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ἐγκατα-λείπω ,
A.leave behind, “παῖδα” Hes.Op.378; “ἐ. φρουρὰν ἐν τῇ νήσῳ” Th.3.51; “πλεῖον ἐ. ἐξιόντες ἐκ τῆς ὠνῆς” PRev.Laws 53.12; ἐ. τὸ κέντρον, of a bee, Pl.Phd.91c: hence of Pericles, “τὸ κέντρον ἐγκατέλιπε τοῖς ἀκροωμένοις” Eup.94.7; “ἐ. τὴν μάχαιραν ἐν τῇ σφαγῇ” Antipho 5.69.
2. leave in the lurch, Pl.Smp. 179a, Lycurg.2, D.57.58, Ev.Matt.27.46, Lyr.Alex.Adesp.4.22, etc.; abandon, “νεκροὺς” Th.4.44; “ἀκρόπολιν” X.HG5.4.13.
3. leave out, omit, Hdt.3.119.
4. leave traces behind, Epicur.Nat.Herc. 1420.
II. Pass., to be left behind in a race, Hdt.8.59.
2. leave residual symptoms or sequelae, Hp.Epid.6.2.6, 6.7.7.
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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    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 69
    • Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, 58
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.59
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.119
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 378
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 2
    • Plato, Phaedo, 91c
    • Plato, Symposium, 179a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.44
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.4.13
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.51
    • New Testament, Matthew, 27.46
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