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ἐξαίρ-εσις , εως, ἡ,
A.taking out the entrails of victims, Hdt.2.40: pl., the entrails themselves, offal, Dionys.Com.3.12; extraction of teeth, Arist.Mech.854a25, Paul.Aeg.6.28; of weapons, Gal.2.283; taking out of patients from a bath, Philum.Ven.15.8.
b. removal, purgation, “τῶν παθῶν” Porph.Abst.2.43.
2. way of taking out, “τὴν ἐ. τοῦ λίθου” Hdt.2.121.ά.
3. Rhet., taking exception, questioning of an adversary's arguments, Ulp. ad D.24.66.
b. in Law, = Lat. exceptio, Just.Nov.136.2.
4. transcendence, “τοῦ ἐνδεοῦς” Dam.Pr. 13.
II. place where cargoes are landed, wharf, Hyp.Fr.186, PTeb. 5.26 (ii B. C.).
III. as law-term, ἐξαιρέσεως δίκη action against one who has asserted the free birth of a slave, Is.Fr.70.
IV. killing, “ὑός” Str.8.6.22.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 66
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.121
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.40
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.6.22
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