A.“-ξομαι” Ar.V.157, Pl.Smp.189b, and “-ξοῦμαι” Id.R. 432d:—flee out or away, escape: abs., “ἐκφυγέειν μεμαώς” Od.19.231, cf. A.Pers.510, etc.; “φεύγων ἐκφεύγειν” Hdt.5.95.
b. of persons accused, to be acquitted, Ar.V.157.
2. c. gen., escape out of, “ἐξέφυγον πολιῆς ἁλὸς ἤπειρόνδε” Od.23.236; “νούσου” Epigr.Gr.1041.9; of things, “βέλος ἔκφυγε χειρός” Il.5.18: with Prep., “ματρὸς ἐκ κόλπων” APl.4.182 (Leon.).
3. c. acc., escape, “ἐξ αὖ νῦν ἔφυγες θάνατον” Il.11.362; “κῆρας” Od.4.512; “κακότητα” 5.414; “θανάτοιο τέλος” Archil.6; “νοῦσον” Hdt.1.25; “Σκύθας” Id.6.40; “τὴν πεπρωμένην” A.Pr.518; “τὰν θεῶν νέμεσιν” S.Ph.518 (lyr.), etc.
c. of things, “ἐκπεφεύγασιν γάμοι με” E.Hel.1622; “ἐκφύγοι τὰ πράγματ᾽ αὐτόν” D.18.33, cf. 19.123; ἐ. τὰς αἰσθήσεις escape one's sense, Arist.Fr.208; also, escape one's lips, Pl.Ly.213d: abs., “ἐκφεύγει τἀμελούμενον” S.OT111, cf. Arist.Metaph.1090b21.
d. ἐκφεύγοντες τὴν χιόνα τόποι places free from snow, Plb.3.55.7.
e. Astron., of stars, emerge from the Sun's rays, become visible, Autol.1.9, Gem.13.9, etc.
f. pass over, omit, Apollon.Cit.1.
4. c. inf. (with or without Art.), Pl.Sph. 235b; οὐκ ἐκφεύγει μὴ οὐκ εἶναι . . Id.Phdr.277e; “τὸ μὴ ἕτερα εἶναι” Id.Prm.147a; “ἐ. τὸ ἀποθανεῖν” Id.Ap.39a; “μικρὸν ἐξέφυγε μὴ καταπετρωθῆναι” X.An.1.3.2; ἐκφεύξεται τὰ δύο will not admit of duality, Plot.3.8.9.