ἔξοχος

A. standing out, jutting, πρῶνες Pi. N. 4.52; ἁφαί Sch.E. Hipp. 530: c. gen., ἔξοχος Ἀργείων κεφαλήν prominent above them, Il. 3.227.

II. more freq. metaph., eminent, excellent, ἔξοχον ἄνδρα Il. 2.188; αἶσα Pi. N. 6.47: Comp. ‐ώτερος ib.3.71: Sup. ‐ώτατος ib.2.18, A. Ag. 1622, E. Supp. 889; τῶν φίλων τὸν ‐ώτατον Phld. Lib. p.20O.; ἐξοχώτατος, = Lat. eminentissimus, ἔπαρχος ογι 640.16 (iii A.D.), POxy. 1469.1 (iii A.D.), cf. IG 14.2433 (Massilia, iii A.D.); οἱ ‐ώτατοι τῆς βουλῆς Hdn. 2.12.6.

b. c. gen., standing out from, raised above, freq. used like a Sup., most eminent, mightiest, ἔξοχος ἡρώων Il. 18.56; τέμενος τάμον ἔ. ἄλλων 6.194, etc.; βοῦς ἀγέληφι μέγ’ ἔ. ἔπλετο πάντων 2.480; ἀριθμὸν ἔ. σοφισμάτων A. Pr. 459; οὐδεὶς ἔ. ἄλλος ἔβλαστεν ἄλλου S. Fr. 591; ἁπάσης νοῦν τε καὶ ἀνορέαν ἔξοχος ἡλικίας beyond all his contemporaries, IG 12.1021.

c. c. dat., αἶγας . . αἳ πᾶσι μέγ’ ἔξοχοι αἰπολίοισιν Od. 21.266, cf. 15.227; also ἐκπρεπἔ ἐν πολλοῖσι καὶ ἔξοχον ἡρώεσσιν Il. 2.483.

2. freq. in Hom. in pl., ἔξοχα as Adv. (cf. ὄχα), especially, above others, ὅς κ’ ἔ. μὲν φιλέῃσιν, ἔ. δ’ ἐχθαίρῃσιν Od. 15.70, cf. Il. 5.61; ἔ. λυγρὰ ἰδυῖα Od. 11.432; ἐμοὶ δόσαν ἔ. gave me as a high honour, 9.551: with Sup., ἔξοχ’ ἄριστοι beyond compare the best, Il. 9.638, Od. 4.629, al.

b. c. gen., ἔ. πάντων far above all, Il. 14.257, etc.; ἔξοχ’ ἑταίρων Pi. P. 5.26; ἔ. πλούτου above all wealth, Id. O. 1.2.—Regul. Adv. ‐χως ib.9.69, E. Ba. 1235, Lyc. 1195, Arist. Mu. 400b1, LXX 3 Ma. 5.31: Comp. ‐ώτερον Sor. 1.99: Sup. ‐ώτατα Pi. N. 4.92.