ἐξελών (exelon)

ἐξελών is an Ancient Greek form of ἐξαιρέω, meaning “take out, remove; capture”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine or future active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ἐξελαύνω, “drive out; march out”.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 571: θάψω νεκροὺς γῆς ἐξελὼν Ἀσωπίας.

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 607b: καὶ γὰρ ἦλθες ἐξελῶν.

Plato, Sophist 230: … μάτων ὄνησιν, πρὶν ἂν ἐλέγχων τις τὸν ἐλεγχόμενον εἰς αἰσχύνην καταστήσας, τὰς τοῖς μαθήμασιν ἐμποδίους δόξας ἐξελών, καθαρὸν ἀποφήνῃ καὶ ταῦτα ἡγούμενον ἅπερ οἶδεν εἰδέναι μόνα, πλείω δὲ μή. βελτίστη γοῦν καὶ σωφρονεστάτη τῶν …

All forms of ἐξαιρέω (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.