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ἐκλέγω , fut. Pass.
A.“ἐκλεγήσεσθαι” IG12.76.16 : pf. Pass. “ἐξείλεγμαι” Pl.Alc.1.121e, and in med. sense, D.20.131, but “ἐκλέλεγμαι” Diph. 44, Posidipp.27.9 (prob.):—pick or single out, Th.4.59, etc.; esp. of soldiers, rowers, etc., X.HG1.6.19, Pl.R.535a; “ἐκ πάντων κεφάλαια” Id.Lg.811a:—Pass., Id.Alc.l.c.; “ἐκλελεγμένος” select, recondite, Diog. Oen.23 :—Med., pick out for oneself, choose, Hdt.1.199,3.38, D.l.c.; “τὰ κάλλιστα” Pl.Smp.198d, al.; “ἐξ ἁπάντων” Isoc.9.58.
2. Lit. Crit., select, λ<*>´ξεις καλάς D.H.Comp.3; cf. ἐκλογή.
3. Med., of God, elect, choose, LXX De.4.37, Ep.Eph.1.4, etc.
4. ἐκλέγειν τὰς πολιὰς (sc. τρίχας) pull out one's grey hairs, Ar.Eq.908, Fr.410.
II. levy taxes or tribute, “χρήματα παρά τινος” Th.8.44 ; “τὰς ἐπικαρπίας” And. 1.92, cf. IG12.76.8 (Pass., ib.16) ; “ἔκ τινων” D.49.49 ; take toll of, “χαλκοῦς” Thphr.Char.6.4 : c. acc. pers., “ἐ. τέλη τοὺς καταπλέοντας” Aeschin.3.113 : c.acc. et gen., “τὴν δεκάτην τῶν πλοίων” X.HG1.1.22.
III. declare, Prisc.p.294D., Gloss.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Leptines, 131
    • Demosthenes, Against Timotheus, 49
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.199
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    • Plato, Laws, 811a
    • Plato, Republic, 535a
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