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ἐκ,
before a vowel ἐξ, also
__A ἐξ τῳ ϝοίκῳ [[ “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.5 H., in _Attic dialect_ Inscrr. before ς ξ ζ ρ] Refs] and less frequently ; ἐγ- in Inscrr. before β γ δ λ μ ; Cretan dialect and Boeotian dialect ἐς [[ “Leg.Gort.” 2.49, 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica “Supp.” 2.67 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐχ frequently in Attic dialect Inscrr. before χ φ θ (and in early Inscrr. before ς, [[ “IG” 12.304.20); also ἐ Ναυπάκτω [prev. work]9(1).334.8 (_Locrian dialect_); (ἐτ is for ἐπὶ in ib 9(2).517.14 (Thess.))] Refs]:—preposition governing GEN. only (except in [[ 5th c.AD: Cypria and 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, with _dative_, “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.5 H. (from Idalium), (in form ἐς) “IG” 5(2).6.49 (Tegea, 4th c.BC))] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—radical sense, from out of, frequently also simply, from.
__A.I OF PLACE, the most frequently usage, variously modified:
__A.I.1 of Motion, out of, forth from, ἐκ Πύλου ἐλθὼν τηλόθεν ἐξ ἀπίης γαίης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.269, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 321c, etc.; μάχης ἔκ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.207; ἂψ ἐκ δυσμενέων ἀνδρῶν 24.288; ἐξ ὀχέων, ἐξ ἕδρης, 3.29, 19.77; φεύγειν ἐκ πολέμοιο 7.119; ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων ἐλθεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.9; ἐκ χειρῶν γέρας εἵλετο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.344, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1287 (but ἐκ χειρὸς βάλλειν or παίειν] Refs 8th c.BC+] to strike with a spear in the hand, opposed to ἀντιτοξεύειν or ἀκοντίζειν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.3.15, “Cyr.” 4.3.16; ἐκ χειρὸς τὴν μάχην ποιεῖσθαι [prev. work] 6.2.16, compare 6.3.24, etc.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ χρυσῶν φιαλῶν πίνειν[[ [prev. work] 5.3.3; ἐξ ἀγορᾶς ὠνεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 190. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __A.I.2 ἐκ θυμοῦ φίλεον I loved her from my heart, with all my heart, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.343; ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀσπάσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 10.4; μέγαν ἐκ θυμοῦ κλάζοντες Ἄρη 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 48 (_anapaest meter_); δακρυχέων ἐκ φρενός [prev. author] “Th.” 919 (_anapaest meter_); οὐδὲν ἐκ σαυτῆς λέγεις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 344 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐξ εὐμενῶν στέρνων δέχεσθαι receive with kindly heart, [[ [prev. author] “OC” 486; ἐξ ὀμμάτων ὀρθῶν δὲ κἀξ ὀρθῆς φρενός [prev. author] “OT” 528 ] Refs]; ὀρθὸς ἐξ ὀρθῶν δίφρων with chariot still upright, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 742; ἐξ ἀκινήτου ποδός [prev. author] “Tr.” 875; ἐξ ἑνὸς ποδός [prev. author] “Ph.” 91. ] Refs]
__A.I.3 to denote change or succession, frequently with an antithetic repetition of the same word, δέχεται κακὸν ἐκ κακοῦ one evil comes from (or after) another, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.290; ἐκ φόβου φόβον τρέφω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 28 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πόλιν ἐκ πόλεως ἀμείβειν, ἀλλάττειν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 224b, “Plt.” 289e; λόγον ἐκ λόγου λέγειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.313; πόρους ἐκ πόρων ὑπισχνούμενοι 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.8; ἀπαλλάττειν τινὰ ἐκ γόων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 291; ἐκ κακῶν πεφευγέναι [prev. author] “Ant.” 437 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, instead of, τυφλὸς ἐκ δεδορκότος [[ [prev. author] “OT” 454; λευκὴν..ἐκ μελαίνης ἀμφιβάλλομαι τρίχα [prev. author] “Ant.” 1093; ἐλεύθερος ἐκ δούλου καὶ πλούσιος ἐκ πτωχοῦ γεγονώς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.131, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.28, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.4 to express separation or distinction from a number, ἐκ πολέων πίσυρες four out of many, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.680; μοῦνος ἐξ ἁπάντων σωθῆναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.87 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἶναι ἐκ τῶν δυναμένων to be one of the wealthy, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 525e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμοὶ ἐκ πασέων Ζεὺς ἄλγε᾽ ἔδωκεν to me out of (i.e. above) all, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.431, compare 432; ἐκ πάντων μάλιστα 4.96, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1137 (Lyric poetry), etc.; redundant, εἷς τῶν ἐκ τῶν φίλων σου LXX.Judg.15.2. ] LXX+8th c.BC+]
__A.I.5 of Position, outside of, beyond, chiefly in early writers, ἐκ βελέων out of shot, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.130, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ καπνοῦ out of the smoke, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ πατρίδος banished from one's country, [[ 15.272 ] Refs]; ἐκ μεσου κατῆστο sate down apart from the company, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.83 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξ ἠθέων τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατεῖλαι out of its accustomed quarters, [[ [prev. author] 2.142 ] Refs]; ἐξ ὀφθαλμῶν out of sight, [[ [prev. author] 5.24 ] Refs]; ἐξ ὁδοῦ out of the road, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 113. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.6 with Verbs of Rest, where previous motion is implied, on, in, δαῖέ οἱ ἐκ κόρυθος..πῦρ lighted a fire from (i.e. on) his helmet, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.4 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ ποταμοῦ χρόα νίζετο washed his body in the river (with water from the river), [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.224: frequently with Verbs signifying hang or fasten, σειρήν..ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμάσαντες] Refs 8th c.BC+] having hung a chain from heaven, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.19 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ πασσαλόφι κρέμασεν φόρμιγγα he hung his lyre from (i.e. on) the peg, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.67 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀνάπτεσθαι ἔκ τινος fasten from i.e. upon) a thing,[[ 12.51; μαχαίρας εἶχον ἐξ ἀργυρέων τελαμώνων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.598 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρισθεὶς ἐξ ἀντύγων gripped to the chariot-rail, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1030, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τοῦ βραχίονος ἵππον ἐπέλκουσα leading it [by a rein] upon her arm, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.12: with Verbs signifying hold, lead, ἐξ ἐκείνων ἔχειν τὰς ἐλπίδας] Refs 5th c.BC+] to have their hopes dependent upon them, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.84 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ χειρὸς ἄγειν lead by the hand, [[ 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus “fragment” 7.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐκ ποδὸς ἕπεσθαι[[ [prev. work] 6.2; ἐκ τῆς οὐρᾶς λαμβάνεσθαι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Asin.” 23: with the _Article_ indicating the place of origin, οἱ ἐκ τῶν νήσων κακοῦργοι] Refs 2nd c.AD+] the robbers of the islands, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.8, compare 2.5, 13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ναυμαχίας those in the sea-fight, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 32b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ἐκ τῶν σκηνῶν those in the tents, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.169; ἁρπασόμενοι τὰ ἐκ τῶν οἰκιῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.5; οἱ ἐκ τοῦ πεδίου ἔθεον [prev. author] “An.” 4.6.25: even with Verbs of sitting or standing, εἰσεῖδε στᾶσ᾽ ἐξ Οὐλύμποιο] Refs 5th c.BC+] from Olympus where she stood, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.154 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; καθῆσθαι ἐκ πάγων to sit on the heights and look from them, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 411; στὰς ἐξ ἐπάλξεων ἄκρων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1009 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ βυθοῦ at the bottom, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.40: phrases, ἐκ δεξιᾶς, ἐξ ἀριστερᾶς,] Refs 3rd c.BC+] on the right, left, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.10, etc.; οἱ ἐξ ἐναντίας, οἱ ἐκ πλαγίοὐ [prev. work] 7.1.20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ θαλάσσης, opposed to ἐκ τῆς μεσογείας, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.301. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.I.7 νικᾶν ἔκ τινος win a victory over.., [[ NT.Rev. 15.2. ] NT]
__A.II OF TIME, elliptic with pronoun relative and demonstrative, ἐξ οὗ [χρόνου] since, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.6, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.27, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in apodosis, ἐκ τοῦ from that time, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.296; ἐκ τούτου 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.15, etc. (but ἐκ τοῖο] Refs 8th c.BC+] thereafter, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.493, and ἐκ τούτων or ἐκ τῶνδε] Refs 8th c.BC+] usually after this, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.9.4, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 235); ἐξ ἐκείνου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ πολλοῦ (i.e. χρόνου) for a long time, [[ [prev. author] 1.68, etc.; ἐκ πλέονος χρόνου [prev. author] 8.45; ἐκ πλείστου [prev. work] 68 ] Refs]; ἐξ ὀλίγου at short notice, [[ [prev. author] 2.11 ] Refs] (but also a short time since, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 28); ἐκ παλαιοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.5.8; ἐκ παλαιτάτου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.II.2 of particular points of time, ἐκ νεότητος..ἐς γῆρας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.86; ἐκ γενετῆς 24.535 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ νέου, ἐκ παιδός, from boyhood, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 510d, “R.” 374c, etc.; ἐκ μικροῦ παιδαρίου 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.19; ἐξ ἀρχῆς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 284, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καύματος ἔξ after hot weather, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.865 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νέφος ἔρχεται οὐρανὸν εἴσω αἰθέρος ἐκ δίης after clear weather,[[ 16.365; ἐκ δὲ αἰθρίης καὶ νηνεμίης συνδραμεῖν ἐξαπίνης νέφεα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so (like ἀπό II) ἐκ τῆς θυσίης γενέσθαι to have just finished sacrifice, [[[prev. work] 50 ] Refs], etc.; ἐκ τοῦ ἀρίστου after breakfast, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξ εἰρήνης πολεμεῖν to go to war after peace, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120; γελάσαι ἐκ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν δακρύων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.28; κάλλιστον ἦμαρ εἰσιδεῖν ἐκ χείματος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 900; τὴν θάλασσαν ἐκ Διονυσίων πλόϊμον εἶναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 3.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ χειμῶνος at the end of winter, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Nicias” 20. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.II.3 at, in, ἐκ νυκτῶν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.286; ἐκ νυκτός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.2, etc.; ἐξ ἡμέρας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 780; ἐκ μέσω ἄματος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ τοῦ λοιποῦ or ἐκ τῶν λοιπῶν for the future, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.56, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 709e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.1 of Material, out of or of which things are made, γίγνεταί τι ἔκ τινος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.12; ποιέεσθαι ἐκ ξύλων τὰ πλοῖα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.194; πίνοντας ἐκ κριθῶν μέθυ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 953; εἶναι ἐξ ἀδάμαντος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 616c; ἐκ λευκῶ ἐλέφαντος αἰετοί 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.123; στράτευμα ἀλκιμώτατον ἂν γένοιτο ἐκ παιδικῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; συνετάττετο ἐκ τῶν ἔτι προσιόντων formed line of battle from the troops as they marched up, [[ [prev. author] “An.” 1.8.14. ] Refs]
__A.III.2 of Parentage, ἔκ τινος εἶναι, γενέσθαι, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.106, 6.206, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ γὰρ ἐμεῦ γένος ἐσσί (where γένος is accusative [[ _absolutely_) 5.896; σῆς ἐξ αἵματός εἰσι γενέθλης 19.111; ὦ παῖ πατρὸς ἐξ Ἀχιλλέως 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 260; πίρωμις ἐκ πιρώμιος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.143; ἀγαθοὶ καὶ ἐξ ἀγαθῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 246a; τὸν ἐξ ἐμῆς μητρός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 466, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.3 of Place of Origin or Birth, ἐκ Σιδῶνος..εὔχομαι εἶναι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.425, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.25, etc.; ἐκ τῶν ἄνω εἰμί NT.John.8.23 ] NT+8th c.BC+]; ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλή the Areopagus, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 4.4, etc.; οἱ ἐκ τῆς διατριβῆς ταύτης 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.54 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ ἐκ τοῦ Περιπάτου the Peripatetics, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 43 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὁ ἐξ Ἀκαδημείας the Academic, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 1.34b; οἱ ἐκ πίστεως NT.Gal.3.7; οἱ ἐξ ἐριθείας NT.Rom.2.8. ] NT+2nd c.AD+]
__A.III.4 of the Author or Occasion of a thing, ὄναρ, τιμὴ ἐκ Διός ἐστιν, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.63, 2.197, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.33, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 707, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θάνατος ἐκ μνηστήρων death by the hand of the suitors, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.447 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐξ Ἑλλήνων τείχεα walls built by them, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.148 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κίνημα ἐξ αὑτοῦ spontaneous motion, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.1.21; ὕμνος ἐξ Ἐρινύων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 331 (Lyric poetry); ἡ ἐξ ἐμοῦ δυσβουλία 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 95; ὁ ἐξ ἐμοῦ πόθος [prev. author] “Tr.” 631. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.5 with the agent after passive Verbs, by, poetical and early Prose, ἐφίληθεν ἐκ Διός they were beloved of (i.e.by) Zeus, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.669 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κήδε᾽ ἐφῆπται ἐκ Διός[[ [prev. work] 70; προδεδόσθαι ἐκ Πρηξάσπεος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.62; τὰ λεχθέντα ἐξ Ἀλεξάνδρου [prev. author] 7.175, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 124 (Lyric poetry), “Ant.” 93, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.69, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 47b; ἐξ ἁπάντων ἀμφισβητήσεται [prev. author] “Tht.” 171b; ὁμολογουμένους ἐκ πάντων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.1; τὰς ἐκ θεῶν τύχας δοθείσας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1316, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 204c: with _neuter_ Verbs, ἐκ..πατρὸς κακὰ πείσομαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.134, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 759; τλῆναί τι ἔκ τινος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.384; θνήσκειν ἔκ τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 579, “OT” 854, etc.; τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.III.6 of Cause, Instrument, or Means by which a thing is done, ἐκ πατέρων φιλότητος in consequence of our fathers' friendship, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.197; μήνιος ἐξ ὀλοῆς 3.135; ἐξ ἔριδος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.111; τελευτῆσαι ἐκ τοῦ τρώματος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.29 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ τίνος λόγο; [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 548 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ το; wherefore? [[ [prev. author] “Hel.” 93; λέξον ἐκ τίνος ἐπλήγης 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποιεῖτε ὑμῖν φίλους ἐκ τοῦ Μαμωνᾶ τῆς ἀδικίας make yourselves friends of (i.e. by means of).., [[ NT.Luke.16.9; ζῆν ἔκ τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.11 codices; ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων τρέφειν ἐμαυτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.152; ἐκ τόξων ἀνύσαι γαστρὶ φορβάν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 710 (Lyric poetry). ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__A.III.7 in accordance with, ἐκ τῶν λογίων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.64; ὁ ἐκ τῶν νόμων χρόνος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.28; ἐκ κελεύματος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 397, compare 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 25; ἐκ τῶν ξυγκειμένων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.25; ἐκ τῶν παρόντων [prev. work] 40, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τῶν ἔργων κρινόμενοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.21, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 485. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.8 frequently as periphrastic for adverb, ἐκ προνοίας [[ “IG” 12.115.11 ] Refs]; ἐκ βίας by force, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 563; ἐκ δόλου [prev. author] “El.” 279; ἐκ παντὸς τρόπου ζητεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 499a: especially with _neuter_ _adjectives_, ἐξ ἀγχιμόλοιο, ={ἀγχίμολον}, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.352; ἐκ τοῦ ἐμφανέος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.150 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκ τοῦ φανεροῦ, ἐκ τοῦ προφανοῦς, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.106, 6.73; ἐκ προδήλου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1429 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξ ἴσου, ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου, [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 485, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.3; ἐξ ἀέλπτου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.111, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with feminine adjective, ἐκ τῆς ἰθέης [[ [prev. author] 3.127; ἐκ νέης [prev. author] 5.116; ἐξ ὑστέρης [prev. author] 6.85; ἐκ τῆς ἀντίης [prev. author] 8.6; ἐκ καινῆς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.92; ἐξ ἑκουσίας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 727; ἐκ ταχείας [prev. work] 395. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.9 of Number or Measurement, with numerals, ἐκ τρίτων in the third place, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1178, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 500a, “Smp.” 213b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; distributively, apiece, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 15.671b. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.III.9.b of Price, ἐξ ὀκτὼ ὀβολῶν [[ “SIG” 2587.206; ἐκ τριῶν δραχμῶν [prev. work]283; συμφωνήσας ἐκ δηναρίου NT.Matt.20.2. ] NT]
__A.III.9.c of Weight, ἐπιπέμματα ἐξ ἡμιχοινικίου [[ “Inscription Prien.” 362 (4th c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.III.9.d of Space, θινώδης ὢν ὁ τόπος ἐξ εἴκοσι σταδίων by the space of twenty stades, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.3.19. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B ἐκ is frequently separated from its CASE, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.109, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]—It takes an accent in anastrophe, [[ 14.472, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.518.—_Epic dialect_ use it with _adverbs_ in -θεν, ἐξ οὐρανόθεν, ἐξ ἁλόθεν, ἐξ Αἰσύμηθεν, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.548, 21.335, 8.304; ἐκ Διόθεν 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 765; ἐκ πρῴρηθεν 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.11.] Refs 8th c.BC+] —It is combined with other Preps. to make the sense more definite, as διέκ, παρέκ, ὑπέκ.
__C IN COMPOSITION (joined with other words), the sense of removal prevails; out, away, off.
__C.2 to express completion, like our utterly, ἐκπέρθω, ἐξαλαπάζω, ἐκβαρβαρόω, ἐκδιδάσκω, ἐκδιψάω, ἐκδωριεύομαι, ἐξοπλίζω, ἐξομματόω, ἔκλευκος, ἔκπικρος.
__D As adverb, therefrom, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.480. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
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