ἔξοχος
exochos
standing out, jutting
Appears 36 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἔξοχος, ον, A. standing out, jutting, πρῶνες N. 4.52; ἁφαί Sch. Hipp. 530: c. gen., ἔξοχος Ἀργείων κεφαλήν prominent above them, Il. 3.227. II. more freq. metaph., eminent, excellent, ἔξοχον ἄνδρα Il. 2.188; αἶσα N. 6.47: Comp. -ώτερος ib.3.71: Sup. -ώτατος ib.2.18, Ag. 1622, Supp. 889; τῶν φίλων τὸν -ώτατον Lib.p.20O.; ἐξοχώτατος, = Lat. eminentissimus, ἔπαρχος ογι 640.16 (iii A.D.), POxy. 1469.1 (iii A.D.), cf. IG 14.2433 (Massilia, iii A.D.); οἱ -ώτατοι τῆς βουλῆς 2.12.6. b. c. gen., standing out from, raised above, freq. used like a Sup., most eminent, mightiest, ἔξοχος ἡρώων Il. 18.56; τέμενος τάμον ἔ. ἄλλων 6.194, etc.; βοῦς ἀγέληφι μέγʼ ἔ. ἔπλετο πάντων 2.480; ἀριθμὸν ἔ. σοφισμάτων Pr. 459; οὐδεὶς ἔ. ἄλλος ἔβλαστεν ἄλλου Fr. 591; ἁπάσης νοῦν τε καὶ ἀνορέαν ἔξοχος ἡλικίας beyond all his contemporaries, IG 12.1021. c. c. dat., αἶγας . . αἳ πᾶσι μέγʼ ἔξοχοι αἰπολίοισιν Od. 21.266, cf. 15.227; also ἐκπρεπέʼ ἐν πολλοῖσι καὶ ἔξοχον ἡρώεσσιν Il. 2.483. 2. freq. in in pl., ἔξοχα as Adv. (cf. ὄχα), especially, above others, ὅς κʼ ἔ. μὲν φιλέῃσιν, ἔ. δʼ ἐχθαίρῃσιν Od. 15.70, cf. Il. 5.61; ἔ. λυγρὰ ἰδυῖα Od. 11.432; ἐμοὶ δόσαν ἔ. gave me as a high honour, 9.551: with Sup., ἔξοχʼ ἄριστοι beyond compare the best, Il. 9.638, Od. 4.629, al. b. c. gen., ἔ. πάντων far above all, Il. 14.257, etc.; ἔξοχʼ ἑταίρων P. 5.26; ἔ. πλούτου above all wealth, O. 1.2.—Regul. Adv.-χως ib.9.69, Ba. 1235, 1195, Mu. 400b1, 3 Ma. 5.31: Comp. -ώτερον 1.99: Sup. -ώτατα N. 4.92.
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