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ἐφεξῆς , Ion. ἐπεξῆς , poet. ἐφεξείης Orph.A.327, 357:—Adv.
A.in order, in a row, one after another, “ἵζεσθαι” Hdt.5.18; “χωρεῖν” E.Hel. 1390; “ἑστάναι” Ar.Ec.842, etc.; ἵστασθ᾽ ἐ. πάντες all in a row, Id.Fr. 66; “ἐ. ἐπὶ κέρως τεταγμέναι” Eub.67.4, Xenarch.4.6; “φάλαγγα βάθος ἐ.” X.HG7.5.23; “τὰ ἐ. λεγόμενα” Pl.Sph.261d; “ἵν᾽ ἐ. ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος ἴῃ” Id.Plt.281d; “τὰς πράξεις ἐ. διελθεῖν” Isoc.4.26; ἐ. ἀποκρίνεσθαι in a connected manner, Ruf.Interrog.2: c. Art., “ᾖα τὰς ἐ. [πολιτείας] ἐρῶν” Pl. R.449a, cf. Lg.696e; ἡ ἐ. γωνία the adjacent angle, Euc.1.14; αἱ ἐ. τομαί adjacent sections, of branches of a hyperbola and its conjugate, Apollon. Perg.Con.2.19; γραμμαὶ ἐ. κείμεναι a series of straight lines, Archim.Spir.10; ἡ ἐ. [οἰκία] next door, Men.Inc.2.31; “τὸ ἐ. ῥητέον” Pl.Phdr.239d, cf. Arist.Cael.281a28, etc.
2. c. dat., next to, Pl. Prm. 149a, al.; “τὸ ἐ. τούτοις” Id.Phlb.34d; “ἐ. τοῖς εἰρημένοις” Arist. Pol.1294a32: rarely c. gen., [γωνίας] Pl. Ti.55a.
II. successively, continuously, esp. with “πᾶς, ἐ. πάντας” X. Oec.12.10; “δῃοῦν πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐ.” Id.HG4.6.4; “τὴν Ἑλλάδα πᾶσαν ἐ. ἁρπάζειν” D.8.55; “μὴ τοῖς αἰτίοις, ἀλλὰ πᾶσιν ἐ. ὀργίζεσθαι” Id.Prooem.38.2.
2. less freq. of Time, “τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἐπεξῆς” Hdt.2.77, cf. Lys.19.52; “ἐ. τέτταρες” Ar. Ra.915; “δὶς ἐ.” Call. Epigr.37.
3. thereupon, immediately afterwards, “εὐθὺς ἐ.” D.18.31; “εἰσελθὼν οἴκαδε καὶ ἐ. οὑτωσὶ καθεζόμενος” Id.21.119.
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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