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ἐκφορ-ά , ἡ, (ἐκφέρω)
A.carrying out, esp. of a corpse to burial, A. Th. 1029, Ch.9,430 (lyr., pl.), Th.2.34; “ἐπ᾽ ἐκφορὰν βαδίζειν” Ar.Pl.1008; “ἐπ᾽ ἐ. ἀκολουθεῖν τινί” Lys.1.8; also of meats at a sacrifice, Theopomp. Com.70, Euphro 1.20, prob. in Ar.Pl.1138; “τῶν κρεῶν μὴ εἶναι ἐ. ἔξω τοῦ τεμένεος” IG7.235.32 (Orop.).
2. blabbing, betrayal of secrets, λόγων ἀπορρήτων ἐ. D.L.1.98.
II. (from Pass.) of horses, running away, ἡ πρὸς οἶκον ἐ. X.Eq.3.5.
2. passing out, ἡ τοῦ πνεύματος ἐ. D.S.2.12.
III. projection in a building, Vitr.3.5.1, 6.2.2 (pl.).
IV. utterance, pronunciation, Phld.Po.994.24, Str.16.4.18, D.H.Comp.14.
V. expression, enunciation of ideas, Stoic.2.58, al., D.H.Comp.8, Plu.2.1112e, Alex.Aphr.in Metaph.371.7; esp. mode of expression, grammatical construction, “ἐ. προστακτική” A.D. Synt.69.20; ἐνεργητική ib.150.19; ἐ. ἑνικαί, πληθυντικαί, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.6.
VI. digression, εἰς ἐ. ἐκπίπτειν wander from the point, Gal.8.629.
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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    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 430
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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 1029
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 1008
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    • Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 8
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.4.18
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.34
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 3.5
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.12
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 14
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