ἐξιέναι (exienai)

ἐξιέναι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐξίημι, meaning “send out, let go”. It is the present active infinitive.

It can also be a form of ἔξειμι, “go out”.

Found 129 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.48.1: … Ἀθηναίους ἐπεκαλοῦντο καὶ ἐκέλευον σφᾶς, εἰ βούλονται, αὐτοὺς διαφθείρειν, ἔκ τε τοῦ οἰκήματος οὐκέτι ἤθελον ἐξιέναι, οὐδ’ ἐσιέναι ἔφασαν κατὰ δύναμιν περιόψεσθαι οὐδένα.

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 3.89: Ἐξιέναι δὲ τοῦ στρατοπέδου δέον ὑποσημαίνει μὲν ἡ σάλπιγξ, ἠρεμεῖ δʼ οὐδείς, ἀλλʼ ἅμα νεύματι τὰς μὲν σκηνὰς ἀναιροῦσιν, πάντα δʼ ἐξαρτύονται πρὸς τὴν ἔξοδον.

Appianus of Alexandria, Mithridatic Wars 3.16: … υον ἀπέχεσθαι Νικομήδους καὶ Καππαδοκίας (αὐτοὶ γὰρ αὖθις Ἀριοβαρζάνην ἐς αὐτὴν κατάξειν), Πελοπίδαν δʼ εὐθὺς ἐξιεναι τοῦ στρατοπέδου, καὶ μηκέτι πρεσβεύειν ἐς αὑτους, εἰ μὴ τοῖς κελευομένοις ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐμμένοι. οὕτω μὲν ἀπεκρί …

All forms of ἐξίημι (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.