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ἐκφαίνω , fut. -φα^νῶ, Ion. -φανέω in Luc.Syr.D.32: aor. ἐξέφηνα, Dor.
A.“-έφα_να” Pi.N.4.68:—Pass., Ep.aor. 1 “-εφαάνθην” Il.13.278.
I. of persons, bring to light, reveal, “σήμερον ἄνδρα φόωσδε . . Εἰλείθυια ἐκφανεῖ” 19.104; ἐ. τινά produce him, Hdt.3.36; “εἰ μὴ τὸν αὐτόχειρα . . ἐκφανεῖτ᾽ ἐς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐμούς” S.Ant.307, cf. OT329: c. part., “ἐ. σεωυτὸν ἐόντα τοῦ πατρὸς οὐδὲν ἥσσω” Hdt.3.71; “κακοὺς θνητῶν ἐξέφηνε . . χρόνος” E.Hipp.428:—Pass., οὕνεκ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἐξεφάνη showed himself, came forth to view, Il.19.46, cf. Od.10.260, al.; Χαρύβδιος ἐξεφαάνθη he came up from out Charybdis, 12.441; ὅ τε δειλὸς ἀνὴρ ὅς τ᾽ ἄλκιμος ἐξεφαάνθη is revealed, Il.13.278; “δίκαιοι δ᾽ αὖθις [ὄντες] ἐκφανούμεθα” S.Ph.82; “σὺ μὲν . . ἐκφανεῖ κακή” Id.OT1063; “ἕκτον ἦμαρ ἐκπεφασμένος” Id.Ichn.273.
2. inform against, “τινά” Cod.Just.1.5.16.5.
II. of things, bring to light, “δῶρα καὶ κράτος ἐγγενές” Pi.N.4.68; disclose, reveal, “τινὶ ἄρρητα ἱρά” Hdt.6.135,al. (so abs., “ὡς τὸ μαντεῖον ἐξέφηνεν . . ἐμοί” S.OT243); “ἐ. ἑωυτοῦ γνώμην” Hdt.5.36; “τὴν αἰτίην” Id.6.3; “τὴν ἀληθείην” Id.1.117; “λόγον” E.Hipp.881; ἐ. ἐς φάος κακά ib.368; “δειλίαν” Pl.Mx.246e:—Pass., with fut. Med., shine out, “οἱ ὄσσε δεινὸν ὑπὸ βλεφάρων, ὡς εἰ σέλας, ἐξεφάανθεν” Il.19.17; appear plainly, “πλευρὰ παρ᾽ ἀσπίδος ἐξεφαάνθη” 4.468, cf. Diog.Apoll.6; “ἀστέρων ἐκφανέντων” Th.2.28, cf. Phld.Sign.10: metaph., ταὶ Διωνύσου πόθεν ἐξέφα^νεν (for -ησαν） χάριτες; Pi.O.13.18; ἐκφανήσεται it shall be disclosed, E.Hipp. 42, cf. Pl.Hp.Ma.295a; “ἕως ἂν ἡμῖν ἐκφανῆτον ἐφ᾽ ᾧ αὐτὼ σπουδάζετον” Id.Euthd.288c.
2. exhibit, “κακότητα ἔς τινα” Hdt.5.92.ή.
3. ἐ. πόλεμον πρός τινα to declare . ., X.An.3.1.16.
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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