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ἐκοχ-ή , ἡ, Arc. ἐσδοκά IG 5(2).6.40 :—
A.receiving fromor at the hands of another, succession, “πομποῦ πυρός” A.Ag.299 ; “ἐκδοχαῖς ἐπιφέρει θεὸς κακόν” E.Hipp. 866 ; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι πολέμου to continue the war, Aeschin.2.30.
2. receiving, containing, “ὄμβρων” J.BJ5.4.3, cf. Paul. Aeg.6.106.
II. taking or understanding in a certain sense, interpretation, “ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι” Plb.3.29.4, cf. UPZ110.86 (ii B.C.) ; “ἐξ ὧν ἦν λαμβάνειν ἐκδοχὴν ὅτι..” Plb.22.7.6, cf.SIG557.18 (Magn.Mae., iii B.C.), Sch.Pi.O.13.100.
III. = προσδοκία, κρίσεως Ep.Hebr.10.27.
IV. = ἀποδοχή, recognition for services rendered, IG12(5).722.8 (Andros).
V. giving of security, “προειδὼς ἀσφαλῆ τὴν ἐ. οὖσαν” PSI 4.349 (iii B.C.).
VI. contract, IG5(2).l.c.
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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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 30
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 299
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 866
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 6.106
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 5.4.3
    • New Testament, Hebrews, 10.27
    • Polybius, Histories, 22.7.6
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