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ἐξυβρίζω ,
A.break out into insolence, wax wanton, Pherecyd.Syr.5, Hdt.4.146,7.5; “εὐπραγίαις” Th.1.84; “ὑπὸ πλούτου” X.Cyr.8.6.1; ἐ. ἐς τόδε come to this pitch of insolence, Th.3.39: with neut. Adj. or Pron., παντοῖα ἐ. commit all kinds of violence or extravagance, Hdt.3.126; “τάδ᾽ ἐ.” S.El.293; “ἐ. πλείω περὶ τοὺς θεούς” Lys.2.9; “τι εἴς τινα” Luc. Fug.18; “εἴς τινα” Plu.Phoc.2, Eus.Mynd.54, Ant.Lib.21.3.
2. c. acc. pers., treat with insolence or violence, Id.12.2; also “ἐ. τοὺς ἔρωτας” Conon 24.2:—Pass., “ἡ πόλις ὑφ᾽ ὑμῶν -ίζετο” Hyp.Phil.9; τὰ -ισμένα despised things, Longin.43.5.
II. of the body, break out from high feeding, Pl.Lg.691c; of plants, to be over-luxuriant, Arist. GA725b35, Thphr.CP2.16.8; “ὥσπερ ἐξυβρίσαντα τὸν δῆμον ἀναφῦσαι πλῆθος συκοφαντῶν” Plu.Arist.26.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.126
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.146
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.5
    • Hyperides, In Defence of Euxenippus, 9
    • Lysias, Funeral Oration, 9
    • Plato, Laws, 691c
    • Sophocles, Electra, 293
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.84
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    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 8.6.1
    • Plutarch, Aristeides, 26
    • Plutarch, Phocion, 2
    • Lucian, Fugitivi, 18
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