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ἐκτρέχω , fut.
A.“-δρα^μοῦμαι” Diph.19.3: pf. “ἐκδεδράμηκα” Arist.Aud. 802a21:—run out or forth, “ἐκ δὲ θύραζε ἔδραμον ἀμφ᾽ Ἀχιλῆα” Il.18.30; “τῆς συγκλήτου εἰς τὸν δῆμον” Hdn.7.11.5; make a sally, e)k po/lews Th. 4.25, etc.; ἐπὶ [σῦν] Arist.Fr.571, cf. PGurob 8.11 (iii B.C.).
2. run off or away, Ar.Av.991.
3. of horns, spring up, grow, “ταχέως” Arist.Aud.l.c.; of plants, run or shoot up, Thphr.CP2.15.5: c. gen., “ἐ. τῶν ἄλλων” Id.HP6.8.1.
4. c. acc., exceed, τὸν καιρόν Lycon ap. D.L.5.65: abs., of anger, exceed bounds, S.OC438.
5. digress, wander from the point, Corp.Herm.1.16.
6. c. gen., escape from the clutches of, “δανειστοῦ” App.Fr.22.
b. to be born of, “τῆς μητρός” Lib. Ep.1036.9.
7. of Time, expire, come to an end, PSI4.444 (iii B.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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 991
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.30
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 438
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.25
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