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Aeolic dialect, Thess., [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 5th c.AD: Cypria ἀπύ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 44, compare 78, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 33, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 28.16, “IG” 12(2).6.45 (Mytil.), ἀπυδόμεναι [prev. work]9(2).594 (from Larissa), 5(2).6 (from Tegea)] Refs 7th c.BC+], etc.:—preposition usually with Gen. but see below [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (Cf. Sanskrit
__A ápa, Latin ab, Umbr. ap-ehtre 'ab extra', Gothic af, O[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] af, cef, of, etc.) Orig. sense, from. [ᾰπο?~X: where ἀπο ¯ is found in Epic dialect before see or liquids (as ἀπὸ ἕθεν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.62, ἀπὸ νευρῆς 11.664, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 409) ἀπαί] Refs 8th c.BC+] was sometimes written in later texts,[[compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 625.11:] Refs] — ᾱ for the sake of meter in _Epic dialect_ compounds, such as ἀπονέεσθαι.]
__A.I OF PLACE, the earliest, and in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus the prevailing sense: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.I.1 of Motion, from, away from, ἐσσεύοντο νεῶν ἄπο καὶ κλισιάων[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.208] Refs 8th c.BC+]; pleonastic, ἀ. Τροίηθεν[[ [prev. work] 24.492; ἀπ᾽ οὐρανόθεν 8.365 (later with _adverbs_, ἀπὸ ἔμπροσθεν LXX.Eccl.1.10, etc.); strengthened, ἐκτὸς ἀ. κλισιης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.151] LXX+8th c.BC+]; also ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος νέος ὤλεο, implying departure from life, [[[prev. work] 24.725] Refs]; opposed to ἐξ, of relatively superficial motion, λαμβάνομεν οὔτε ἐκ τῆς γῆς οὐδέν, οὔτ᾽ ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκιῶν[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.7.2] Refs 5th c.BC+]; similarly of the cause or ground, ἐξ ὧν προηγώνισθε καὶ ἀφ᾽ ὧν εἰκάζω[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.126] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— frequently of warriors fighting from chariots, etc., οἱ μὲν ἀφ᾽ ἵππων, οἱ δ᾽ ἀ. νηῶν.. μάχοντο[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.386; ἀφ᾽ ἵππων μάρνασθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.49; so ἡ μάχη ἦν ἀφ᾽ ἵππων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.79] Refs 8th c.BC+]; λαμπὰς ἔσται ἀφ᾽ ἵππων on horseback, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 328a; ἀφ᾽ ἵππου θηρεύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.7; ἀ. νεῶν πεζομαχεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.62; ἐν ταῖς ναυσὶν αἰρόμενος τοὺς ἱστοὺς ἀ. τούτων ἐσκοπεῖτο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.29] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀμμάτων ἄπο.. κατέσταζον γένυν, of tears, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 240: joined with ἐκ, ἐκ Κορίνθου ἀ. τοῦ στρατοπέδου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 142a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __A.I.2 of Position, away from, far from, μένων ἀ. ἧς ἀλόχοιο[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.292 (compare ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς εἶναι] Refs 8th c.BC+] to live apart from a man or husband, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “C. Gracchus” 4); κεκρυμμένος ἀπ᾽ ἄλλων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.110; μοῦνος ἀπ᾽ ἄλλων “hymnus ad Mercurium” 193] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν, ἀπ᾽ οὔατος, far from sight or hearing, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.53, 18.272, compare 22.454; ἀ. θαλάσσης ᾠκίσθησαν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.7, compare 46; αὐλίζεσθαι ἀ. τῶν ὅπλων [prev. author] 6.64; ἀπ᾽ οἴκου εἶναι [prev. author] 1.99] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σπεύδειν ἀ. ῥυτῆρος far from, i.e. without using the rein, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 900; in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus frequently strengthened, τῆλε ἀ..., νόσφιν ἀ..., 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.880, 5.322] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in measurement of distances, ὅσον ιέ στάδια ἀ. Φυλῆς[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.4, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but later the numeral follows ἀ., πηγὰς ἔχων ἀ. μ σταδίων τῆς θαλάσσης[[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.56; ἀ. σταδίων κ τῆς πόλεως 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 4] Refs 1st c.BC+]; κατεστρατοπέδευσεν ἀ. ν σταδίων fifty stades away, [[ [prev. author] “Oth.” 11, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 17.17. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.I.3 of the mind, ἀ. θυμοῦ away from, i. e. alien from, my heart, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.562; ἀ. δόξης 10.324; οὐ.. ἀ. σκοποῦ οὐδ᾽ ἀ. δόξης 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.344; ἀ. τοῦ ἀνθρωπείου τρόπου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.76] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν ἀ. τρόπου not without reason, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 470b] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἀ. σκοποῦ, καιροῦ, [[ [prev. author] “Tht.” 179c, 187e; οὐκ ἀ. γνώμης 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 389; οὐκ ἀ. τοῦ πράγματος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.6; μάλα πολλὸν ἀπ᾽ ἐλπίδος ἔπλετο 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.863. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.4 in pregnant sense, with Verbs of rest, previous motion being implied (compare ἐκ), ἀνὰ δ᾽ ἐβόασεν.. ἀ. πέτρας σταθείς[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 523] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ.τῆς ἐμῆς κεφαλῆς τὴν [ἐκείνου] κεφαλὴν ἀναδήσω, i. e. taking the chaplet off my head, and placing it on his, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 212e: with Verbs of hanging, where ἐκ] Refs 5th c.BC+] is more common, ἁψαμένη βρόχον ἀ. μελάθρου[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.278. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.I.5 with the Article, where the sense of motion often disappears, οἱ ἀ. τῶν οἰκιῶν φεύγουσιν, i.e. οἱ ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις φεύγουσιν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.23] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀ. τῶν πύργων.. ἐπαρήξουσι[[ [prev. work] 6.4.18; αἴρειν τὰ ἀ. τῆς γῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 410b] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ ἵπποι αἱ ἀ. τοῦ ἅρματος variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.8; ὁ Ἀθηναῖος ὁ ἀ. τοῦ στρατεύματος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.19; τὸν ἀ. γραμμᾶς κινεῖ λίθον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.18. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.I.6 partitive, λαχὼν ἀ. ληΐδος αἶσαν part taken from the booty, a share of it, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.40; αἴρεσθαι ἀ. τῶν καλπίδων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 539; ἀ. ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι παίδων εἷς μοῦνος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.27; ὀλίγοι ἀ. πολλῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.87, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 1023. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.I.7 in Mathematics texts, of figures described upon a base, κῶνον ἀναγράφειν ἀ. κύκλου[[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 1.19, etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὸ ἀ. τῆς AB τετράγωνον the square on AB, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 1.47, compare 48] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; εἴδεα ἀ... [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἑλίκων” 10, 11. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__A.I.8 ἀ. ἀνθρώπου ἕως γυναικός man and woman, [[ LXX.1Esd.9.40] LXX]; ἀ. ἀρσενικοῦ ἕως θηλυκοῦ [prev. work] LXX.Num.5.3.
__A.I.9 from being, instead of, ἀθανάταν ἀ. θνατᾶς.. ἐποίησας Βερενίκαν[[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.106. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__A.I.10 privative, free from, without, ἀ. πάσης ἀκαθαρσίας[[ “PLips.” 16.19 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀ. ζημίας[[ “PTeb” 420.4 (3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__A.II OF TIME, from, after, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.54 ἀ. δείπνου θωρήσσοντο] Refs 8th c.BC+] rising up from, i.e. after,[[compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.133] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. δείπνου εἶναι or γενέσθαι, [[ [prev. author] 1.126, 2.78, 5.18, +others; ἀ. τοῦ σιτίου πίνειν 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὑγιεινῆς” 5; ἀ. τῶν σίτων διαπονεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 5.8] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in narrative, τὸ ἀ. τούτου or το̄δε, from this point onwards, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4, 2.99; ἀ. τούτου τοῦ χρόνου [prev. author] 1.82, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.5.8; τὸ ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνου 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 25; ἡμέρῃ δεκάτῃ ἀφ᾽ ἧς.. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14, etc.; δευτέρῃ ἡμέρῃ ἀ. τῆς ἐμπρήσιος [prev. author] 8.55, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.7.18, etc.; ἀφ᾽ οὗ χρόνου [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.2.13] Refs 5th c.BC+]; more often ἀπ᾽ or ἀφ᾽ οὗ, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.44, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18, etc.; ἀφ᾽ οὗπερ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 177; ἀφ᾽ ἧς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 15] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐθὺς ἀ. παλαιοῦ, ἀ. τοῦ πάνυ ἀρχαίου, of olden time, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.2, 2.15; ἀπ᾽ ἀρχᾶς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.25, etc.; ἀ. γενεᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.8] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀφ᾽ ἑσπέρας from the beginning of evening, i.e. at eventide, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.29] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. πρώτου ὕπνου[[ [prev. work] 43; ἀ. μέσων νυκτῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 218] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπ᾽ ἀγροῦ fresh from field-work, [[ NT.Mark.15.21, compare 7.4; ἀ. νουμηνίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.23] NT+5th c.BC+]; χρονίζειν ἀ. τοῦ καιροῦ tarry beyond the time, [[ LXX.2Ki.20.5] LXX]; ἀ. τέλους ἐννέα μηνῶν at the end of..,[[ [prev. work] 24.8; γενόμενος ἀ. τῆς ἀρχῆς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Caesar” 5: hence ἀ. ἀγωνοθετῶν an εχ-ἀγωνοθέτης, “IG” 3.398; ἀ. λογιστῶν “POxy.” 1103.3 (4th c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; οἱ ἀ. ὑπατείας, = consulares, [[ 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 7.1.9, etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but ἀ. τινος the freedman of.., [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 5(2).50.59(Tegea, 2nd c.AD), compare[prev. work]5(1).1391 (from Andania), 1473. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.III OF ORIGIN, CAUSE, etc.:
__A.III.1 of that from which one is born, οὐ γὰρ ἀ. δρυός ἐσσι οὐδ᾽ ἀ. πέτρης not sprung from oak or rock, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.163; γίγνονται δ᾽ ἄρα ταί γ᾽ ἔκ τε κρηνέων ἀ. τ᾽ ἀλσέων 10.350, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 415, “OC” 571, etc.: sometimes ἀπό denotes remote, and ἐκ] Refs 8th c.BC+] immediate, descent, τοὺς μὲν ἀ. θεῶν, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν θεῶν γεγονότας[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.81, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.150; πέμπτη ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ γέννα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 853] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τρίτος ἀ. Διός third in descent from Zeus, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 391c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀ. γένους τινός his descendants, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 32; Περσέως ἀφ᾽ αἵματος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 509] Refs 5th c.BC+]: of the place one springs from, ἵπποι.. ποταμοῦ ἄπο Σελλήεντος[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.839. compare 849; Ἡρακλεῖδαι οἱ ἀ. Σπάρτης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.114, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.89, etc.; τοὺς ἀ. Φρυγίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.5, etc.:hence, ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.III.1.b metaphorically of things, Χαρίτων ἄπο κάλλος ἔχουσαι[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.18] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θεῶν ἄπο μήδεα εἰδώς[[ [prev. work] 12; γάλα ἀ. βοός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 611; μῆνις ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν [prev. author] “Eu.” 314; ἡ ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν τιμωρία 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.69] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ἀ. τῶν πολεμίων φόβος fear inspired by the enemy, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.53. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.III.1.c of persons, οἱ ἀ. τῆς χώρας, τῆς πόλεως, country folk, townsfolk, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.6.8, 5.70.8] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; and so of connexion with the founder or leader of a sect, οἱ ἀ. Πυθαγόρου[[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 14; οἱ ἀ. Πλάτωνος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Brutus” 2] Refs 1st c.AD+]; οἱ ἀ. τοῦ περιπάτου, ἀ. τῆς Στοᾶς, etc., [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cont.” 6; generally οἱ ἀ. φιλοσοφίας καὶ λόγων philosophers and learned men, [prev. passage]; οἱ ἀ. σκηνῆς καὶ θεάτρου] Refs 2nd c.AD+] stage players, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 2; οἱ ἀ. τῆς βουλῆς [prev. author] “Caes.” 10, etc.] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ὁ ἀφ᾽ ἑστίας παῖς, see at {ἑστί; ἀπ᾽ ἐξωμίδος} with only an ἐξωμίς, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.153. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.III.2 of the material from or of which a thing is made, εἵματα ἀ. ξύλου πεποιημένα[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.65; ἀπ᾽ ὄμφακος τεύχειν οἶνον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 970, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 704; ὅσσα ἀ. γλυκερῶ μέλιτος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.117; ἔνδυμα ἀ. τριχῶν καμήλου NT.Matt.3.4: hence στέφανος ἀ. ταλάντων ἑξήκοντα] NT+5th c.BC+] of or weighing [[ 60 talents, Canon Laws texts cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.92, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 24.1.7, “IG” 2.555.10, +others: hence of value, θύεν αἶγα ἀ. δραχμᾶν εἴκοσι “GDI” 3707 (from Cos)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κρᾶσις ἀ. τε τῆς ἡδονῆς συγκεκραμένη καὶ ἀ. τῆς λύπης[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59a] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so, by an extension of this use, εἰδεχθής τις ἀ. τοῦ προσώπου ugly of countenance, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 28.4; θῆλυν ἀ. χροιῆς 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.49; σεμνὸς ἀ. τοῦ σχήματος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 10.8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.III.3 of the instrument from or by which a thing is done, τοὺς.. πέφνεν ἀπ᾽ ἀργυρέοιο βιοῖο by arrow shot from silver bow, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.605; τόξου ἄπο κρατεροῦ ὀλέκοντα φάλαγγας 8.279; ἐμῆς ἀπὸ χειρός 10.371, 11.675; so ἀ. χειρὸς ἐργάζεσθαι μεγάλα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 29] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γυμνάζεσθαι ἀ. σκελῶν, χειρῶν, τραχήλου, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 5.9; μάχεσθαι ἀ. ἄκοντος 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.7; ἡ ἀ. τοῦ ξίφους μάχη 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.29; βάπτειν τὸν δάκτυλον ἀ. τοῦ αἵματος LXX.Lev.4.7. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__A.III.4 of the person from whom an act comes, i.e. by whom it is done, οὐδὲν μέγα ἔργον ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.14; ζήτησιν ἀ. σφέων γενέσθαι [prev. author] 2.54; ἐπράχθη οὐδὲν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν ἔργον ἀξιόλογον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.17, compare 6.61; ἀ. τινος ὄνασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 528a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so τἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ, τἀπὸ σοῦ, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 74, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1628; τὰ ἀ. τῶν Ἀθηναίων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.127] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in later Greek frequently of the direct agent, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.34.8, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 5.4.12, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 9.12, NT.Luke.9.22, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 20.8.10, etc.] NT+2nd c.BC+]; in codices this may sometimes be due to confusion with ὑπό, but[[compare “PMag.Par.” 1.256, “BGU” 1185.26(Aug.), “SIG” 820.8(Ephesus, 1st c.AD), etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.III.5 of the source from which life, power, etc., are sustained, ζῆν ἀπ᾽ ὕλης ἀγρίης[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.203] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. κτήνεων καὶ ἰχθύων[[ [prev. work] 216; ἀ. πολέμου [prev. author] 5.6; ἀπ᾽ ἐλαχίστων χρημάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.14; ἀ. τῆς ἀγορᾶς [prev. author] “An.” 6.1.1; τρέφειν τὸ ναυτικὸν ἀ. τῶν νήσων [prev. author] “HG” 4.8.9, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.99; ἀ. τῶν κοινῶν πλουτεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 569, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.124; ἀ. μικρῶν εὔνους.. γεγένησαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 788, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.102; ἀφ᾽ ὥρας ἐργάζεσθαι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]quaestum corpore facere, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 14. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__A.III.6 of the cause, means, or occasion from, by, or because of which a thing is done, ἀ. τούτου κριοπρόσωπον τὤγαλμα τοῦ Διὸς ποιεῦσι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.42] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τινος ἐπαινεῖσθαι, θαυμάζεσθαι, ὠφελεῖσθαι, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.25, 6.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.1.2; ἀ. τῶν ξυμφορῶν διαβάλλεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.17; τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν ἔχειν ἀ. τινος [prev. author] 1.46; ἀ. λῃστείας τὸν βίον ἔχειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.9; ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων κρίνειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.27] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῦ πάθους in consequence of.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.30; βλάπτειν τινὰ ἀ. τινος [prev. author] 7.29; κατασκευάσαντα τὸ πλοῖον ἀφ᾽ ὧν ὑπελάμβανε σωθήσεσθαι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.194] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τρόπαιον ἀ. τινος εἱστήκει on occasion of his defeat, [[ [prev. author] 19.320] Refs]; τλήμων οὖσ᾽ ἀπ᾽ εὐτόλμου φρενός[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1302, compare 1643] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀ. δικαιοσύνης by reason of it (variant for{ὑπό}), [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.164] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τῶν αὐτῶν λημμάτων on the same scale of profits, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.34, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; for ὅσον ἀ. βοῆς ἕνεκα, see at {ἕνεκα}: hence in half adverbial usages, ἀ. σπουδῆς in earnest, eagerly, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.359] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῦἴσου, ἀ. τῆς ἴσης, or ἀπ᾽ ἴσης, equally, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.99, 15, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.6, etc.; ἀπ᾽ ὀρθῆς καὶ δικαίας τῆς ψυχῆς [prev. author] 18.298; ἀ. ἀντιπάλου παρασκευῆς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91; ἀ. τοῦ προφανοῦς openly, [prev. work] 35] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῦ εὐθέος straightforwardly, [[ [prev. author] 3.43] Refs]; ἀ. τοῦ αὐτομάτου of free-will, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 323c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. γλώσσης by word of mouth, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.123] Refs 5th c.BC+] (but also, from hearsay, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 813); ἀ. στόματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 142d] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπ᾽ ὄψεως at sight, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.19] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. χειρὸς λογίζεσθαι on your fingers, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 656; πεύθομαι δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὀμμάτων νόστον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 988] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀμμάτων ἄπο in the public gaze, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 216; ἀ. τοῦ κυάμου ἄρχοντας καθίστασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.9; ἡ βουλὴ ἡ ἀ. τοῦ κυάμου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.66, compare “IG” 1.9; τοὺς ἀ. τοῦ κυάμου δισχιλίους ἄνδρας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 24.3] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τριηράρχους αἱρεῖσθαι ἀ. τῆς οὐσίας Canon Laws texts cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.106] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ from oneself, on one's own account, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.6, etc.; ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ γνώμης [prev. author] 4.68] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. συνθήματος, ἀ. παραγγέλματος, by agreement, by word of command, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.74, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.99] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. σάλπιγγος by sound of trumpet, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 3.12 (assuming variant)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπίτροπος ἀ. τῶν λόγων, = Latin procurator a rationibus, Ann.epigram.[[ 1913.143a (Ephesus, 2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.III.7 of the object spoken of, τὰ ἀ. τῆς νήσου οἰκότα ἐστί the things told from or of the island.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.195, compare 54, 7.195; νόμος κείμενος ἀ. τῶν τεχνῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 762. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B in [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus, 5th c.AD: Cypria, ἀπύ takes _dative_, ἀπὺ τᾷ [ἁμέρᾳ] “IG” 5(2).6 (from Tegea)] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ἀπὺ τᾷ ζᾷ[[ “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.8 H. (from Idalion). ] Refs]
__B.2 in later Greek ἀπό is found with accusative, [[ “PLond.” 1.124.30 (4th-5th c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__C in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] frequent with Verbs in tmesi, as [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.214, etc., and sometimes in Prose, as 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.89. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__D IN COMPOSITION (joined with other words),
__D.1 asunder, as ἀποκόπτω, ἀπολύω, ἀποτέμνω: and hence, away, off, as ἀποβάλλω, ἀποβαίν; denoting, remoual of an accusation, as ἀπολογέομαι, ἀποψηφίζομαι.
__D.2 finishing off, completing, ἀπεργάζομαι, ἀπανδρόω, ἀπανθρωπίζω, ἀπογλαυκόω.
__D.3 ceasing from, leaving off, as ἀπαλγέω, ἀποκηδεύω, ἀπολοφύρομαι, ἀποζέω, ἀπανθίζω, ἀφυβρίζω.
__D.4 back again, as ἀποδίδωμι, ἀπολαμβάνω, ἀπόπλους: also, in full, or what is one's own, as ἀπέχω, ἀπολαμβάνω: frequently it only strengthens the sense of the simple.
__D.5 by way of abuse, as in ἀποκαλέω.
__D.6 almost ={ἀ-} privative; sometimes with Verbs, as ἀπαυδάω, ἀπαγορεύ; more frequently with Adjectives, as ἀποχρήματος, ἀπότιμος, ἀπόσιτος, ἀπόφονος.
__E ἄπο, by anastrophe for ἀπό, when it follows its Noun, as ὀμμάτων ἄπο[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1231, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; never in Prose.
__E.2 ἄπο for ἄπεστι, [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 1.20, 5th c.BC: Timocreon Lyricus 9.] Refs 7th c.BC+]
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