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ἐκ-ζέω ,
A.boil out or over : break out, in disease, Arist. Pr.861b10 ; ὅταν ἐκζέῃ τὸ αἷμα Ant. Lib. 19.2 : metaph., “ἐξέζεσεν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα” A. Th. 709.
2. c. gen., ζῶσα εὐλέων ἐξέζεσε bred worms, Hdt. 4.205 : c. dat., “ἐκζεῖν φθειρσί” D.L. 4.4 : c. acc., “σκώληκας” LXXEx.16.20 ; of a country, ἐ. μύας ib. 1 Ki.6.1.
3. ferment, Dsc.5.7.
II. Pass., to be boiled to a decoction, Aret. CD2.5.
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 709
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.205
    • Old Testament, 1 Samuel, 6.1
    • Aretaeus, De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo, 2.5
    • Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, 4.4
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 16.20
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