ἐκλογ-ή, ἡ,
choice, selection, τῶν ἀρχόντων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 414a, 536c; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Lg.” 802b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. [τῶν ἀρίστων νόμων] [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1181a18; τῶν ἐναντίων [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1004a2; ὀνομάτων 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.162 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 1, etc.; ὀνόματος 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 71.10; κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν ἀριστίνδην κεκριμένοι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.10.9; ἐπὶ ἐγλογῇ γεωργεῖν “PTeb.” 5.166 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 levying of troops, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.63.11. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__3 collection of tribute, etc., κριθῶν Legal Attica cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 6.235c; χρημάτων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.6 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; σίτου Cratesap.[[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 6.235b. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 Theol., election[[ NT.Rom.9.11 ] NT], etc.; σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς [[ NT.Act.9.15. ] NT]
__5 balancing of accounts, [[ “PRyl.” 157.6 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II extract, quotation from a book, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus Cit. 3, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 14.663c, 3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus “Mirabilia” 15. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]