STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: ἐκπίπτω

ἐκπίπτω,

future -πεσοῦμαι: aorist ἐξέπεσον: perfect ἐκπέπτωκα:— fall out of, δίφρου [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.585; ἵππων 11.179; ἀντύγων ἄπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1193, etc.: with _dative_ _person_, τόξον δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.465 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θαλερὸν δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε δάκρυ fell from his eyes, [[ 2.266: _absolutely_, ] Refs]fall out, [[ 23.467 ] Refs]; fall down, of trees, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.2.7; οἱ λεγόμενοι ἀστέρες ἐκπίπτειν ] Refs 4th c.BC+]meteors, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.54U. —After 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, in various relations, frequently as ] Refs 8th c.BC+]passive of ἐκβάλλω:

__1 of seafaring men, to be cast ashore, ἐκ δ᾽ ἔπεσον θυμηγερέων [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.283; ἐ. τῇσι νηυσὶ ἐς Ἰηπυγίην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.138; πρὸς τὰς πέτρας [prev. author] 8.13; πρὸς πέτραις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1211 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ναυαγὸν ἐ.[[ [prev. work] 539; ἐ. πρὸς τὴν χώραν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 866d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of things, suffer shipwreck, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.5.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of fish, to be cast up, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 601b32. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]

__2 fall from a thing, i.e. be deprived of it, ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ εὐδαιμόνων ἐς πτωχηΐην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τυραννίδος, ἀρχῆς, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 756, 757; [ἀπὸ] τῶν ἐλπίδων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.81; ἐκ τῆς δόξης 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.64; τῶν ὑπαρχόντων 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Ir.” p.51 W. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]