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ἐπί-λυ^σις , εως, ἡ,
A.release from, “ἐ. φόβων δίδου” A.Th.134 (lyr.): abs., exemption from banishment, SIG306.51 (Arc., iv B.C.).
2.. solution, “σοφισμάτων” S.E.P.2.246; explanation, 2 Ep.Pet.1.20, Vett. Val.172.3 (pl.), Hld.1.18, 4.9, Iamb.Protr.21 (pl.).
3.. discharge, of a debt, δοῦναί τισιν ἐ. PEleph.27.23 (iii B.C.), cf. PGrenf.2.26.27 (ii B.C.).
4.. spell, PMag.Leid.W.25.11, al.
5.. Medic., change of dressing, Sor.1.28(pl.), Gal.18(2).838(pl.), Paul.Aeg.4.48.
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, 134
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