A.“-άσομαι” Ar.Eq.708: aor.1 “ἐξήρπαξα” Hom.(v.infr.), “ἐξήρπασα” Hdt.8.135, Plu.Comp.Per.Fab.2:—snatch away from, “φῶτ᾽ ἐξαρπάξασα νεός” Od.12.100; ἐ. τι παρά τινος Hdt.l.c.; “τι ἐκ χερῶν τινος” E.IA315; rescue, “τὸν δ᾽ ἐξήρπαξ᾽ Ἀφροδίτη” Il.3.380, cf. 20.443, 21.597; “τῆς πολιορκίας Μάριον” Plu. Sull.29:—Pass., to be carried off, οἱ μὲν ἐξηρπασμένοι σπεύδουσιν the captured ones are speeding on their way, S.OC1016 (s.v.l.): c.acc., ἐξαρπάζεσθαι τὸ νοτερόν to have the moisture forcibly drawn out, Pl.Ti.60d.
ἐξαρπάζω , fut.
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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