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ἐξελίσσω , Att. ἐξέλ-ττω ,
A.unroll, unfold, “περιβολὰς σφραγισμάτων” E. Hipp.864; “ταρσούς” Aen.Tact.29.8; “χάρτην” HeroAut.26.8: metaph., unfold, θεσπίσματα, λόγον, E.Supp.141, Ion397; “θεῖον νόμον” Porph. Marc.26; “οὐδ᾽ ἄρα [τὸν αἰῶνα] ἐξελίξεις” Plot.3.7.6; “προσελθοῦσα ἡ πηλικότης ἐξελίττει εἰς μέγεθος τὴν ὕλην;” Id.2.4.9:—Pass., ὁ . . κύκλος . . ἴσην ἐξελίττεται γραμμήν is unrolled so as to form a line, Arist.Mech. 855a29, cf. Pr.914a30, HeroAut.25.3.
2. of any rapid motion, ἴχνος ἐ. ποδός evolve the mazy dance, E.Tr.3; “χορείαν” Aristid.1.97 J.; ἐ. τινὰ κύκλῳ hunt one round and round, E.HF977; ἐ. κύκλους περί τινα wheel in circles round him, Hld.5.14; ἐ. τὸν αὑτῆς κύκλον [ἡ σελήνη] Plu.2.368a; of the hare, “δρόμον ἐ.” double, Arr.Cyn.17.3:— Pass., -ιχθῆναι τοὺς ἑλιγμούς ib.21.3; wheel about, “ἐπὶ δεξιά” Plu.Cam. 5, cf. Tim.27: c. acc. loci, τοὺς κόλπους ἐ. follow the windings of the bays, App.BC5.84; “ἐ. τὴν τάφρον” Plu.Pyrrh.28.
b. intr. in Act., Arr.Cyn.25.2; “ἐξελίττει τῇ καὶ τῇ” Ael.NA13.14 (also ἐ. ἑαυτόν escape, ib.3.16); of ships, “παρὰ τὴν γῆν -ξασαι διέφυγον” Plb.1.28.12, cf. 1.51.11.
3. evolve, in Pass., “ζωὴ ἐξελιττομένη εἰς τέλος” Plot.1.4.1; “ὅσα τὰ πολλά, τοσαῦτα τὸ ἕν, ἀφ᾽ οὗ ἐξελίττεται” Dam.Pr.4.
II. as military term, = ἀναπτύσσειν, extend the front by bringing up the rear men, deploy, “τὴν φάλαγγα” X.Cyr.8.5.15, HG4.3.18; “ἐξελίττεται ὁ στίχος” Id.Lac.11.8.
b. countermarch, Ascl.Tact.10.13, etc.
c. generally, manoeuvre, Arr.Tact.25.6:—Med. or Pass., ib.16.8.
2. extricate, “τὴν δύναμιν τῶν στενῶν” Plu.Alex.20.
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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