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ἀπολύω

See also: απολύω

Ancient Greek

(4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /apolýo/

(10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /apolýo/

(15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /apolío/

Verb

ἀπολύω • ‎(apolúō)

to loose from
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.46
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.420
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.392
1. to set free from, release or relieve from
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.30
  - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.47
  - 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 365.A
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 64.E
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1.9.8
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.56
  1. (law) to acquit
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.88
    - 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.6.15
    - 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 571
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.174
    - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.95
    - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.128
    - 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 988–1000
    - 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 159.43
(sole use in the Iliad) to let go free on receipt of ransom
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.95
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.115
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.50
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.8.21
1. to let go, let alone, leave
  - 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, The Coan Praenotions 210
to discharge or disband an army, dismiss
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.5.21, (compare Plato, Phaedo 67.A)
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 1155
1. to divorce a wife
  - New Testament, Matth. 1.19
  - 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 12.18
2. to do away with, remove
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Leptines 47, (compare Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 115.20)
3. to discharge or pay a debt
  - 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 417.B
4. to dismiss a charge
  - 390 BCE – 322 BCE, Hyperides, In Defence of Euxenippus 47
  - 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 115.20
to sell
- 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 131.39
- 4th century BC, Isaeus, Collected Works 59.32
(middle voice) to redeem
- Opp. C. 3.128
1. to do away with calumnies against one
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.87
  - 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 37.B
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.75
  - 352 BCE, Demosthenes, For the Megalopolitans 2
  - 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 4
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.59
2. to acquit of
  - 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 119.12
  - 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 637.C
  1. to release from
    - 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 245.A
3. to depart
  - 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1314
(passive) to be released, let off
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.84
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.8
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.70
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.29
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 113.D
1. to be separated, get clear, part
  - 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.49
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 6.6.5
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 1.2.6
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Generation of Animals 3.3.7
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 2.1.41
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 4.8.7
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 4.9.2
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Fragments 300
  1. to depart
    - 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1268
2. (of a child) to be brought forth
  - 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 261.49
  - 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Collected Works 1013.E
3. to be annulled
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.3.3

Inflection

Present: ἀπολύω, ἀπολύομαι

number		singular			dual		plural
present		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
active	indicative	ἀπολύω	ἀπολύεις	ἀπολύει	ἀπολύετον	ἀπολύετον	ἀπολύομεν	ἀπολύετε	ἀπολύουσῐ(ν)
	subjunctive	ἀπολύω	ἀπολύῃς	ἀπολύῃ	ἀπολύητον	ἀπολύητον	ἀπολύωμεν	ἀπολύητε	ἀπολύωσῐ(ν)
	optative	ἀπολύοιμῐ	ἀπολύοις	ἀπολύοι	ἀπολύοιτον	ἀπολυοίτην	ἀπολύοιμεν	ἀπολύοιτε	ἀπολύοιεν
	imperative		ἀπολύε	ἀπολυέτω	ἀπολύετον	ἀπολυέτων		ἀπολύετε	ἀπολυόντων
middle/ passive	indicative	ἀπολύομαι	ἀπολύει/ ἀπολύῃ	ἀπολύεται	ἀπολύεσθον	ἀπολύεσθον	ἀπολυόμεθᾰ	ἀπολύεσθε	ἀπολύονται
	subjunctive	ἀπολύωμαι	ἀπολύῃ	ἀπολύηται	ἀπολύησθον	ἀπολύησθον	ἀπολυώμεθᾰ	ἀπολύησθε	ἀπολύωνται
	optative	ἀπολυοίμην	ἀπολύοιο	ἀπολύοιτο	ἀπολύοισθον	ἀπολυοίσθην	ἀπολυοίμεθᾰ	ἀπολύοισθε	ἀπολύοιντο
	imperative		ἀπολύου	ἀπολυέσθω	ἀπολύεσθον	ἀπολυέσθων		ἀπολύεσθε	ἀπολυέσθων
		active				middle/passive
infinitive		ἀπολύειν				ἀπολύεσθαι
participle		ἀπολύων , ἀπολύουσᾰ , ἀπολύον				ἀπολυόμενος , ἀπολυομένη , ἀπολυόμενον

Future: ἀπολύσω, ἀπολύσομαι

number		singular			dual		plural
future		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
active	indicative	ἀπολύσω	ἀπολύσεις	ἀπολύσει	ἀπολύσετον	ἀπολύσετον	ἀπολύσομεν	ἀπολύσετε	ἀπολύσουσῐ(ν)
active	optative	ἀπολύσοιμῐ	ἀπολύσοις	ἀπολύσοι	ἀπολύσοιτον	ἀπολυσοίτην	ἀπολύσοιμεν	ἀπολύσοιτε	ἀπολύσοιεν
middle	indicative	ἀπολύσομαι	ἀπολύσει/ ἀπολύσῃ	ἀπολύσεται	ἀπολύσεσθον	ἀπολύσεσθον	ἀπολυσόμεθᾰ	ἀπολύσεσθε	ἀπολύσονται
middle	optative	ἀπολυσοίμην	ἀπολύσοιο	ἀπολύσοιτο	ἀπολύσοισθον	ἀπολυσοίσθην	ἀπολυσοίμεθᾰ	ἀπολύσοισθε	ἀπολύσοιντο
		active				middle
infinitive		ἀπολύσειν				ἀπολύσεσθαι
participle		ἀπολύσων , ἀπολύσουσᾰ , ἀπολύσον				ἀπολυσόμενος , ἀπολυσομένη , ἀπολυσόμενον

Synonyms

(to let go free on receipt of ransom): ἀπολυτρόω ‎(apolutróō)

References

ἀπολύω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀπολύω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀπολύω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
«ἀπολύω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
«ἀπολύω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“G630”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
«ἀπολύω» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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ἀπολύω

ἀπολύω

Ancient Greek

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