Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ἐκπονέω

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1.to work out, finish off, Lat. elaborare, Ar.; κἠμὲ μαλθακὸν ἐξεπόνασε σιδαρέω wrought me soft-hearted from iron-hearted, Theocr.; ἐκπ. τινά to deck him out, Eur.:—Pass. to be brought to perfection, Thuc.; ἐκπεπονημένος σῖτος corn fully prepared for use, Xen.; ἐκπεπονῆσθαι τὰ σώματα to be in good training or practice, id=Xen.

2.to execute, Eur.; so in Mid., id=Eur.

3.to provide by labour, earn, id=Eur.:—c. acc. et inf. τοὺς θεοὺς ἐκπ. φράζειν to prevail on the gods to tell, id=Eur.

4.absol. to work hard, id=Eur., Xen.

5.to work out by searching, to search out, Eur.

6.of food, to digest it by labour, Xen.

7.to work at, work well, Theocr.

8.in Pass. to be worn out, Lat. confici, Plut.

1 fut. ήσω

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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