The corpus record

ἐκλέπω

eklepo

free from shell

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Where it lives

Abdias 1 · 22.73/10k
Ichneutae 1 · 5.82/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Genesis 4 · 1.33/10k
Regnorum II 2 · 1.24/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Parmenides 1 · 0.66/10k
Regnorum IV 1 · 0.58/10k
Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐκλέπω · eklepō — LSJ

free from shell, rind, peel, hatch

free from shell or rind, peel, κόκκους Hp. Mul. 1.81, 84; of crocodiles and birds, hatch their young, Hdt. 2.68, Cratin. 108, cf. Ar. Av. 1108; of serpents, Hdt. 3.109; of insects and tortoises, Arist. HA 553a8, 558a10:—Pass., fut. ἐκλᾰπήσομαι v.l. (ap. Erot.) in Hp. Nat.Puer. 29: aor. ἐκλᾰπῆναι Ar. Fr. 164.

In the wild

ἔκλεψε · eklepse Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1134a (DIORISIS sentence 1752)
ἔκλεψε · eklepse Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1149b (DIORISIS sentence 2387)
ἔκλεψεν · eklepsen Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
ἐκλέπει · eklepei Herodotus, Histories 2.68.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2024)
ἐκλέπουσι · eklepousi Herodotus, Histories 3.109.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3713)
ἔκλεψʼ · eklepsʼ Works and Days 50–52

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Where it came from

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