Ancient Greek

Verb

ἐκλέγω • ‎(eklégō)

1. to pick or single out, to choose
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.59
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.6.19
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 535.A
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 811.A
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.199
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.38
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 198.D
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Evagoras 58
   1. (in middle voice) to pull out one's gray hairs
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 908
2. to levy taxes or tribute
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.44
   • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 92
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timotheus 49
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, Characters 6.4
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.113
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.22

Inflection

References

• ἐκλέγω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἐκλέγω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἐκλέγω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἐκλέγω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• «ἐκλέγω» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften