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ἔκδῠσις

ekdusis · ἡ

getting out, escape

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Where it lives

Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Cratylus 1 · 0.56/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἔκδῠσις · ekdysis — LSJ

getting out, escape, way out

getting out, escape, opp. ἔσοδος, Hdt. 2.121.γʹ; τὴν ἔ. ποιεῖσθαι to make their way out, Id. 3.109 ; οὐκ ἔστι Ἕλλησι οὐδεμία ἔ. μὴ οὐκ εἶναι δούλους Id. 8.100, cf. Pl. Cra. 426a ; πόθεν ἔκδυσιν εὗρες λατρείης δοξῶν ; Timo 48 (v.l. ἔκλυσιν).

II stripping, deprivation

stripping, deprivation, Man. 4.331 (pl.).

In the wild

ἔκδυσιν · ekdysin Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.11 (DIORISIS sentence 8216)
ἔκδυσιν · ekdysin Herodotus, Histories 2.121C.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2393)
ἔκδυσιν · ekdysin Herodotus, Histories 3.109.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3712)
ἔκδυσιν · ekdysin Herodotus, Histories 3.146.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3996)
ἔκδυσις · ekdysis Herodotus, Histories 8.100.3 (DIORISIS sentence 9012)
ἐκδύσεις · ekdyseis Plato, Cratylus 426 (DIORISIS sentence 1068)

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