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ἐκτήκω , fut.
A.“-ξω” E.Or.134:—melt out, “Κύκλωπος ὄμματ᾽ ἐ. πυρί” Id.Cyc.459; τὰ γράμματ᾽ ἐ. melt out the letters written on wax, Ar. Nu.772.
2. metaph., let melt, pine or waste away, “ὄμμα δακρύοις” E.Or.134, cf. 529; “δάκρυσι χρόα” Id.Hel.1419; “τὸν θυμόν” Pl.R.411b; “λῆστις δ᾽ ἐ. μνημοσύνην πραπίδων” Critias 6.12 D.; “τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν ἐ. κρᾶσιν” Plu.Lyc.5; “ἐ. τινὰ εἰς δάκρυα” Id.Brut.23; “λύπῃ καὶ λιμῷ ἑαυτόν” Ael.NA10.41.
II. Pass., with pf. ἐκτέτηκα: aor. ἐξετάκην [α^]:—melt and ooze out, Hp.Coac.629; τὸ ἐκτετηκός flabby condition, Id.Aph.2.35.
2. metaph., pine, waste away, “ἐκτέτηκα καρδίαν” E. Hec.433; “ἐξετηκόμην γόοις” Id.Or.860, etc.; “τὰς ὁράσεις ὲκτετηκυῖα ὑπὸ τῶν δακρύων” D.H.8.45, cf. Luc.Gall.29,31; μάλα μοι τόδ᾽ ἐμμένοι καὶ μήποτ᾽ ἐκτακείη may it never melt from my remembrance, A.Pr. 535 (lyr.), cf. Critias 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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