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Doric dialect aorist ἀποστράψαι[[ “SIG” 244 ii 16(Delph.)] Refs]; Ionic dialect aorist ἀποστρέψασκε[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.197, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἀπέστροφα[[ LXX.1Ki.6.21] LXX]:—passive and middle, future -στρέψομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.36, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.387c: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist -εστράφην [ᾰ[[], 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1272, etc.;] Refs 5th c.BC+] later -εστρεψάμην [[LXX.Hos.8.3, probably in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 776] LXX+5th c.BC+]: future -στρᾰφήσομαι[[ LXX.Num.25.4, +others] LXX]: perfect -έστραμμαι[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.166, etc.: _Ionic dialect_ _3rd.pers._ _plural_ ] Refs 5th c.BC+]pluperfect -εστράφατο[[ [prev. passage]] Refs]; -έστρεμμαι[[ “PSI” 4.392.11 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: —turn back: hence, either turn to flight, ὄφρ᾽.. Ἀχαιοὺς αὖτις ἀποστρέψῃσιν[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.62, etc., compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.94] Refs 8th c.BC+]; or turn back from flight, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.1] Refs 5th c.BC+]; send home again, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.97, 5.75] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥῆμα bring back word, [[ LXX.2Ki.22.9] LXX]; ἀποστρέψαντε πόδας καὶ χεῖρας having twisted back the hands and feet so as to bind them, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.173, 190,compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1154; τὸν ὦμον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 263; ἀποστρέφετε τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, ὦ Σκύθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 455; ἀ. τὸν αὐχένα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.188] Refs 8th c.BC+]; guide back again, ἀποστρέψαντες ἔβαν νέας[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.162] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἴχνι᾽ ἀποστρέψας having turned the steps of the oxen backwards so as to make it appear that they had gone the other way, [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 76] Refs]; turn away, avert, αὐχέν᾽ ἀποστρέψας[[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 858; ἀπέστρεψ᾽ ἔμπαλιν παρηΐδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1148; but τὸ πρόσωπον πρός τινα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 6] Refs 6th c.BC+]; bring back, recall, ἐξ ἰσθμοῦ[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.3] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φῶτας ἀπέστρεψεν Περσεφόνης θαλάμων [[[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus] 156.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 turn away or aside, divert, variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.80, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὕδατα cut off water from a besieged town, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 97.4; τὸν Κάϋστρον “SIG” 839.14 (from Ephesus)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὸν πόλεμον ἐς Μακεδονίαν[[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.1] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; avert a danger, an evil, etc., πῆμ᾽ ἀ. νόσου[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 850 (from Porson)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; prevent, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.136] Refs 1st c.AD+]; rebut, δίκην[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 776(see. above); ἀ. τύχην μὴ οὐ γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.15 codices; ἀ. εἰς τοὐναντίον τοὺς λόγους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 239d; τὰς πράξεις εἰς τοὺς ἀντιδίκους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1442b6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 ἀ. τινά τινος dissuade from, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 1.12; τινὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ λήμματος 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.23; πότων ἀ. τοὺς στομάχους 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 15. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II as if intransitive (i.e. ἑαυτόν, ἵππον, ναῦν, etc.), turn back, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.65; ἀ. ὀπίσω 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43; ἀ. πάλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1403. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 turn away or aside, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.87 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a river, [[ [prev. author] 4.52; τἀναντία ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B passive, to be turned back, ἀπεστράφθαι τοὺς ἐμβόλους, of ships, to have their beaks bent back, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.166] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀποστραφῆναι.. τὼ πόδε to have one's feet twisted, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 279; τρίχες ἀπεστραμμέναι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]closecurled, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 809b26. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.II middle and passive, turn oneself from or away, ἀπεστραμμέναι ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων[[ [prev. author] “HA” 611a6; ἀπεστραμμένοι ] Refs]back to back, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 145.2: especially, ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.II.1 turn one's face away from, abandon, with accusative, [[ 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 2, 4th c.AD: Sallustius Philosophus 3; ἐχθροῦ ἀξίωσιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 215; μή μ᾽ ἀποστραφῇς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1272; μή μ᾽ ἀποστρέφου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 801, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 683, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.36, “PSI” [same place]; τὸ θεῖον ῥᾳδίως ἀπεστράφης 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 159: also with _genitive_, ἄψορρος οἴκων τῶνδ᾽ ἀποστραφείς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 431: with _dative_, ἀστεφανώτοισι ἀπυστρέφονται 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 78: _absolutely_, μὴ πρὸς θεῶν.. ἀποστραφῇς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 326] Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἀπεστραμμένοι λόγοι hostile words, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.160; τὴν διάνοιαν ἀποστρέφεσθαι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]to be alienated, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.80. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.II.2 turn oneself about, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.25; ἅρματα ἀπεστραμμένα ὥσπερ εἰς φυγήν [prev. work] 6.2.17] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀποστραφῆναι λυγιζόμενος escape by wriggling, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 405c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 ἀποστραφῆναί τινος fall off from one, desert him, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.4.] Refs 5th c.BC+]
