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ἐξαν-ύω , Att. ἐξαν-ύτω [υ^], fut. -ύσω [υ^] (v. infr.), but Ep. fut.
A.“-ύω” Il.11.365: pf. inf. “ἐξηνυ_κέναι” Critias 16.14:—accomplish, make effectual, “Θέτιδος δ᾽ ἐξήνυσε βουλάς” Il.8.370; “θεῶν θέσμι᾽ ἐξήνυσε” S.Aj.712 (lyr.); ἔμελλες ἐξανύσειν κακὰν μοῖραν ib.926 (lyr., -ύσσειν cod. Med.); “τί μοι ἐξανύσεις χρέος;” Id.OT156 (lyr.); “πάθεα” E.Ion1066 (lyr.); “λειτουργίαν” POxy.904.8 (v A. D.):—Med., accomplish or finish for oneself, “κακῶν μῆχος” E.Andr.536 (lyr.); “τέκνοις τάφον” Id.Supp.285 (dact.).
2. finish, dispatch, i. e. kill, ἦ θήν σ᾽ ἐξανύω (fut.) Il.11.365; “κενταυροπληθῆ πόλεμον” E.HF1273.
b. conquer, “ἔθνη” App.Ill.15.
3. of Time and Distance, bring to an end, finish, accomplish, “βίοτον” S.Tr.1022 (dact.); “ἁμέραν τάνδε” E.Med.649 (lyr.); δρόμον, ἴχνος, πόρον, Id.Ph. 163 (lyr.), Tr.232 (lyr.), IT897 (anap.): abs. (like “ἀνύω” 1.6). finish one's way to a place, arrive at it, ἐς or ἐπὶ . ., Hdt.6.139,7.183: also c. acc. loci, ἐξανύσαι τὰν νεκρῶν πλάκα (Vauvill. for ἐκτανύσαι) S.OC 1562; “πόλον ἐξανύσας” E.Or.1685 (anap.).
4. c. inf., manage to do, “ἐ. κρατεῖν” Id.Hipp.400.
5. Med., obtain, borrow, “τι παρά τινος” Id.Ba.131 (lyr.).
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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