ἐκλέγειν
From LSJ
ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful
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.
