ἔκφορ-ος (ekphoros)

Where it lives

Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Laches 1 · 1.3/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἔκφορ-ος · ekphor-os — LSJ

exportable

exportable, f.l. for ἐκφορά, Ar. Pl. 1138.

2 to be made known, divulged

to be made known or divulged, εἰ δʼ ἔ. σοι ξυμφορὰ πρὸς ἄρσενας E. Hipp. 295; οὐδεὶς γὰρ ἔ. λόγος Pl. La. 201a; cf. ἐκφορά I.2.

3 carried astray, runaway

carried astray, Plu. Def.orac. 2.424a; ἵππος ἔ. a runaway horse, Gal. 5.510.

4 produce

ἔκφορα, τά, produce of the earth, Antipho Soph. 60.

II carrying out, more ready to carry, out to burial, more ready to weed, out

Act., carrying out:—in A. Eu. 910 τῶν δυσσεβούντων ἐκφορωτέρα is not, more ready to carry them out to burial (v. ἐκφορά I), but rather, more ready to weed them out, as a gardener does noxious plants (ἀνδρὸς φιτυποίμενος δίκην, in next line).

2 blabbing, betraying

blabbing, betraying secrets, Ar. Th. 472.

3

= εὐέκφορος (quod fort. leg.), γυναῖκες Arist. Fr. 283.

4 expressive

expressive, κίνησις ἔ. τινος Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.112.

III reefing-ropes

as Subst., ἔκφοροι, οἱ, reefing-ropes, = τέρθριοι, Sch. Ar. Eq. 438, Phot. s.v. ἡνιόχους.

In the wild

ἐκφορωτέρα · ekphorōtera Aeschylus, Eumenides 910
ἔκφορος · ekphoros Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 358)
ἔκφορος · ekphoros Plato, Laches 201
ἔκφορον · ekphoron Plotinus, Enneads 6.9 (DIORISIS sentence 6511)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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