ἐκκρίνειν

From LSJ

Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master

Source

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also ἐκκρίνω): choose, select, pick out, single out

Lexicon Thucydideum

seligere, to select, choose, 6.96.3,
PASS. 6.31.3.