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ἐξερείπω ,
A.strike off, “ὄζους δρυὸς πελέκει” Pi.P.4.264.
II. more freq. intr. in aor. 2 ἐξήρι^πον, inf. ἐξερι^πεῖν:—fall to earth, “ὡς δ᾽ ὅθ᾽ ὑπὸ ῥιπῆς πατρὸς Διὸς ἐξερίπῃ δρῦς” Il.14.414; χαίτη ζεύγλης ἐξεριποῦσα the mane streaming downwards from the yoke-cushion, 17.440; [κάπροι] αὐχένας ἐξεριπόντες letting their necks fall on the ground, Hes.Sc. 174; fall down, Id.Th.704.—Mostly Ep., but ᾗ ἐξήριπε τὸ κάτηγμα where the fractured part projects, Hp.Off.12.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 174
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 704
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.414
    • Homer, Iliad, 17.440
    • Hippocrates, De officina medici, 12
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