ἐκλέγειν
From LSJ
ἅτε γὰρ ἐννάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσας βαθύν σκευᾶς ἑτέρας, ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελλὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας → for just as when the rest of the tackle labors in the depths of the sea, like a cork I shall go undipped over the surface of the brine | as when the other part of the tackle is laboring deep in the sea, I go unsoaked like a cork above the surface of the sea
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also ἐκλέγω): choose, requisition, select, pick out
Lexicon Thucydideum
eligere, to choose out, 4.59.2,
MED. 4.74.3, 6.58.2,
exigere, colligere, to drive out, gather together (vectigalia revenues), 8.44.4.
