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ἐξαιρ-ετός , ή, όν,
A.removable, Hdt.2.121.“ά; βάλανοι” Aen.Tact. 20.3; “στελεοί” J.AJ3.6.6; ἐξαίρετα, τά removable parts of a machine, Orib.49.5.81.
II. ἐξαίρετος, ον, taken out, and so,
1. picked out, chosen, choice, “κοῦροι Ἰθάκης ἐξαίρετοι” Od.4.643; “γυναῖκες” Il.2.227; “ἕνα ἐ. ἀποκρίνειν” Hdt.6.130; esp. of booty and things given as a special honour, not assigned by lot, “χρημάτων ἐ. ἄνθος” A.Ag.954; “δώρημα” Id.Eu.402, etc.; “ἐ. τι ἐκτῆσθαι” Hdt.8.140.“β́; ἐ. οἰκόπεδον” SIG 141.5 (Issa, iv B. C.); “διδόναι” X.Cyr.8.4.29; “δίδοσθαι” Hdt.2.98, 3.84.
2. excepted, “ἐ. τίθημι τὴν ἀκουσίαν” S.Fr.746; “ποιεῖσθαι” Th.3.68, cf. D.40.14; “ἐ. μοι δὸς τόδ᾽” E.IT755; “οὐδ᾽ ἐστὶν ἐ. ὥρα τις ἣν διαλείπει” D.9.50, cf. D.H.6.50; τριήρεις ἑκατὸν ἐξαιρέτους ἐψηφισάμεθα εἶναι to be set apart for special service, And.3.7; “χίλια τάλαντα ἐ. ποιήσασθαι” Th.2.24.
3. special, singular, remarkable, “ἐ. μόχθος” Pi.P. 2.30; “οὐδὲν ἐ. οὐδ᾽ ἴδιον πεποίημαι” D.18.281; “ἐ. αὑτῷ τυραννίδα περιποιεῖσθαι” Aeschin.3.89; “βασιλείαν ἐ. αὑτοῖς παρ᾽ ἐκείνων ἔλαβον” Isoc. 6.20; στρατηγία ἐ. extraordinary praetorship, Plu.Cat.Mi.39; τούτῳ μόνῳ ἐξαίρετόν ἐστι ποιεῖν ὅτι ἂν βούληται he alone has the special privilege . ., Lys.10.3, cf. D.19.247; “κατ᾽ ἐξαίρετον” specially, POxy.907.10 (iii A. D.), etc.; par excellence, Eustr.in EN348.1; “ἐ. τινος” peculiar to, Jul. Or.1.5c; “ἰδιότητος” Procl.Inst.21.
III. ἐξαίρετα, τά, = ἀναλώματα, Ath.Mitt.13.249 (CR40.18), Heberdey-Wilhelm Reisen in Kilikien p.161.
IV. Adv. -τως specially, “φίλανδρος” IG12(7).395.14 (Amorgos), cf. Plu.2.667f, POxy.1675.6, etc.; in a special degree, Arr. Epict.1.6.12; “ὃν ἐ. τῶν φίλων στέργω” BMus.Inscr.481*.393 (Ephesus, ii A. D.); exclusively, characteristically, A.D.Synt.194.1; for choice, for preference, PMag.Lond.121.652.
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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