311 (lyr.); of fish, leap out of the water, Arist. HA602a29, cf. 528a32.
2. start from its socket, be dislocated, of a limb, “ἐ. ἔξαλσιν” Hp.Art.46; of a broken bone, Plu.2.341b; of wheels, start from the axle, X.Cyr.7.1.32.
II. leap up, Id.An. 7.3.33; “μήκιστα ἐ.” Ph.1.318; of horses, rear, X.Cyr.7.1.27.
2. “ἐξάλλετο γαστήρ” swelled, became distended, Call.Cer.88 (s. v.l.).
3. metaph., ἐ. πρός τι fly off to, have recourse to, Plu.2.382e.
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 (13):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 130
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.142
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 1 to Dionysus, 15.571
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 1 to Dionysus, 17.342
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 1 to Dionysus, 23.399
    • New Testament, Acts, 3.8
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1311
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 7.3.33
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.1.27
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 7.1.32
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 7.2.6
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 46
    • Old Testament, Micah, 2.12
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