Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐκτόπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκτόπιος ἐκτόπιᾱ ἐκτόπιον

Structure: ἐκτοπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = e)/ktopos, Soph.

Sense

  1. put away

Examples

  • δοῦλοι δ’ ὀψοποιοὶ παρῆλθον ὑπὸ πρώτων Μακεδόνων τοῦτ’ ἐπιτηδευσάντων ἢ δι’ ὕβριν ἢ δι’ ἀτυχίαν τῶν αἰχμαλωτισθεισῶν πόλεων, ἐκάλουν δ’ οἱ παλαιοὶ τὸν μὲν πολιτικὸν μάγειρον μαίσωνα, τὸν δ’ ἐκτόπιον τέττιγα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 77 1:4)
  • ἀπάγετ’ ἐκτόπιον ὅ τι τάχιστά με, ἀπάγετ’, ὦ φίλοι, τὸν μέγ’ ὀλέθριον τὸν καταρατότατον, ἔτι δὲ καὶ θεοῖσ ἐχθρότατον βροτῶν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 26)
  • ποῦ κυρεῖ ἐκτόπιοσ συθεὶσ ὁ πάντων ὁ πάντων ἀκορέστατοσ; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 14)

Synonyms

  1. put away

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

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