ἐξᾰλείφω,
perfect passive ἐξαλήλιμμαι (see. below): subjunctive aorist 2 passive ἐξαλῐφῇ variant in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 258b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— plaster or wash over, τοῦ σώματος τὸ ἥμισυ ἐξηλείφοντο γύψῳ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.69 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾗ ἔτυχε.. οὐκ ἐξαληλιμμένον τὸ τεῖχος where it was not whitewashed, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.20; τοὺς βωμοὺς ἐξαλείψαντι “IG” 11.161 A 103 (Delos, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, anoint, μύρῳ βρενθείῳ ἐξαλείψαο [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 23.20. ] Refs 7th c.BC+]
__II wipe out, obliterate, ἐξαλειφθεῖσ᾽ ὡς ἄγαλμα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 262 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, wipe out of one's mind, πάντα τὰ πρόσθεν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 187b; τὸ γιγνώσκειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ὑπόνοιαν] [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 310 (probably)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; cancel, ἐ. ψηφίσματα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.76; νόμους 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.48; αἰτίας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 40.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐξαλειφόντων (i.e. τὸ ὀφείλημα) [[ “IG” 12.91.10] Refs]; especially at Athens, ἐ. τινὰ ἐκ τοῦ καταλόγου strike his name off the roll, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.51, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 36.2; so ἐ. τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 877, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.39 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐγγράφω, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1181, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 30.2, etc.; ὑμᾶς ἐκ παντὸς τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.57:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, ἐξαλείψασθαι τὰς ἀπογραφάς to get one's inventory cancelled, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 850d: _metaphorically_, ἐ. πάθος φρενός] Refs 5th c.BC+] blot it out from one's mind, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 590. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]