ἔκλῠσις, εως, ἡ,
release, deliverance from a thing, ἀφροσύνης [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 590 (= 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 13.70); ἄθλων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 264; τοῦδε τοῦ νοσήματος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 306; δεσμοῦ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.33; Ἀΐδεω “Anthologia Graeca” 6.219.24 (Antip.(?)). ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__2 weakening of an opponent's case, [[ Herodianus Rhetor “de Figuris - Rhet.” p.91 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, compare 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor “De Figuris” 1.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II feebleness, faintness, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 7.8, etc.; τῆς πόλεως ἔ. καὶ μαλακία 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 17.29; ψυχικῶν δυνάμεων 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.154; φυσική 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 55; ἐκλύσιες κοιλίης ] Refs 5th c.BC+]relaxations, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 625. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 laxity, of style, [[[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor] “Rh.” 12. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__III lowering of the voice through three quarter-tones (διέσεις), [[ Bacchius Musicus “Intr.” 41, 3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 1.10, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1141b. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]