Iliad 5.81: ἔξεσε

Greek Homeric Greek and Early Greek Poetry
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Does anyone know wich verb ἔξεσε is a form of? I can’t find it in Cunliffe’s “A lexicon of the Homeric dialect” and Perseus is so painfully slow I don’t even consider using it.

From context I can deduct it means cutting off.

2

Hi perispomenon,

Have a look at ξέω.

Best, N.

3

It’s from ξέω, “scrape.” Think ξεστός.

4

Thanks. I was focussing on ?ξ too much.