A.“-στερηθήσομαι” Lys.12.70, v.l. in D.1.22; also “-στερήσομαι” E.HF137(lyr.), Th.6.91, D.24.210; “ἀποστεροῦμαι” And.1.149: pf. ἀπεστέρημαι, etc.:—rob, despoil, defraud one of a thing, c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, “χρημάτων ἀ. τινά” Hdt.5.92.“έ; τὸν πατέρα τῆς τυραννίδος” Ar.Av.1605; “τῆς ψυχῆς” Antipho4.1.6: c. acc. pers. et rei, “μή μ᾽ ἀποστερήσῃς ἡδονάν” S.El.1276(lyr.), cf. Antipho 3.3.2, X.An.7.6.9, Is.8.43, etc.: abs., commit fraud, Ar.Nu.487; ἀπεστερηκὼς ὑπ᾽ ἀνάγκης being constrained to become a defaulter, Pl.Phdr.241b; “συνέστιον ὧν ἔκγονον ἢ ἀδελφὸν ἀπεστέρηκε γίγνεσθαι” Id.Lg.868d:—Pass., to be robbed or deprived of, c. gen., “Ἑλλάδος ἀπεστερημένος” Hdt.3.130; “σοῦ τ᾽ ἀπεστερημένη καὶ πατρός” S.El.813; “ἡδονῶν” Ar.Nu.1072; “ἁπάντων ἂν ἀπεστερήμην” D.21.106: c. acc., “ἵππους ἀπεστέρηνται” X.Cyr.6.1.12, etc.: abs., εἰ δ᾽ ἀπεστερήμεθα if we have been frustrated, S.Aj. 782.
2. ἀ. ἑαυτόν τινος detach, withdraw oneself from a person or thing, “τῶν [ἀγαλμάτων] . . ἀπεστέρησ᾽ ἐμαυτόν” Id.OT1381; “οὐκ ἀποστερῶν γε τῶν ἐς τὴν πόλιν ἑαυτὸν οὐδενός” Antipho 5.78; “ἄλλου ἑαυτὸν ἀ.” Th.1.40; “ἀ. ἑαυτὸν τοῦ φρονεῖν” Crobyl.3; ἐκείνους . . ἀ. μὴ ἂν . . ἀποτειχίσαι deprive them of the power of walling off, Th.7.6:—reversely, “ἀ. τὸν ἔλεον ἑαυτοῦ” Plu.Aem.26, cf.Dem.4.
4. c. acc. rei only, filch away, S.Ph.931; withhold, A.Pr. 777, S.OT323, Ar.Nu.1305; refuse payment of a debt, D.21.44, etc.; refuse to give up, “παρακατ αθήκην” Arist.Rh.1383b21; Ζεὺς ἀποστεροίη γάμον may he avertit, A.Supp.1063(lyr.).
