Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔξορμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔξορμος ἔξορμον

Structure: ἐξορμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sailing from a harbour

Examples

  • παῦσαι διώκων ῥεῦμά τ’ ἐξορμῶν στρατοῦ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 9:3)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ Σμινδυρίδησ ὁ Συβαρίτησ τοιοῦτοσ, ὦ Ἕλληνεσ, ὃσ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀγαρίστησ τῆσ Κλεισθένουσ θυγατρὸσ ἐξορμῶν γάμον ὑπὸ χλιδῆσ καὶ τρυφῆσ χιλίουσ συνεπήγετο οἰκέτασ, ἁλιεῖσ καὶ ὀρνιθευτὰσ καὶ μαγείρουσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 10412)

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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