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ἐκλογ-ή , ἡ,
A.choice, selection, “τῶν ἀρχόντων” Pl.R.414a, 536c; “ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι” Id.Lg.802b; ἐ. [τῶν ἀρίστων νόμων] Arist.EN1181a18; “τῶν ἐναντίων” Id.Metaph.1004a2; “ὀνομάτων” Phld.Rh.1.162 S., D.H. Comp.1, etc.; “ὀνόματος” A.D.Synt.71.10; “κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν ἀριστίνδην κεκριμένοι” Plb.6.10.9; “ἐπὶ ἐγλογῇ γεωργεῖν” PTeb.5.166 (ii B.C.).
2. levying of troops, Plb.5.63.11.
3. collection of tribute, etc., κριθῶν Lex Attica ap.Ath.6.235c; “χρημάτων” D.C.42.6; σίτου Cratesap.Ath. 6.235b.
4. Theol., election,Ep.Rom.9.11, etc.; “σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς” Act.Ap.9.15.
5. balancing of accounts, PRyl.157.6 (ii A.D.).
II. extract, quotation from a book, Apollon. Cit.3, Ath.14.663c, Antig. Mir.15.
2. choice collection of passages, such as the Eclogae or 'Elegant Extracts' of Stobaeus: ἐκλογαὶ Ἀρχιγένους select prescriptions of A., Gal.14.343.
3. διὰ τὴν ἐ. τῶν ἀνθρώπων because they were picked men, Plb.1.47.9,cf.Ph.2.362.
4. ἐκλογήν: κάλαθον (Lacon.), Hsch.
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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