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ἐξίημι (v. ἵημι),
A.send out, let one go out, ἱππόθεν ἐξέμεναι (Ep. aor. 2 inf. for ἐξεῖναι) Od.11.531; “μηδ᾽ ἐξέμεν ἂψ ἐς Ἀχαιούς” Il.11.141; ἐπὴν γόου ἐξ ἔρον εἵην had dismissed, satisfied it, 24.227; πόθον prob. in Sapph.Supp.23.23; [“τοὺς ἐπικούρους] ἐξῆκε ἐπὶ τοὺς Πέρσας” Hdt.3.146; ἐ. ἱστίον let out the sail, Pi.P.1.91; ἐξιέναι πάντα κάλων (v. sub κάλως）; ἐ. ἀφρόν throw out or forth, E.Ba.1122; ἐ. ἐκ τῆς κοιλίης τὴν κεδρίην take it out, Hdt.2.87; ἐ. τι εἴς τι discharge it into . ., Pl.Ti. 82e.
2. intr., of rivers, discharge themselves, “ἐς θάλασσαν” Hdt. 1.6 (in 3sg. ἐξίει, cf. ib.180), al., Th.4.103.
II. Med., put off from oneself, get rid of, freq. in Hom. in the phrase “πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος ἐ. ἔρον ἕντο” Il.1.469, al.; “ἱμερτῶν ἔργων ἐξ ἔρον ἱέμενος” Thgn.1064.
2. send from oneself, divorce, “τὴν ἔχεις γυναῖκα ἔξεο” Hdt.5.39 (ἐκσέο codd.).
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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    • Euripides, Bacchae, 1122
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.6
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.87
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.146
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.39
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.141
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.469
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.227
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.531
    • Plato, Timaeus, 82e
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.103
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