A.fall out of, “δίφρου” Il.5.585 ; “ἵππων” 11.179 ; “ἀντύγων ἄπο” E.Ph.1193, etc. : c. dat. pers., “τόξον δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρός” Il.15.465 ; θαλερὸν δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε δάκρυ fell from his eyes, 2.266 : abs., fall out, 23.467 ; fall down, of trees, Thphr.HP9.2.7 ; “οἱ λεγόμενοι ἀστέρες ἐκπίπτειν” meteors, Epicur. Ep.2p.54U.—After Hom., in various relations, freq. as Pass. of ἐκβάλλω :
1. of seafaring men, to be cast ashore, “ἐκ δ᾽ ἔπεσον θυμηγερέων” Od.7.283 ; “ἐ. τῇσι νηυσὶ ἐς Ἰηπυγίην” Hdt.3.138 ; “πρὸς τὰς πέτρας” Id.8.13 ; “πρὸς πέτραις” E.Hel.1211 ; ναυαγὸν ἐ. ib.539 ; “ἐ. πρὸς τὴν χώραν” Pl.Lg.866d ; of things, suffer shipwreck, X.An.7.5.13 ; of fish, to be cast up, Arist.HA601b32.
2. fall from a thing, i.e. be deprived of it, “ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ εὐδαιμόνων ἐς πτωχηΐην” Hdt.3.14, cf.Lys.Fr.1.1 ; τυραννίδος, ἀρχῆς, A.Pr.756,757 ; “[ἀπὸ] τῶν ἐλπίδων” Th.8.81 ; “ἐκ τῆς δόξης” Isoc.5.64 ; “τῶν ὑπαρχόντων” Phld.Ir.p.51 W.
3. to be driven out, “[ἐκ τῆς ἀκροπόλιος]” Hdt.5.72 ; to be banished, “ἐ. ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος” Id.1.150, cf. 6.121 ; “ἐ. χθονός” S.OC766, cf. Aj.1177 ; “ἐ. πολέμῳ ἢ στάσει” Th.1.2 ; “γυμνὸς θύραζ ἐξέπεσον” Ar.Pl.244 ; ὑπό τινος by a person, “ἐκ Πελοποννήσου ὑπὸ Μήδων” Hdt.8.141 ; “ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους” Th.4.66, cf. Inscr.Prien.37.71 ; “πρός τινος” A.Pr.948, S.Ant.679 :—in Th.7.50 the prep. ἐς is corrupt.
4. of limbs, to be dislocated, Hp.Art.8, etc. ; of flesh, mortify and separate itself, Id.Fract. 27 ; so ἐ. ὀδόντες, πτερά, Arist.GA745b6, HA519a26, etc. ; of atoms, “ἐκπεσοῦσαι κατέψυξαν” Epicur.Fr.60.
5. go forth, sally out, Hdt.9.74 ; “ἐκ τοῦ σταυρώματος” X.HG4.4.11 : abs., Id.An.5.2.17 ; of rays, issue forth, Alex. Aphr. de An.127.31.
6. come out, of votes, X.Smp.5.10 ; turn out, happen, Vett.Val.70.27, al.
7. escape, Th.6.95.
8. of oracles, issue, “χρησμὸς ἐκπίπτει” Luc.Alex.43, etc. ; “ἐκπεσεῖν φωνὴν ἐξ ἄλσους” Plu.Publ.9 ; to be published, become known, “εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἀπαιδεύτους” Pl.Ep.314a ; “φήμη ἐ. ἐς τοὺς Ἕλληνας” Plu.Cleom.5 : abs., “ἀπόκρισις ἐ.” Plb.30.32.10.
b. digress, Isoc.12.88 ; “ἐ. ἐκ τοῦ λόγου” Aeschin. 2.34 ; but ἐ. τῆς διανοίας miss the sense, Olymp.in Mete.7.26 ; fall outside of a class, Alex.Aphr. de An.169.17.
10. of things, escape one unawares, “φασὶν ἐκπεσεῖν αὐτούς” Arist.EN1111a9, cf. Plu.Per.8 ; “ἐ. τὴν αἴσθησιν” Alex.Aphr. in Sens. 147.18 ; of reason, fail, be lacking, Arist.MM1202a3.
11. degenerate, “εἰς ἀλλότριον ἦθος” Pl.R.497b ; εἰς τὴν Φρυγιστὶ ἁρμονίαν slip into.., Arist.Pol.1342b11 : abs., come to naught, Ep.Rom.9.6 ; to be dilapidated, IG22.204.74.
12. of actors or dramatic pieces, to be hissed off the stage, D.18.265, Arist.Po.1456a18, 1459b31 : so of orators, Pl.Grg.517a, cf.Phlb.13d.
15. of money, cease to be current, IG7.303.14 (Oropus, iii B.C.).
16. run to excess, “δι᾽ ἀοριστίαν” Epicur.Sent.Vat.63 ; “[ὁ πλοῦτος] εἰς ἄπειρον ἐ.” Id.Sent.15, cf.Luc.JConf.7.
b. Geom., as Pass. of ἐκβάλλω, to be produced, Archim.Spir.14.
17. die, “χθὼν ἐκπιπτόντων” Not.Scav.1923.35 (unless, = rubbish heap).