Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἐξηγ-έομαι

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3. c. dat. pers. et acc. rei, show one the way to, “τοῖσι ἐχθροῖσι τῆς πατρίδος ἅλωσιν” Hdt.6.135; “ἃ δ᾽ ἐξηγεῖσθε τοῖς ξυμμάχοις” Th.3.55: c. dat. pers. only, go before, lead, “ἡμῖν” S.OC1589, etc.: c. acc. loci only, lead the way to, χῶρον ib.1520.

4. c. gen. rei, “ἐ. τῆς πράξεως” X.Cyr.2.1.29; with dat. pers. added, “πᾶσι κάλλους τε καὶ τελειότητος” Jul.Or.4.132d.

5. ἐ. εἰς τὴν Ἑλλάδα lead an army into Greece, X.An.6.6.34.

II. dictate a form of words, “ἐ. τὸν νόμον τῷ κήρυκι” D.19.70; ἐξηγοῦ θεούς dictate, name them, E.Med.745.

2. generally, prescribe, order, “ποιήσουσι τοῦτο τὸ ἂν κεῖνος ἐξηγέηται” Hdt. 5.23; “ὅ τι χρὴ ποιέειν ἐξηγέο σύ” Id.4.9, cf. 7.234; “ᾗ ὁ νόμος ἐξηγεῖται” Pl.R.604b: of a diviner, c. inf., order one to do, A.Eu.595; “τἄλλα δ᾽ ἐξηγοῦ φίλοις” Id.Ch.552; esp. freq. of religious forms and ceremonies, οἷς τῶν ἄλλων θεῶν οἱ Μάγοι ἐξηγοῦντο, = τοῖς ἄλλοις θεοῖς οὕς . . X.Cyr.8.3.11, cf. 4.5.51,7.3.1; “τί φῶ; δίδασκ᾽ ἄπειρον ἐξηγουμένη” A.Ch.118, cf. S.OC1284, etc.; “οὗτος ὁ θεὸς περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα . . ἐ.” Pl.R. 427c, cf. 469a.

3. expound, interpret, “ἐ. τὸ οὔνομα καὶ τὴν θυσίην” Hdt.2.49; “τὸν ποιητήν” Pl.Cra.407a; “ἃ Ὅμηρος λέγει” Id.Ion531a; “ὁ τὸν Ἡράκλειτον . . ἐξηγούμενος” Antiph.113.3; “τὰ νόμιμα” D.47.69: abs., ἄγραφοι νόμοι καθ᾽ οὓς Εὐμολπίδαι ἐξηγοῦνται according to which they expound things, Lys.6.10, cf. And.1.116 (leg. κηρύκων ὤν); cf. “ἐξηγητής” 11.

III. tell at length, relate in full, Hdt.2.3, A.Pr.216, 702, Th.5.26; set forth, explain, τὴν ἔλασιν the line of march, Hdt. 3.4, 7.6; “ἃ μετὰ χεῖρας ἔχοι καὶ -ήσασθαι οἷός τε” Th.1.138; “τὰ τοῦ νομοθέτου βουλήματα” Pl.Lg.802c, cf. R.474c: c. acc. et inf., explain that . ., S.Aj.320: folld. by relat., “ἐ. ὁτέῳ τρόπῳ . .” Hdt.3.72. etc.; “ἐ. περί τινος” X.Lac.2.1.

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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