ἐξέλιπον (exelipon)

ἐξέλιπον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐκλείπω, meaning “leave, fail, abandon”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.113.3: καὶ τὴν Βοιωτίαν ἐξέλιπον Ἀθηναῖοι πᾶσαν, σπονδὰς ποιησάμενοι ἐφ’ ᾧ τοὺς ἄνδρας κομιοῦνται.

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 3.30.6: … ἵππων ʽπολλοὶ γὰρ αὐτῷ ἵπποι ἔν τε τῇ ὑπερβολῇ τοῦ Καυκάσου καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπὶ τὸν Ὄξον τε καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὄξου πορείᾳ ἐξέλιπονʼ ὡς ἐπὶ Μαράκανδα ἦγε· τὰ δέ ἐστι βασίλεια τῆς Σογδιανῶν χώρας. ἔνθεν δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν Τάναϊν ποταμὸν προῄει.

Procopius, De Bellis 6.7.16: Γότθοι τε οἳ τὸ ἐν Πόρτῳ φρούριον εἶχον, ἐπιλελοιπότων σφᾶς τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἐξέλιπόν τε αὐτὸ Οὐιττίγιδος γνώμῃ, καὶ ἐς τὸ στρατόπεδον μετάπεμπτοι ἦλθον· Παῦλος δὲ αὐτὸ ξὺν τοῖς Ἰσαύροις ἐξ Ὀστίας καταλαβὼν ἔσχεν.

All forms of ἐκλείπω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.