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ἐκλύω [υ_,
A.v. λύω], set free, πόνων from labours, A.Pr.328; release, “ὕδατα” PTeb.49.6 (ii B. C.):—Pass., to be set free, “ἐκλέλυμαι πόθου” Thgn. 1339; “ἐκ δεσμῶν” Pl.Phd.67d:—Med., get one set free, release, “ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δή σε κακῶν ἐκλύσομαι” Od.10.286; “τοῦ φόβου σ᾽ ἐξελυσάμην” S.OT 1003; “θανάτου νιν ἐκλύσασθε” E.Andr.818; “ἐξελυσάμην βροτοὺς τὸ μὴ μολεῖν” A.Pr.237: c. acc. pers. only, “ἐξελύσαντο τοὺς Ἀργείους” X.HG 7.1.25: abs., ἐξελυσάμην I delivered him from danger, S.Aj.531.
II. unloose, ἐ. τόξα unstring a bow, Hdt.2.173; “ἐ. ἁρμούς” E.Hipp.825; σκαιὸν ἐκλύσων στόμα likely to let loose a foolish tongue, S.Aj.1225.
2. make an end of, ἐξέλυσας..σκληρᾶς ἀοιδοῦ δασμόν paid it off, Id.OT 35; “ἐπίπονον ἁμέραν” Id.Tr.654; “μόχθον” E.Ph.695; “ἔριν καὶ φιλονικίαν” D.9.14; ἐξελύσατε (v.l. -λύσασθε) “τὰς παρασκευάς” Id.18.26.
3. relax, Arist.HA610a27; “τῆς φροντίδος τὸ ἀκριβές” Luc.Dom. 17:— Pass., to be faint, fail, Hp.Aph.2.41, Isoc.15.59, D.19.224, Phld.Ir. p.69 W., etc.; “πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον” Isoc.4.150; ἐκλυθῆναι τοῖς σώμασι, τῇ ψυχῇ, Arist.Fr.144, Plb.29.17.4 (so intr. in Act., J.BJ1.33.5), etc.; of things, to be unserviceable, “τὰ τῶν πλοίων ἐκλελυμένα” Arist.Pol. 1320b37; ἐκλύεται ὁ ῥοῦς, τὰ ῥεύματα, cease, Plb.4.43.9, 4.41.5.
4. Medic., ἐ. κοιλίαν relax the bowels, Dsc.4.169.
5. pay in full, “δάνειον” Plu.Caes.12 (Pass.).
b. purchase, Herod.6.91.
6. resolve a doubt, in Pass., A.D.Synt.176.24; also τὰ ὑπ᾽ ἀμφιβολίαν πίπτοντα ἐκλύεται τοῦ ἀμφιβόλου ib.311.11.
7. dissolve, “τι ὄξει” Gal.11.106.
III. intr., to break up, depart, LXX 2 Ma.13.16.
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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