Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἐξίστημι

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2. metaph., ἐξιστάναι τινὰ φρενῶν drive one out of his senses, E.Ba.850; “νοῦ οἶνος ἐξέστησέ με” E.Fr.265; “τοῦ φρονεῖν” X.Mem.1.3.12; “ταῦτα κινεῖ, ταῦτα ἐξίστησιν ἀνθρώπους αὑτῶν” D. 21.72; simply ἐ. τινά drive one out of his senses, confound, amaze, Hp.Coac.429; “ἐξιστάντα καὶ φοβοῦντα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους” Muson.Fr.8p.35H.; “ἐξίστησι” diverts the attention, Arist.Rh.1408b23; excite, ib. 36, Ev.Luc.24.22; τὸν λογισμόν, τὴν διάνοιαν, Plu.Sol.21, Crass.23; also “ἐ. τινὰ τῶν λογισμῶν” Id.Fab.5; “εἰς ἀπάθειαν ἐ. τὴν ψυχήν” Id.Publ. 6.

3. get rid of, dispose of the claims of a person, Sammelb.5246.14(i B.C.), etc.

4. ἐξεστα^κότα （ἐξεστηκότα cod.): εἰς δίκην κεκληκότα, Hsch.

B. intr. in Pass. and Med., with aor. 2, pf., and plpf. Act.:

1. of Place, arise out of, become separated, “ἐξ . . ἵστατο Νεῖκος” Emp.36, cf. 35.10; stand aside from, ἐκστάντες τῆς ὁδοῦ out of the way, Hdt.3.76; “ἐκ τοῦ μέσου” X.An.1.5.14; θάκων καὶ ὁδῶν ἐ. [τινί] stand out of the way forhim, make way for him, Id.Smp.4.31; “ἐκστῆναί τινι” S.Ph.1053, Aj. 672, Ar.Ra.354, etc.: abs., in same sense, E.IT1229 (troch.), Ar. Ach.617, etc.: metaph., “ἐξ ἕδρας σοι πλόκαμος ἐξέστηχ᾽” is displaced, disordered, E.Ba.928; “οὐδὲ μένει νοῦς . . ἀλλ᾽ ἐξίσταται” S.Ant.564.

2. c. acc., shrink from, shun, “νιν οὐκ ἂν ἐξέστην ὄκνῳ” Id.Aj.82; “οὐδέν᾽ ἐξίσταμαι” D.18.319; “οὐδένα πώποτε κίνδυνον ἐξέστησαν” Id.20.10.

3. go out of joint, “ἐ. ἰσχίον” Hp.Aph.6.59, cf. Fract.14,6.

II. c. gen. rei, retire from, give up possession of, “τῆς ἀρχῆς” Th.2.63, 4.28; ἐκστῆναι τῆς οὐσίας, ἁπάντων τῶν ὄντων, become bankrupt, Antipho 2.2.9, D.36.50; “τῶν ὑπαρχόντων” BGU473.11 (ii A. D.).

2. cease from, abandon, τῆς φιλίας, τῶν μαθημάτων, Lys.8.18, X.Cyr.3.3.54; τῶν “σπουδασμάτων” Pl.Phdr.249c, etc.; “οἱ τῶν πολιτικῶν ἐξεστηκότες” Isoc. 4.171; “τῆς ὑποθέσεως” D.10.46; τῶν πεπραγμένων, i.e. disown them, Id.19.72; “ἐ. τινὸς εἴς τι” Pl.Lg.907d; also ἐ. ἄθλου τινί, στρατηγίας τινί, abandon it in his favour, Nic.Dam.73J., Plu.Nic.7; “τῆς Σικελίας τινι” Id.Pomp.10.

3. ἐκστῆναι πατρός lose one's father, give him up, Ar.V.477; καρδίας ἐξίσταμαι τὸ δρᾶν I depart from my heart's purpose, S.Ant.1105; esp. φρενῶν ἐκστῆναι lose one's senses. E.Or. 1021, etc.; “διὰ τὸ γῆρας τοῦ φρονεῖν” Isoc.5.18; “ἐμαυτοῦ” Aeschin.2.4, Men.Sam.276; “ψυχὴ ἐξεστηκυῖα τῶν λογισμῶν” Plb.32.15.8: abs., to be out of one's wits, be distraught, “ἐ. μελαγχολικῶς” Hp.Prorrh.1.18, cf. Men.Sam.64, etc.; “ἐξέστην ἰδών” Philippid.27; “ἐ. ὑπὸ γήρως” Com.Adesp.860; ταῖς διανοίαις Vett. Val.70.25; “ἐξίστασθαι καὶ μαίνεσθαι πρὸς τὴν ὀσμήν” Arist.HA577a12; of anger, “εὐθέως ἐξστησόμενος” Phld. Ir.p.78 W.; to be astonished, amazed, Ev.Matt.12.23, Ev.Marc.2.12, etc.; lose consciousness, of Sisera, LXXJd.4.21.

4. ἐξίστασθαι τῆς αὑτοῦ ἰδέας depart from, degenerate from one's own nature, Pl.R.380d; “ἐκ τῆς αὑτοῦ φύσεως” Arist.HA488b19; [“δημοκρατία] ἐξεστηκυῖα τῆς βελτίστης τάξεως” Id.Pol.1309b32; αἱ δημοκρατίαι ἐ. εἰς τὰς ἐναντίας πολιτείας degenerate into . ., ib.1306b18, cf. Rh.1390b28: abs., “ἐ. μὴ μεταφυτευόμενον” Thphr.HP6.7.6, etc., cf. Plu.2.649e; “χυμὸς ἐξιστάμενος” changing its properties, turning, Hp.VM24; οἶνος ἐξεστηκώς or ἐξιστάμενος changed, sour wine, D.35.32, Thphr.CP6.7.5; πρόσωπα ἐξεστηκότα disfigured faces, X.Cyr.5.2.34.

5. abs., change one's position, one's opinion, “ἐγὼ μὲν ὁ αὐτός εἰμι καὶ οὐκ ἐξίσταμαι” Th.2.61: opp. ἐμμένειν τῇ δόξῃ, Arist.EN1151b4.

6. of language, to be removed from common usage, Id.Rh.1404b13.

III. stand out, project, ἐξεστηκός convex, opp. κοῖλον, Id.HA493b4.

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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