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ἀφίστημι:
causal in present and imperfect, in future ἀποστήσω, and aorist I ἀπέστησα, as also in aorist I middle (see. below):—put away, remove, keep out of the way, τὸ ἀσθενέστατον τοῦ στρατεύματος[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.23; ἄχος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 416 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of diseases, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.96, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.846; τὰ συγκείμενα ἀ. ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 282b; ἀ. τῆς ἐλάας τὸν φλοιόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.3.2; ἀ. τινὰ λόγου ] Refs 5th c.BC+]hinder from.., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 912] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τὰς τῶν πολεμίων ἐπιβουλάς frustrate them, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τὸν ἄρχοντα depose him, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.45:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —aorist middle, Ἀργείων δόρυ πυλῶν ἀπεστήσασθε remoued it from your own gates, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ph.1087:—in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.23 ἀποστήσαντες, ={ἀποστάντες}] Refs 5th c.BC+], having retired.
__2 cause to revolt, of allies, [[ [prev. author] 8.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 238, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.81; τινὰ ἀπό τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.76, 154, etc.; τινά τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.22. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 in geometrical constructions, cut off, [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 6.7. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __II weigh out, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.20; ἀποστησάτωσαν τὰ χρυσία “IG” 7.303.19 (from Oropus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; pay, δραχμὰς ή ἀργυρίου[[ “UPZ” 93.2 (2nd c.BC): also in ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]aorist I middle, μὴ.. ἀποστήσωνται Ἀχαιοὶ χρεῖος lest they weigh out (i. e. pay in full) the debt, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.745, compare “IG” 12.91.20, +others:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —in strict sense of middle, ἀποστήσασθαι τὸν χαλκόν to have the brass weighed out to one, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 49.52.— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has it _transitive_ only in [prev. cited] ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__III middle, give a final decision (or break up, dismiss the assembly), ῥήτρα cited in [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 6. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B intransitive, in passive, as also in aorist 2 ἀπέστην, imperative ἀπόστηθι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 627, ἀπόστα 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 375: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect ἀφέστηκα in present sense, syncopated. in plural ἀφέστᾰμεν, -στᾰτε, -στᾶσι, as in infinitive ἀφεστάναι, participle ἀφεστώς, -ῶσα, -ός or -ώς: pluperfect ἀφεστήκειν, Attic dialect -κη[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 208e] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future middle ἀποστήσομαι[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1054, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.64, etc. (while ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist I middle is causal (see. above)): for future ἀφεστήξω see entry .:—stand away or aloof from, keep far from, ὅσσον δὲ τροχοῦ ἵππος ἀφίσταται[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.517; οὐ μέν κ᾽ ἄλλη γ᾽ ὧδε γυνὴ.. ἀνδρὸς ἀφεσταίη 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.101; ἀποστᾶσ᾽ ἐκποδών 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1023; ἐς ἄλλο σχῆμ᾽ ἀ. βίου [prev. author] “Med.” 1039; ἀποσταθῶμεν πράγματος τελουμένου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 872] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὡς γραφεὺς (or βραβεὺς) ἀποσταθείς[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 807; μακρὰν τόποις καὶ χρόνοις ἀ. 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.22: hence in various relations, ἀφεστάναι φρενῶν] Refs 5th c.BC+] lose one's wits, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 865; φύσεος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1457 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐδενὸς ἀποστήσονται ὅσα ἂν δίκαια λέγητε depart from, object to right proposals, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.118; ἀ. φόνου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1544] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀρχῆς to be deposed from office, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 928d] Refs 5th c.BC+]; simply, resign, [[ “SIG” 527.105 (Crete, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἀ. τῶν πραγμάτων, τῆς πολιτείας, etc., withdraw from business, politics, have done with it, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 10.1, 18.308, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔργων ἢ πόνων ἢ κινδύνων shun them, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.83, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.19, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὧν εἷλεν ἀποστάς giving up all claim to what he had won (at law), [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.181; τῶν αὑτῆς [prev. author] 19.147, compare 35.4; ἀφίστασθαι τῶν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ [prev. work]44; οὐδενὸς τῶν ἀνηκόντων τῇ πόλει “Inscription Magn.” 53.65] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὴν πολιτείαν.. τὴν ἀφεστηκυῖαν τοῦ μέσου πλεῖον further removed from.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296b8; ἀποστὰς τῶν πατρῴων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 12.3] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἐκ Σικελίας withdraw from the island, give up the expedition, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.28] Refs 5th c.BC+]; retire, ἐς Ἰθώμην[[ [prev. author] 1.101] Refs]: rarely c.accusative, avoid, shrink from, τὸν ἥλιον[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.3; τὸν πόλεμον [prev. author] “An.” 2.5.7; τινάς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1006; πυγμήν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 20 (probably conjecture). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2 in Prose, ἀ. ἀπό τινος revolt from.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95, 130, etc.; τινός [prev. author] 2.113; οὐκ ἀποστήσομαι ἀπὸ τοῦ δήμου Ἀθηναίων “IG” 12.39.21; but Ἀθηναίων τοῦ πλήθους [prev. work]10.22; also ἀ. εἴς or πρός τινας, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.30, 162, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.7; ἐς δημοκρατίαν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.90] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, revolt, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.102, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπό τινος at his instigation, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.35 (ἀπό codices). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.3 ἀ. τινί make way for another, give way to him, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1054, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.37. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.4 with genitive, shrink from, τῶν κινδύνων[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.29] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also with infinitive, shrink from doing, ἀπέστην τοῦτ᾽ ἐρωτῆσαι σαφῶς[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 536. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.5 absolutely, stand aloof, recoil from fear, horror, etc., τίπτε καταπτώσσοντες ἀφέστατ;[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.340; πολλὸν ἀφεσταότες 17.375; παλίνορσος ἀπέστη 3.33, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.52, “P.” 4.145; ἐγὼ οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 169b, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.45, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; desist, μὴ νῦν -ώμεθα[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 960e; δοῦλος ἀφεστώς ] Refs 5th c.BC+]a runaway, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 23.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.6 in Medicine texts, ἀφίσταται, ={ἀπόστασις γίγνεται, εἰς ἄρθρα} [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.74] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ὀστέον exfoliates, [[[prev. work] 6.45] Refs]; also ἀ. ἀπὸ τῶν ὀστῶν[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 84a; τὸ δέρμα ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.5] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, project, stand out, ὦτα ἀφεστηκότα[[ “PLond.” 3.1209.12 (1st c.BC). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__B.6.b to be separated by the formation of an abscess, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.116, +others] Refs 2nd c.AD+] (also in active, τὸ πύον ἀφίστησι 7.715).
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