ἔξοχ-ος, ον,
standing out, jutting, πρῶνες [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.52 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἁφαί [[Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 530: with _genitive_, ἔξοχος Ἀργείων κεφαλήν] Refs 5th c.BC+] prominent above them, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.227. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II more frequently metaphorically, eminent, excellent, ἔξοχον ἄνδρα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.188; αἶσα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.47: _comparative_ -ώτερος [prev. work] 3.71: _superlative_ -ώτατος [prev. work] 2.18, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1622, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 889; τῶν φίλων τὸν -ώτατον 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.20O. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐξοχώτατος, = Latin eminentissimus, ἔπαρχος ογι [[ 640.16 (3rd c.AD), “POxy.” 1469.1 (3rd c.AD),compare “IG” 14.2433 (Massilia, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; οἱ -ώτατοι τῆς βουλῆς [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.12.6. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.b with genitive, standing out from, raised above, frequently used like a superlative, most eminent, mightiest, ἔξοχος ἡρώων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.56; τέμενος τάμον ἔ. ἄλλων 6.194, etc.; βοῦς ἀγέληφι μέγ᾽ ἔ. ἔπλετο πάντων 2.480; ἀριθμὸν ἔ. σοφισμάτων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 459; οὐδεὶς ἔ. ἄλλος ἔβλαστεν ἄλλου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 591 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἁπάσης νοῦν τε καὶ ἀνορέαν ἔξοχος ἡλικίας beyond all his contemporaries, [[ “IG” 12.1021. ] Refs]
__II.c with dative, αἶγας.. αἳ πᾶσι μέγ᾽ ἔξοχοι αἰπολίοισιν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.266, compare 15.227; also ἐκπρεπἔ ἐν πολλοῖσι καὶ ἔξοχον ἡρώεσσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.483. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]