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ἐκτίθημι (inf.
A.“-τιθεῖν” IG7.235.41), fut. -θήσω: pf. “-τέθεικα” UPZ 62.4 (ii B.C.):—set out, place outside, “πυκινὸν λέχος” Od.23.179; expose on a desert island, S.Ph.5; expose a new-born child, Hdt.1.112, Ar.Nu.531, etc.; “τὸν παῖδ᾽ . . ἐξέθηκε δωμάτων” E.Ion 344:—so in Pass., τέθνηκε . . θηρσὶν ἐκτεθείς ib.951; expose, “ἑαυτὸν βέλεσι” Polem.Cyn.7:—Med., ἐκτίθεσθαι λείαν εἰς Βιθυνούς export it thither, Plu.Alc.29.
II. set up, offer for a prize, “λέβητας ἐκτιθεὶς φέρειν” S.Fr.378; “ἆθλα” Plb.15.9.4.
b. fix or grant allowances, rates of pay, etc., PSI5.498 (iii B.C.), PEdgar2.4 (Pass.), etc.
2. exhibit publicly, post up, νόμους πρὸς τοὺς ἐπωνύμους Decr. ap. And.1.83, cf. Lex ap.D.24.23; “ἔκθεμα” PPetr.2p.44 (iii B.C.); “ὀνόματα εἰς στοάν” SIG577.28 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.):—Pass., ὅπως ἐκτεθῶσι [οἱ νόμοι] IG22.487.6, etc.
3. expose for sale, D.C.46.14 (Pass.).
III. set forth, expound, “τὴν πρόθεσιν” Arist.Rh.Al.1437b35; “κατὰ γένος” Thphr.Char.Praef.3:—also Med., “λόγους καθόλου” Arist.Po.1455b1; “τὴν ἑαυτῆς ἐρημίαν” D.S.12.18, etc.
2. Philos., predicate separate existence of a thing, explain by means of abstraction, Arist.Metaph. 1086b10.
IV. Med., set forth, select particular instances of a rule, [“ποιεῖν τὴν ἀπόδειξιν] τῶ ἐκθέσθαι” Id.APr.28a23:—Pass., τὸ ἐκτεθέν ib.30a11.
2. set out terms in syllogistic form, ib.48a1, al.
3. isolate in thought, Id.SE179a3.
4. pick out for separate treatment, Id.Ph.235a28.
5. ἐ. καθόλου set out in general form, Id.Po.1455b1.
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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    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 83
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1455b.1
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 23
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.18
    • Euripides, Ion, 344
    • Euripides, Ion, 951
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.112
    • Homer, Odyssey, 23.179
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 5
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 378
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.9.4
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 531
    • Plutarch, Alcibiades, 29
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 46.14
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