The corpus record

ἔκτοπ-ος

ektopos

away from a place

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Where it lives

Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ἔκτοπ-ος · ektop-os — LSJ

away from a place, distant, leave the place

away from a place, c. gen., τῶνδʼ ἑδράνων πάλιν ἔ. ἔκθορε S. OC 233 (lyr.); distant, ἄρουρα Id. Tr. 32; ἔ. ἔστω let him leave the place, E. Ba. 69 (anap.).

II foreign, strange, strange

foreign, strange, [τέθνηκεν] αὐτὴ πρὸς αὐτῆς, οὐδενὸς πρὸς ἐκτόπου by no strange hand, S. Tr. 1132.

2 out of the way, strange, extraordinary, eccentric, extraordinarily

out of the way, strange, extraordinary, δένδρον Ar. Av. 1474 (lyr.); ὁτιοῦν τῶν ἐ. Pl. Lg. 799c; χειμών Thphr. CP 6.18.12; ἱστορία ἔ. Plu. Sollert. 2.977e; of persons, eccentric, Arist. Pr. 954b2. Adv. -πως extraordinarily, Id. Mir. 833a14, PPetr. 3p.150, Plb. 32.3.8: Comp. -ωτέρως Arist. Metaph. 989b30 codd.

ἔκτοπον· ἔξοδον, Hsch.

In the wild

ἔκτοπόν · ektopon Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1084)
ἐκτοπωτέροις · ektopōterois Aristotle, Metaphysics book 1 (DIORISIS sentence 238)
ἔκτοπος · ektopos Euripides, Bacchae 69–70
ἐκτόπων · ektopōn Plato, Laws 799
ἔκτοπος · ektopos Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 233–236
ἐκτόπου · ektopou Sophocles, Trachiniae 1132

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