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ἔξεδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔξεδρος ἔξεδρον

Structure: ἐξεδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e(/dra

Sense

  1. away from home
  2. out of, away from
  3. in an unlucky quarter

Examples

  • νὴ Δί’ ἕτεροσ δῆτα χοὖτοσ ἔξεδρον χρόαν ἔχων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric15)
  • ποτὲ μὲν σκοτοδινιῶντα καὶ μεθυσκόμενον τῷ τοῦ παιδὸσ ἔρωτι καὶ γινόμενον ἔξεδρον καὶ καθάπερ νεβρὸν ὑποπεπτωκότα λέοντοσ ἀλκῇ, ἅμα δὲ καταφρονεῖν φησι τῆσ ὡρ́ασ αὐτοῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 12 5:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὡσ ἡδύσματι χρῆται ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἐδέσματι τοῖσ ἐπιθέτοισ <τοῖσ> οὕτω πυκνοῖσ καὶ μείζοσι καὶ ἐπιδήλοισ, οἱο͂ν οὐχ ἱδρῶτα ἀλλὰ τὸν ὑγρὸν ἱδρῶτα, καὶ οὐκ εἰσ Ἴσθμια ἀλλ’ εἰσ τὴν τῶν Ἰσθμίων πανήγυριν, καὶ οὐχὶ νόμουσ ἀλλὰ τοὺσ τῶν πόλεων βασιλεῖσ νόμουσ, καὶ οὐ δρόμῳ ἀλλὰ δρομαίᾳ τῇ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ὁρμῇ, καὶ οὐχὶ μουσεῖον ἀλλὰ τὸ τῆσ φύσεωσ παραλαβὼν μουσεῖον, καὶ σκυθρωπὸν τὴν φροντίδα τῆσ ψυχῆσ, καὶ οὐ χάριτοσ ἀλλὰ πανδήμου χάριτοσ δημιουργόσ, καὶ οἰκονόμοσ τῆσ τῶν ἀκουόντων ἡδονῆσ, καὶ οὐ κλάδοισ ἀλλὰ τοῖσ τῆσ ὕλησ κλάδοισ ἀπέκρυψεν, καὶ οὐ τὸ σῶμα παρήμπισχεν ἀλλὰ τὴν τοῦ σώματοσ αἰσχύνην, καὶ ἀντίμιμον τὴν τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἐπιθυμίαν τοῦτο δ’ ἅμα καὶ διπλοῦν καὶ ἐπίθετον, ὥστε ποίημα γίνεται, καὶ οὕτωσ ἔξεδρον τὴν τῆσ μοχθηρίασ ὑπερβολήν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 3 3:6)

Synonyms

  1. away from home

  2. out of

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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