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ἐπιλείπω ,
A.leave behind, “ἐπὶ δὲ πλεῖον ἐλέλειπτο” Od.8.475, cf. X.An. 1.8.18 codd.:—Med., leave behind, of gleanings, v.l. in LXX Ob.1.5:— Pass., c.gen., fall short of, “παντὸς ἀριθμοῦ” Pl.Epin.978b: c. dat., τῇ δυνάμει, τῇ οὐσίᾳ, Arist.Ath.20.2, 27.4.
2.. leave untouched, ὡς οὔτ᾽ “ἂν τῶν ἐμῶν ἐπιλίποιμι οὐδὲν οὔτε τῶν φίλων” Pl.Prt.310e: c.part., μυρία “ἐ. λέγων” Id.Phlb.26b, cf. 52d.
II.. of things, fail one, c.acc. pers., “ἥβην . ., ἥ μ᾽ ἐπιλείπει” Thgn.1131; “ὕδωρ [μιν] ἐπέλιπε” Hdt.7.21, cf. 2.174; so τῶν ὄμβρων ἐπιλιπόντων αὐτούς (sc. τοὺς ποταμούς) Id.2.25; “γλαῦκες ὑμᾶς οὔποτ᾽ ἐπιλείψουσι” Ar.Av.1106; ἐπειδὰν αὐτοὺς ἐπιλίπωσιν “ἐλπίδες” Th.5.103: c.inf., “[ὁ νόμος] ἐμοὶ μόνῳ ἐπέλιπε μὴ ὠφελῆσαι” Antipho 5.17; ἐπιλίποι ἂν ἡμᾶς ὁ χρόνος time would fail me, Isoc.1.11, cf. Lys.12.1, Ep.Hebr.11.32; τὸ ὕδωρ ἡμᾶς ἐ. Isoc.15.320; ἐπιλείψει “με λέγονθ᾽ ἡ ἡμέρα” D.18.296: later, c.dat., Plu.Cic.42, Ael.NA8.17.
2.. Hdt., freq. of rivers, ἐ. τὸ ῥέεθρον leave their stream unfilled, run dry, Hdt.7.43, 58, al.; without ῥέεθρον, fail, run dry, ib. 127; “τὰς κρήνας καὶ τὰ φρέατ᾽ ἐπιλείπειν πέφυκεν” D.14.30.
3.. generally, fail, be wanting, “ἵνα μὴ ἐπιλίπῃ κατεσθιόμενα” Hdt.3.108; σῖτος ἐπιλιπών a deficiency of it, Th.3.20 codd.; τὰ ἐπιτήδεια ἐ. X.An.4.7.1; ὥστε τὸν λόγον μηδέποτε ἐ. Pl.Prt.334e; opp. περιγίγνεσθαι, Ar.Pl. 554: c.gen., fall short, σπουδῆς οὐθὲν ἐ. Michel 332.9 (Odessus).
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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    • Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, 17
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1106
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 554
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    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 27.4
    • Demosthenes, On the Navy, 30
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 296
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.21
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.43
    • Homer, Odyssey, 8.475
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 320
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 11
    • Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, 1
    • Plato, Philebus, 52d
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    • Plato, Protagoras, 334e
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.20
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    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 1.8.18
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.7.1
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