Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔκτοθεν

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκτοθεν

Etym.: e)kto/s

Sense

  1. from without, outside, outside, apart from, from
  2. outside, from an alien house

Examples

  • λίμνασ τ’ ἔκτοθεν αἳ κατὰ χέρσον ἐληλαμέναι πέρι πύργον τοῦδ’ ἄνακτοσ ἀιόν, Ἕλλασ τ’ ἀμφὶ πόρον πλατὺν εὐχόμεναι, μυχία τε Προποντίσ, καὶ στόμωμα Πόντου· (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • πύργων δ’ ἔκτοθεν βαλὼν Ζεύσ σφε κάνοι κεραυνῷ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 32)
  • τήνδε δ’ ἔκτοθεν βοᾶν ἐά τά θ’ αὑτῆσ καὶ τὰ τῶν φίλων κακά. (Sophocles, episode 9:17)
  • δώμασιν ἔμμοτον τῶνδ’ ἄκοσ, οὐδ’ ἀπ’ ἄλλων ἔκτοθεν, ἀλλ’ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν, δι’ ὠμὰν ἔριν αἱματηράν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 111)
  • ὧσ τὸν ὀιόμενόν που ἀδευκέοσ ἔκτοθεν ἄτησ εἶναι ἀριστήων αὐτῇ ὑπὸ νυκτὶ πέδησεν μαρνάμενον κείνοισι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 18:16)

Synonyms

  1. from without

  2. outside

Related

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

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