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ἐκ-θύω [υ_],
A.sacrifice,S.El.572,E.Cyc.371(lyr.); destroy utterly, Id.Or.191 (lyr.):—Med., ἐχθυσεῦνται (Dor.fut.) “τὰ ἱερά” SIG 1106.65 (Cos).
2. Med., atone for, expiate by offerings, c.acc. rei, “ἄγος” Hdt.6.91; “τὰ ἀναγκαῖα” Iamb.Myst.9.3 (leg.ἐκλ-) : c. acc. pers., propitiate, appease, “τινὰ μακάρων” E.Fr.912.12 (anap.) : abs., make atonement, ὑπέρ τινος (thing or person) Thphr.HP5.9.8, Plu.Alex.50, D.C.41.14; “τοῖς θεοῖς” Str.6.2.11.
3. Med., avert by sacrifices, “τὰ εἱμαρμένα” Iamb.Myst.9.3.
II. break out as heat or humours, Hp. Liqu.6.
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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