Ancient Greek

Verb

ἀποκρῑ́νω • ‎(apokrī́nō)

1. to separate, set apart
   • Pherecrates, Deserters 1
   • Claudius Aelianus, Various History 12.8
   • Plato, The Statesman 302.C
   • Homer, Iliad 5.12
   • Archilochus, Collected Works 82
   • Herodotus, Histories 1.60
   • Herodotus, Histories 2.36
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.72
   • Hippocrates, Prognostics 45
   • Aristotle, History of Animals 6.3.3
   • Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 13
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49
   1. to distinguish
      • Herodotus, Histories 1.194
      • Plato, The Republic 407.C
2. to choose
   • Herodotus, Histories 6.130, (compare Plato, Laws 946.A)
   • Sophocles, Oedipus the King 640
3. to reject on inquiry
   • Plato, Laws 751.D
   • Plato, Laws 936.A
   • Aristotle, Politics 5.12.2
   • Plato, Laws 966.D
4. (in middle voice) to give answer, reply
   • Euripides, The Bacchae 1272
   • Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1354
   • Aristophanes, The Clouds 1245
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.42
   • Plato, Hippias Major 287.A
   • Aristophanes, The Wasps 964
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.90
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.61, (compare Plato, Crito 49.A)
   • Aristophanes, Plutus 17
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.71
   • Plato, Laws 658.C
   • Plato, Gorgias 453.D, (compare Plato, Meno ,

     Plato, Euthydemus

     )
   1. to answer charges, defend oneself
      • Aristophanes, The Acharnians 632
      • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 143.30, (compare 119.32)
   2. to meet events, circumstances
      • Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 2.16.2
   3. (passive) to be given as an answer (+ dative of agent)
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 187.B

        κινδυνεύει δὲ ἡ ἀληθὴς δόξα ἐπιστήμη εἶναι, καί μοι τοῦτο ἀποκεκρίσθω.

        But I venture to assert that knowledge is true opinion, and let that be my answer.

Inflection

References

• ἀποκρίνω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀποκρίνω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀποκρίνω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀποκρίνω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀποκρίνω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀποκρίνω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)