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ἐκκλείω , Ion. ἐκκληΐω or ἐκκηρ-κλήω , old Att. ἐκκλήω : Att. fut. -
A.“κλῄσω” E.Or.1127 : Dor. aor. 1 -“κλᾳξα” Com.Adesp.1203.7 (dub.) : pf. “ἐκκέκλεικα” Men.Sam.201 :—shut out from, c.gen., ἐ. ἄλλον ἄλλοσε στέγης E.l.c. :—Pass., to be shut out, Id.HF330.
2. metaph., shut out, exclude from, “πόλιν τῆς μετοχῆς” Hdt.1.144 ; τῆς συμμαχίας, τῶν ὅρκων, Aeschin.2.85,3.74 : c. acc. et inf., “ἐξέκλειον λόγου τυγχάνειν τοὺς ἄλλους” D.19.26.
3. hinder, prevent, “τῷ καιρῷ τὴν κατηγορίαν” Plb.18.8.2 ; “τὴν θήραν” D.S.3.16 :—Pass., ἐκκληϊόμενοι τῇ ὥρῃ being prevented by [want of] time, Hdt.1.31 ; “ἐκκλεισθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν καιρῶν” D.S.18.3 : c. inf., “ἐ. ποιεῖν τι” Id.4.32, cf. Arist.MM1198b16.
4. shut off, cut off, “ζωῆς ὁδούς” Opp.C.2.342.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 85
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 74
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 26
    • Euripides, Orestes, 1127
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.144
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.31
    • Polybius, Histories, 18.8.2
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.16
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