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ἐξι^σ-όω ,
A.make equal or even, bring to a level with, “τινί τινα” S.OT425; μηδ᾽ ἐξισώσῃς τάσδε τοῖς ἐμοῖς κακοῖς ib.1507; “ἐ. τοῖς μεγίστοις ἐγκλήμασι τὸ πρᾶγμα” Antipho4.2.1; ἐ. ζυγά bring the teams abreast, S.El.738:—Med., make oneself equal, “δράκοντι μῆκος ἐξισουμένην σαύραν” Babr.41.2:—Pass., to be or become equal, c. dat., Hdt. 2.34,6.111, Pl.R.563a, etc.; to be reduced to a level with, “τινί” Hdt.8.13; to be a match for, rival, Th.2.97, D.S.2.52; “πρός τινα” Plu.Agis 7.
2. put on a level, “τοὺς πολίτας” Ar.Ra.688, cf. Isoc.4.91, Arist. Mu.397a8 (Pass.).
3. Pass., φύλοπις οὐκέτ᾽ ἐξισοῦται is levelled, equalized, i.e. resolved in harmony, S.El.1072 (lyr.); lit., “ἐξισωθέντος τοῦ μέχρι τῶν τειχῶν διαστήματος” levelled, J.BJ5.3.5.
II. intr., to be equal or like, μητρὶ δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἐξισοῖ acts in no way like a mother, S. El.1194; “ἐ. τοῖς ἄλλοις” Th.6.87; τισί make a line of battle equal to the enemy's, Id.5.71.
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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