ἐξοπίσω

Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐξ- (ex-) +‎ ὀπίσω (opísō).

Adverb

ἐξοπίσω • (exopísō)

1. (of place) backwards, back again
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.461
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.436
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 88
2. (of time) hereafter
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.35
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 500
   • Tyrtaeus, Fragmenta 12.30
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.68
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Paean 2.27

Preposition

ἐξοπίσω • (exopísō) (governs the genitive)

1. behind
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.357
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 534

Further reading

• “ἐξοπίσω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐξοπίσω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἐξοπίσω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἐξοπίσω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐξοπίσω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter