ἐκλύω [ῡ,
see at {λύω}], set free, πόνων from labours, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 328 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; release, ὕδατα [[ “PTeb.” 49.6 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—passive, to be set free, ἐκλέλυμαι πόθου [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1339; ἐκ δεσμῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 67d ] Refs 6th c.BC+]:—middle, get one set free, release, ἀλλ᾽ ἄγε δή σε κακῶν ἐκλύσομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.286; τοῦ φόβου σ᾽ ἐξελυσάμην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1003; θανάτου νιν ἐκλύσασθε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 818; ἐξελυσάμην βροτοὺς τὸ μὴ μολεῖν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 237: with _accusative_ _person_ only, ἐξελύσαντο τοὺς Ἀργείους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.25: _absolutely_, ἐξελυσάμην] Refs 8th c.BC+] I delivered him from danger, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 531. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II unloose, ἐ. τόξα unstring a bow, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.173; ἐ. ἁρμούς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 825 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκαιὸν ἐκλύσων στόμα likely to let loose a foolish tongue, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1225. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 make an end of, ἐξέλυσας..σκληρᾶς ἀοιδοῦ δασμόν paid it off, [[ [prev. author] “OT” 35; ἐπίπονον ἁμέραν [prev. author] “Tr.” 654; μόχθον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 695; ἔριν καὶ φιλονικίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξελύσατε (variant{-λύσασθε}) τὰς παρασκευάς [[ [prev. author] 18.26. ] Refs]
__II.3 relax, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 610a27; τῆς φροντίδος τὸ ἀκριβές 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dom.” 17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:— passive, to be faint, fail, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 2.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.59, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.224, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.69 W., etc.; πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.150 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκλυθῆναι τοῖς σώμασι, τῇ ψυχῇ, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 144, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 29.17.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] (so intransitive in active, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 1.33.5)] Refs 1st c.AD+], etc.; of things, to be unserviceable, τὰ τῶν πλοίων ἐκλελυμένα [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1320b37 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐκλύεται ὁ ῥοῦς, τὰ ῥεύματα, cease, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.43.9, 4.41.5. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]