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ἐξα^μείβω ,
A.exchange, alter, σαρκὸς ἐξαμείψασαι τρόμον having put away fear from one, E.Ba.607 (troch.); “ἄλλην ἄλλοτε χρόαν” Plu.2.590c:—Med., exchange places with, i. e. take the place of, ἔργου δ᾽ ἔργον ἐξημείβετο one labour came hard upon another, E.Hel.1533.
2. intr. in Act., “φόνῳ φόνος ἐξαμείβων” Id.Or.816 (lyr.).
II. of Place, change one for another, pass over, c. acc., A.Pers.130 (lyr.), E.Ph. 131; so “ἐξαμείψας Μακεδονίαν εἰς Θετταλίαν ἀφίκετο” X.Ages.2.2: abs., withdraw, depart, E.Or.272:—so in Med., pass, “διά τινος” Id.Fr.781.45; “τηνεῖ πρὸς τὴν σχοῖνον ἐξαμείβεο” APl.4.255.
III. Med., requite, repay, “τινὰ ποιναῖς” A.Pr.225 (v.l. ἀντημείψατο).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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