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ἐπέξ-ειμι , (εἶμι
A.ibo) serving as Att. fut. to ἐπεξέρχομαι, to which it also supplies the impf. -ῄειν, Ion. 3pl. “-ήϊσαν” Hdt.7.223:—go out against an enemy, l. c., Th.2.21, etc.; “τισί” Id.6.97; “πρὸς πολεμίους” X.Eq.Mag.7.3; “ἐ. τινὶ ἐς μάχην” Th.2.23, etc.
2. get out, escape, Arist.Pr.937a28.
II. proceed against, take vengeance on, Hdt.8.143; esp. in legal sense, prosecute, “τινί” D.21.216, Men.Epit.140; ἐ. τινὶ φόνου for murder, Pl. Lg.866b, Euthphr.4e; ἐ. τινὶ ὑπὲρ φόνου ib.b, cf. e: c. acc. pers., ἐπεξῇμεν τοῦ φόνου τὸν Ἀρίσταρχον Test. ap. D.21.107, cf. Antipho 1.11, etc.: c. dat. rei, visit, avenge, “τῷ παθήματι” Pl.Lg.866b (and c. acc., “τὸν τῶν πατέρων θάνατον” D.S.4.66); also ἐ. δίκῃ, γραφῇ, prosecute at law, Pl.Lg.754e, Euthphr.4c, Aeschin.2.93; attack, “τῷ λόγῳ μεγαλοπρεπέστερον” Pl.Ly.215e.
III. c. acc., go over, traverse, “δρυμούς” Clearch.37.
2. in writing, traverse, go through in detail, “σμικρὰ καὶ μεγάλα ἄστεα” Hdt.1.5; “πάντα” Ar.Ra.1118; “πάσας τὰς ἀμφισβητήσεις” Pl.R.437a.
3. go through with, execute, “παρασκευὰς λόγῳ καλῶς μεμφόμενοι ἀνομοίως ἔργῳ ἐπεξιέναι” Th.1.84; “ἐ. τὰς τιμωρίας ἔτι μείζους” Id.3.82.
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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