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ἔξορμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔξορμος ἔξορμον

Structure: ἐξορμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sailing from a harbour

Examples

  • φερέτω κάλαθον ταχύ τισ πτερύγων, σὺ δ’ αὖθισ ἐξόρμα ‐ τύπτων γε τοῦτον ὡδί. (Aristophanes, Birds, Choral, antistrophe 11)
  • καὶ ὁ Κῦροσ ὡσ εἶδεν ὁρμωμένουσ, ἐξορμᾷ, καὶ αὐτὸσ πρῶτοσ ἡγεῖτο ταχέωσ, καὶ ὁ Κυαξάρησ μέντοι ἐφείπετο, καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι δὲ οὐκ ἀπελείποντο. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 28:5)

Synonyms

  1. sailing from a harbour

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

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