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ἐξηγ-ητής , οῦ, ὁ,
A.one who leads on, adviser, “πρηγμάτων ἀγαθῶν” Hdt.5.31 codd.; “οὑτοσὶ δὲ . . ἁπάντων ἦν τούτων ὁ ἐ.” D.35.17.
II. expounder, interpreter, esp. of oracles, dreams, or omens, Hdt.1.78; at Athens, of sacred rites or customs, modes of burial, expiation, etc., spiritual director, Pl.Euthphr.4d,9a, Lg.759c, 759e, 775a, D.47.68, Is.8.39, Thphr.Char.16.6: as an official title, “ἐ. Πυθόχρηστος” IG3.241; ἐ. ἐξ Εὐπατριδῶν ib.267; “ἐ. ἐξ Εὐμολπιδῶν” Lys.6.10, etc., cf. Suid.s.v.; πάτριος ἐ., of Apollo, Pl.R.427c.
b. at Rome, of the pontifices, D.H.2.73.
2. guide, cicerone, to temples, etc., Paus.5.15.10, SIG1021.20 (Olympia).
3. commentator, Gal. 15.518, Mich.in EN50.8.
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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