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ἐξωθ-έω , aor. 1 ἐξέωσα (v. infr. 11),
A.thrust out, force out, “ἐκ δ᾽ ὦσε γλήνην” Il.14.494, cf. 17.618; even by pulling, wrench out, “ἐκ δ᾽ ἄρα οἱ μηροῦ δόρυ μείλινον ὦσε θύραζε” 5.694; displace, Hp.Art.46 (Pass.); expel, eject, banish, “γῆς τινά” S.OC1296; πάτρας ib.1330; put away a wife, PSI1.41.16 (iv A. D.); thrust back, “τοὺς δίκῃ νικῶντας” S.Aj.1248; drive, “τοὺς Αακεδαιμονίους ἐς τὰς ἁμάξας” Th.5.72; “πλοῖον εἰς αἰγιαλόν” Act.Ap.27.39, cf. Jul.Or.2.60c; “τὴν πόλιν εἰς χαλεπόν” Plu.Nic.12; “ἐ. εἰς ἅπαν ἀπὸ τῆς ὄχθης” Arr.An.1.15.4; “ἐ. νόμον” Plu.Comp.Ag. Gracch.5:—Pass., “ἐξωθέεσθαι ἐκ τῆς χώρης” Hdt.4.13, cf. 5.124; “μάχῃ” Id.6.83; “πατρίδος ἐξωθούμενος” S.OC428; ἐξωσθήσομαι εἰπεῖν shall be debarred from . ., D.24.61.
2. ἐ. γλώσσας ὀδύναν put forth painful words, break forth into cruel words, S.Ph.1142 (lyr.).
II. drive out of the sea, drive on shore, “τὰς ἄλλας [ναῦς] ἐξέωσαν πρὸς τὴν γῆν” Th. 2.90, cf. 8.104; “ἐς τὴν γῆν” Id.7.52:—Pass., “πνεύμασιν ἐξωσθέντες” E. Cyc.279 (cf. “ἐξώστης” 11): metaph., “ἐξωσθῆναι τῇ ὥρᾳ ἐς χειμῶνα” Th.6.34. (Late inf. “ἐξεοῦν” Just.Nov.59.4 Intr., pres. ind. Pass. “ἐξεοῦται” Cod.Just.1.2.24.6, formed fr. ἐξέωσα.）
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 61
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 11
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 279
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.13
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.124
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.83
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.694
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 1248
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1296
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    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 428
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1142
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.72
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.52
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.104
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.494
    • Homer, Iliad, 17.618
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.90
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.34
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 46
    • New Testament, Acts, 27.39
    • Plutarch, Nicias, 12
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 1.15.4
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