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ἔκφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκφορος ἔκφορον

Structure: ἐκφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)kfe/rw

Sense

  1. to be carried out, exportable
  2. to be made known or divulged
  3. prepared to weed out

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἐκφορά. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:3)
  • πέμπτην ἔθυον ἡμέραν οἱ Τήνιοι πολλοὶ παρόντεσ, πλοῦν πολὺν πεπλευκότεσ, λεπτὸν ἔριφον καὶ μικρόν, οὐκ ἦν ἐκφορὰ Λύκῳ κρεῶν τότ’ οὐδὲ τῷ διδασκάλῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 24 3:3)
  • "ἕτερον, εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία νεανίσκου τινὸσ ἦν ἐκφορὰ καὶ προὔπεμπεν ἡ πόλισ. (Plutarch, , chapter 6 1:3)
  • τὸν δεύτερον δὲ τόνδε πενθητήριον οὐ γὰρ παρὼν ᾤμωξα σόν, πάτερ, μόρον οὐδ’ ἐξέτεινα χεῖρ’ ἐπ’ ἐκφορᾷ νεκροῦ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:10)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐνόμιζον ἁγνοὺσ οὐδὲ κατεμείγνυσαν ἑαυτοῖσ οὐδ’ εἰών ἱεροῖσ πλησιάζειν, οἷσ ἐκφορὰ γεγόνει καὶ τάφοσ ὡσ τεθνηκόσι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 5 2:4)

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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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