ἔκ-θλιψις, εως, ἡ,
squeezing out, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 7.85, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 342a15, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.50U. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ λοιποῦ (i.e. οῠρον) [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 5.16. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II affliction, distress, [[ LXX.Eze.12.18. ] LXX]
__III Grammars, ecthlipsis, ejection of a letter, as σκῆπτρον, σκᾶπτον, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Conjunctionibus;” 230.10, etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also, elision, [[ 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 984.15 (_plural_). ] Refs]