ἐκπλέω,
I fut. - πλεύσομαι: pf. - πέπλευκα IG 2.793a7: Ion. ἐκπλώω, aor. - έπλωσα: pf. πέπλωκα Lyc. 1084: -
1. sail out or away, τοῦ Πόντου Hdt. 6.5; ἔξω τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου Id. 5.103; τῆσδ’ ἐ. χθονός S. Ph. 1375; ἐκ τῆσδε γῆς ib. 577; ἐ. ἐς ἀποικίην Hdt. 6.22; κατ’ Εὐρώπης ζήτησιν, κατὰ ληΐην, Id. 2.44, 152; ἐπί τινα against.., Th. 1.37; of fish, swim out, ἀγεληδὸν ἐ. ἐς θάλασσαν Hdt. 2.93.
2. metaph., ἐκπλεῖν τῶν φρενῶν go out of one’s mind, lose one’s senses, Id. 3.155, Ael. Fr. 240.
II rarely c. acc. loci, sail out past, τὸ ἔθνος τῶν Ἰχθυοφάγων Arr. Ind. 29.7, cf. Lyc. 1084, A.R. 2.645.
2. c. acc. cogn., ἐ. τὸν ὕστερον ἔκπλουν D. 49.6.
III trans., ἐ. ἐς τὴν εὐρυχωρίαν τὰς τῶν πολεμίων ναῦς outsail them into the open sea, Th. 8.102 (s.v.l.).
G1602 — ἐκπλέω
: (imperfect ἐξεπλεον); 1 aorist ἐξέπλευσα; to sail from sail away, depart by ship: ἀπό with the genitive of place, [Act 20:6]; εἰς with the accusative of place, [Act 15:39]; [Act 18:18]. (Sophocles, Herodotus, Thucydides, others.)