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ἐξαίσι-ος , ον, also α, ον X.HG4.3.8:—
A.beyond what is ordained or fated, opp. ἐναίσιος: hence,
1. outstepping right, lawless, ῥέξας ἐξαίσιον having done some lawless act, Od.4.690; ἦ τινά που δείσας ἐ. . . fearing some lawless man, 17.577; “Θέτιδος . . ἐ. ἀρήν” Il.15.598; “ἀφροσύναι” B.14.58.
2. of omens, portentous, opp. ἐναίσιος, D.C. 38.13: Sup., Id.45.17.
3. of things, extraordinary, “ἐ. τὸ θερμόν” Hp.Epid.7.94; violent, of a wind, Hdt.3.26, X.HG5.4.17; χειμών, σεισμοί, Pl.Ti.22e, 25c; “ὄμβροι” X.Oec.5.18; “ἐ. δεῖμα” A.Supp.514; “γέλωτες καὶ δάκρυα” Pl.Lg.732c: ἐ. φυγή headlong flight, X.HG4.3.8; “ἐ. βρονταί” Plb.18.20.7, cf. J.BJ4.4.5; “ὑπουργία” Vit.Philonid.p.5C.; “κάλλος” Ph.2.166; “χελῶναι ἐ. τοῖς μεγέθεσιν” D.S.3.21; “ἐ. τὸ μέγεθος καὶ τὸ ὕψος” Id.13.82. Adv. “-ίως” Them.Or.26.312d.
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 (18):
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 514
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 14.58
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 13.82
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.26
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.598
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.577
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.690
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 4.4.5
    • Plato, Laws, 732c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 22e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 25c
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.3.8
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.4.17
    • Xenophon, Economics, 5.18
    • Polybius, Histories, 18.20.7
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.21
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 38.13
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 45.17
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