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ἔκπλυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκπλυτος ἔκπλυτον

Structure: ἐκπλυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kplu/_nw

Sense

  1. to be washed out, washed out

Examples

  • βρίζει γὰρ αἷμα καὶ μαραίνεται χερόσ, μητροκτόνον μίασμα δ’ ἔκπλυτον πέλει· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode, lyric 1:3)
  • τοῦ γὰρ κοινοῦ μιανθέντοσ αἵματοσ οὐκ εἶναι κάθαρσιν ἄλλην, οὐδὲ ἔκπλυτον ἐθέλειν γίγνεσθαι τὸ μιανθὲν πρὶν φόνον φόνῳ ὁμοίῳ ὅμοιον ἡ δράσασα ψυχὴ τείσῃ καὶ πάσησ τῆσ συγγενείασ τὸν θυμὸν ἀφιλασαμένη κοιμίσῃ. (Plato, Laws, book 9 123:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be washed out

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

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