A.step out of or off from, c. gen., “πέτρης ἐκβαίνοντα” Il.4.107 ; “ἔκβαιν᾽ ἀπήνης” A.Ag. 906 ; “ἐ. ἐκ τῆς νεώς” Th.1.137 (so in tmesi, “ἐκ δὲ Χρυσηΐς νηὸς βῆ” Il.1.439) : abs., step out of a ship or chariot, disembark, dismount, “ἐκ δ᾽ ἔβαν αὐτοί” 3.113, cf. 1.437, Hdt.4.196, etc. ; step out of the sea, Od. 5.415,7.278 ; debouch from a defile, X.An.4.2.3 ; καταστρατοπεδεύσασθαι ἐπὶ λόφον ἐκβάντες ib.6.3.20 : rarely exc. of persons, but “βοὴ ..ἐξέβη ϝάπους” S.Aj.892.
2. go out of, depart from, “ψυχὴ ἐ. ἐκ τοῦ σώματος” Pl.Phd.77d ; “ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου” Plb.3.40.7 : c. gen., “ἐ. τύχης” E.IT907 ; “ἐ. τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἰδέας” Pl.R.380d ; “τῆς λεκτικῆς ἁρμονίας” Arist.Po.1449a27 ; “τι τῆς εἰωθυίας διαίτης” Pl.R.406b ; “ἔνθεν ἐ.” Id.Ti.44e ; withdraw from, “ἐκ τῆς νομοθεσίας” Id.Lg.744a ; μισθώσεως, γεωργίας, BGU1120.52 (i B.C.), PTeb.309.14 (ii A.D.).
b. usu. with the sense, outstep, overstep, “γαίας ὅρια” E.HF82 ; “τὴν ἡλικίαν τοῦ γεννᾶν” Pl.R.461b ; τριάκοντα ἔτη ib.537d ; τὸν ὅρκον v.l. in Id.Smp. 183b ; “τὸ μέσον” Arist.Pol.1296a26.
4. in Poets, the instrument of motion is added in acc., “ἐκβὰς..ἁρμάτων πόδα” E.Heracl.802.
5. to be produced, of crops, “οἱ ἐκβησόμενοι καρποί” PLips.23.20 (iv A.D.), etc.
6. project, of ground, PTeb.84.91 (ii B.C.).
II. metaph.,
1. come out, turn out, Hdt.7.209 ; τῇ περ ὥρων ἐκβησόμενα πρήγματα ταῦτα ibid. ; τὰ μέλλοντά σφι ἐκβαίνειν ib.221, cf. Th.7.14, etc. ; of a total obtained by measurement, PAmh.2.31 (ii B.C.).
2. to be fulfilled, of prophecies, etc., D.19.28 ; also “τοιοῦτον ἐκβέβηκεν” S.Tr.672 ; κάκιστος ἐ. to prove a villain, E.Med.229 ; “κατὰ νοῦν ἐ. τινί” Pl.Mx.247d ; “ἄν τι μὴ κατὰ γνώμην ἐκβῇ” D.1.16 ; τὸ ἐκβάν, τὰ ἐκβαίνοντα, the issue, event, D.1.11, Plb.2.27.5.
3. go out of due bounds, “ἐς τοῦτ᾽ ἐκβέβηκ᾽ ἀλγηδόνος” E.Med.56 ; “ποῖποτ᾽ ἐξέβης λόγῳ ;” S.Ph.896 ; ἐξέβην γὰρ ἄλλοσε I wandered elsewhere in thought, E. IT781 ; in writing, digress, “ἐπάνειμι ἔνθεν ἐξέβην” X.HG6.5.1, cf. 7.4.1, D.18.211, Pl.Lg.864c.
4. project, extend beyond a limit, POxy. 918 xi 20 (ii A.D.) : metaph., transcend, “ἐ. ὑπὲρ τὸ μέγα ὂν καὶ ὑπὲρ τὸ μικρόν” Porph.Sent.34.
5. lapse, “πρὶν ἐκβῆναί τινι τὴν στρατηγίαν” App.Syr.23.