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ἔκβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκβολος ἔκβολον

Structure: ἐκβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)kba/llw

Sense

  1. cast out of, an outcast, rags cast out from

Examples

  • καὶ πλοῖα σμικρὰ ὁρμίζοιτο ἂν πρὸσ τῇ πέτρᾳ τῇ ἀνεχούσῃ οὐ πόρρω ἀπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ τῶν ἐκβολῶν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 12 6:2)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἴριοσ τῶν ἐκβολῶν ἐσ Ἡράκλειον ἑξήκοντα καὶ τριακόσιοι· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 15 4:3)
  • κἀκεῖθεν ἄρασ καὶ διεκβαλὼν τὸν Γαδειραῖον πορθμόν ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῖσ ἐκτὸσ ἐπιβάλλει τῆσ Ἰβηρίασ, μικρὸν ὑπὲρ τῶν τοῦ Βαίτιοσ ἐκβολῶν, ὃσ εἰσ τὴν Ἀτλαντικὴν ἐκφερόμενοσ θάλατταν ὄνομα τῇ περὶ αὐτὸν Ἰβηρίᾳ, παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 8 1:2)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον Τρῶεσ οἱ σὺν Αἰνείᾳ διαφυγόντεσ ἐξ Ἰλίου τῆσ πόλεωσ ἁλούσησ κατέσχον εἰσ Λωρεντόν, αἰγιαλὸν Ἀβοριγίνων ἐπὶ τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει κείμενον, οὐ πρόσω τῶν ἐκβολῶν τοῦ Τεβέριοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 45 1:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ νύκτασ πρὸσ τῇ Μυκάλῃ οὐκ ἐν καλῷ ὡρμίζοντο, ὅτι ὑδρεύεσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ Μαιάνδρου ποταμοῦ τῶν ἐκβολῶν διὰ μακροῦ ἠναγκάζοντο. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 19 7:2)

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

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