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ἐξαιτ-έω ,
A.demand or ask for from another, c. dupl. acc., “τήνδε μ᾽ ἐξαιτεῖ χάριν” S.OC586, cf. E.Or.1657, Supp.120; ἐ. τινὰ πατρός ask her in marriage from . ., S.Tr.10; ἐ. τινά demand the surrender of a person, esp. a criminal, Hdt.1.74, cf. D.18.41 (Pass.), IG22.457b17 (iv B. C.); demand a slave for torture, Antipho6.27, Lys.7.36; “τὸν ἐλεύθερον ἐ.” D.29.14 (also ἐ. τὴν βάσανον ib.13); “ἐ. [τινὰ] βασανίζειν” Id.37.51; σμικρὸν ἐ. ask or beg for little, S.OC5; “ἐ. τινὰ ποιεῖν τι” Id.OT1255, E.Rh.175.
II. Med., ask for oneself, demand, Act., Hdt. 1.159,9.87, S.El.656, etc.; χάριν παρά τινος I.ys.20.31; “τινά” Ev.Luc. 22.31; πέμψον τὸν δαίμονα ὃν ἐξῃτησιάμην for whose aid I prayed, PMag.Par.1.434, cf. 1290.
2. in Med. also, = παραιτοῦμαι, beg off, gain his pardon or release, A.Ag.662, X.An.1.1.3, Lys.20.15 (Pass.), Plu.Per.32, etc.; “αὑτὸν ἐξαιτήσεται” D.21.99; also “ἐ. ὑπέρ τινος” make intercession for . ., E.Ba.360: c. inf., τοὺς κάτω . . ἐξῃτησάμην τύμβου κυρῆσαι I begged of them to allow me to obtain, Id.Hec. 49, cf. Med.971.
3. c. acc. rei, avert by begging, “τὰ πρόσθεν σφάλματα” Id.Andr.54; “τὰς γραφὰς παρανόμων” Aeschin.3.196.
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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