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ἐκνεύω , aor. ἐξένευσα,
A.turn the head out of its natural position, of a horse, ἐ. ἄνω to toss the head, X.Eq.5.4; τῇ κεφαλῇ ἐκνεύσας by a side-movement with the head, of the wild boar, Id.Cyn.10.12, cf. LXX 4 Ki.23.16.
2. c. acc., shun, avoid, Phld.Sign.27, Ph.1.146, Orph.A.458; “ξίφος” Hegesias ap.D.H.Comp.18; “πληγήν” D.S.17.100.
II. fall headlong, “εἰς θάνατον” E.Ph.1268; “ἐ. πρός τι” to turn aside, Ph.1.297 : c. gen., “τῶν παρόντων” Plot.6.7.34.
III. motion away, “ἐξένευσ᾽ ἀποστῆναι πρόσω” E.IT1330.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.100
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1330
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1268
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 23.16
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 5.4
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 10.12
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 18
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