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ἐξαλλ-άσσω , Att. ἐξάλλ-ττω ,
A.change utterly or quite, strengthd. for “ἀλλάσσω, ἐσθῆτα” E.Hel.1297; “τινὰς κοσμήσεσι” Plu.Thes.23; “αἰὼν . . ἄλλ᾽ ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐξάλλαξεν” Pi.I.3.18.
b. intr., of evolution, “τὰ δὲ . . ἐξαλλάσσει ἐς τὴν μέζω τάξιν” Hp.Vict.1.6; “ἐ. γένος εἰς ἕτερον” degenerate, Thphr.HP8.8.3:—Pass., ἐξηλλαγμένος πρός τι ib.4.4.14.
c. Med., κακοῖσιν ὅστις μηδὲν ἐξαλλάσσεται who sees no change take place in his miseries, S.Aj.474:—Pass., “ἰδιωτικῆς ἑστίας ἐξηλλαγμένη ἡγεμονία” D.S.10 Fr. 20.
2. Rhet., vary common words and phrases, “ἐ. τὸ εἰωθός” Arist. Rh.1406a15, cf. 1404b8; ἐ. τὸ ἰδιωτικόν vary the common idiom, Id.Po.1458a21; ἐξηλλαγμένον [ὄνομα] altered form, ib.1458a5: c. gen., “ἐξηλλαγμένος τινός” different from, Isoc.8.63.
b. pf. part. Pass. “ἐξηλλαγμένος” extraordinary, strange, Plb.2.37.6, D.S.1.94, Ant.Lib. 41.8, etc.; varied, “ὄφεις ταῖς ποικιλίαις ἐ.” D.S.17.90.
3. c. acc. loci, withdraw from, leave, “Εὐρώπαν” E.IT135 (lyr.).
II. ἐ. τί τινος withdraw or remove from, “τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γύμνωσιν ἐ. τῶν ἐναντίων” Th.5.71.
2. intr., change from, “τῆς ἀρχαίας μορφῆς” Arist.GA 766a26; μικρὸν ἐ. exceed the limit by a little, Id.Po.1449b13; “ἐ. ἀπὸ τῆς νεώς” Philostr.Her.Prooem.3; “ἐς ἄνδρας” Id.VA3.28: abs., ἐξαλλάσσουσα χάρις unusual, rare grace, E.IA564 (lyr.); to be different from, “πάντων τῶν παρ᾽ ἡμῖν” Phld.Sign.9.
b. ἐξαλλάσσουσαι στολαί changes of raiment, v.l. in LXX Ge.45.22.
3. turn another way, move back and forward, “κερκίδα” E.Tr.200 (lyr.); ἐ. δρόμον change one's course, X.Cyn.10.7; ποίαν (sc. ὁδόν） ἐξαλλάξω; which other way shall I take? E.Hec.1060 (lyr.).
4. divert, amuse, Men.747, Philippid.35; coax, win over, “ὀψαρίοις” POxy.531.18 (ii A.D.).
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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    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1449b.13
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1458a.21
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1458a.5
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.90
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 10
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 1060
    • Euripides, Helen, 1297
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 564
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 135
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 200
    • Isocrates, On the Peace, 63
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 474
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.71
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 10.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.37.6
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 45.22
    • Plutarch, Theseus, 23
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.94
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 3.28
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