ἐξέρπω?
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration: exerpō
Principal Part:
ἐξέρπω
ἐξείρπυσα
Structure:
ἐξ
(Prefix)
+
ἕρπ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to creep out of
- to creep out or forth
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ἤσθιον δὲ τοὺς παγούρους ἀντὶ ποίας Μηδικῆς, εἴ τις ἐξέρποι θύραζε κἀκ βυθοῦ θηρώμενοι: (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme11)
- "διὸ καὶ χείριστοί εἰσι κατὰ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον, ἀποτίκτει δ ὁ μὲν πουλύπους ἢ εἰς θαλάμας ἢ εἰς κεράμιον ἤ τι ἄλλο τοιοῦτο κοῖλον, καὶ μεθ ἡμέρας πεντήκοντα ἐκ τῶν ᾠῶν πουλυπόδια ἐξέρπει ὥσπερ τὰ φαλάγγια πολλά, ὁ δὲ θῆλυς πουλύπους ὁτὲ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖς ᾠοῖς, ὁτὲ δ ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι προκάθηται τῆς θαλάμης, τὴν πλεκτάνην ἐπέχων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1047)
- κατὰ τὰς σφοδροτέρας ὀρέξεις ἄνω προστρέχει πᾶσι τοῖς ζῳοίς ἡ γαστήρ, ὥστε τινὲς τοῦ πάθους αἴσθησιν ἐναργῆ σχόντες ἐξέρπειν αὑτοῖς φασι τὴν κοιλίαν, ἐνίων δὲ μασωμένων ἔτι καὶ μήπω καλῶς ἐν τῷ στόματι τὰ σιτία κατεργασαμένων ἐξαρπάζει φανερῶς ἀκόντων. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 838)
- εἰ δὲ μή, ἔφη, αἰτίαν ἕξεις, ἐπεὶ καὶ νῦν τινὲς ἤδη σὲ αἰτιῶνται ὅτι οὐ ταχὺ ἐξέρπει τὸ στράτευμα. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 12:4)
- Χίλων Περιάνδρῳ "Ἐπιστέλλεις ἐμὶν ἐκστρατείαν ἐπὶ ἐκδάμως, ὡς αὐτός κα ἐξέρποις: (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. g'. XILWN 6:8)
Synonyms
-
to creep out of
-
to creep out or forth
Derived
- ἀνέρπω (to creep up or upwards)
- ἀφέρπω (to creep off, steal away, retire)
- διέρπω (to creep or pass through)
- εἰσέρπω (to go into)
- ἕρπω (to move slowly, walk; crawl, slink)
- ἐφέρπω (to creep upon, to come on or over, come gradually or stealthily upon)
- καθέρπω (to creep down)
- παρέρπω (to creep secretly up to, to pass by)
- προσανέρπω (to creep up to)
- προσέρπω (to creep to, to creep or steal on, that's coming)
- ὑφέρπω (to creep on secretly, was spreading, to steal upon)
