A.“ἀπολελύσομαι” X.Cyr. 6.2.37:—loose from, “ἱμάντα θοῶς ἀπέλυσε κορώνης” Od.21.46; ὄφρ᾽ ἀπὸ τοίχους λῦσε κλύδων τρόπιος the sides of the ship from the keel, ib.12.420; undo, ἀπὸ κρήδεμνον ἔλυσεν ib.3.392; “ἐπιδέσματα” Hp. Fract.25.
2. set free, release, relieve from, “ἀ. τινὰ τῆς φρουρῆς” Hdt. 2.30; “τῆς ἐπιμελείας” X.Cyr.8.3.47; “τῶν ἐκεῖ κακῶν” Pl.R.365a; “τὴν ψυχὴν ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ σώματος κοινωνίας” Id.Phd.65a, cf. 67a; ἀ. τῆς μετρήσεως save them from the trouble of measuring, Arist.Pol.1257a40:— Pass., to be set free, τῶν δεινῶν, φόβου, Th.1.70, 7.56, etc.
b. freq. in legal sense, ἀ. τῆς αἰτίης acquit of the charge, Hdt.9.88, X.An.6.6.15; opp. καταψηφίζω, Democr.262; “τῆς εὐθύνης” Ar.V.571: c. inf., ἀ. τινὰ μὴ φῶρα εἶναι acquit of being a thief, Hdt.2.174; so “ἀπολύεται μὴ ἀδικεῖν” Th.1.95, cf. 128: abs., acquit, Ar.V.988,1000, Lys.20.20, etc.
II. in Il. always, = ἀπολυτρόω, release on receipt of ransom, “οὐδ᾽ ἀπέλυσε θύγατρα καὶ οὐκ ἀπεδέξατ᾽ ἄποινα” 1.95; “Ἕκτορ᾽ ἔχει . . οὐδ᾽ ἀπέλυσεν” 24.115, al.:—Med., set free by payment of ransom, ransom, redeem, “χαλκοῦ τε χρυσοῦ τ᾽ ἀπολυσόμεθ᾽” at a price of . ., Il.22.50 (but Act. in Prose, “ἀπολύειν πολλῶν χρημάτων” X.HG4.8.21).
2. let go, let alone, leave one, of an illness, Hp.Coac.564.
III. discharge, disband an army, “ἀ. οἴκαδε” X.HG6.5.21; generally, dismiss, discharge, “ἐμὲ . . ἀπέλυσ᾽ ἄδειπνον” Ar.Ach. 1155, cf. Bion 1.96.
4. discharge or pay a debt, Pl.Cra.417b; pay, “ἀ. τὸν χαλκόν” PTeb.490 (i B. C.); pay off a mortgage, POxy.509.15.
5. dismiss a charge, “εἰσαγγελία ὑπὸ τοῦ κατηγόρου ἀπολελυμένη” Hyp.Eux.38.
IV. “ἀ. ἀνδράποδα Θρᾳξίν” sell, Antipho 5.20; ἀ. οἰκίαν τινί sell a mortgaged house outright, Is.6.33.
VII. intr., depart (cf. B.IV, C. 2), Plb.3.69.14, al.
II. ἀπολύεσθαι διαβολάς do away with, refute calumnies against one, Th.8.87, Pl.Ap.37b, al.: abs., Arist.Rh.1416b9.
2. τὴν αἰτίαν, τὰς βλασφημίας, τὰ κατηγορημένα, Th.5.75, D. 15.2, 18.4: c. gen., “τῶν εἰς Ἀριστόβουλον -σασθαι” J.AJ15.3.5.
b. refute, “τοὺς ἐναντίους λόγους” Dam.Pr.126 ter: abs., “ὁ δὲ ἀπολυόμενος ἔφη” in defence, Hdt.8.59.
2. release from, “τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἀ. δουλείας” Id.Mx.245a.
IV. like Pass. (c. 11), depart, S.Ant.1314; also, put off, “πνεῦμα ἀ.” AP9.276 (Crin.); but “πνεῦμα μελῶν ἀπέλυε” IG14.607e (Carales).
C. Pass., to be released, ἐλπίζων τοὺς υἱέας τῆς στρατηΐης ἀπολελύσθαι from military service, Hdt.4.84, cf. X.Cyr.6.2.37; τῆς ἀρχῆς ἀπολυθῆναι βουλόμενοι to be freed from their rule, Th.2.8; “τῶν δεινῶν μηδέποτε οἴεσθαι ἀπολυθήσεσθαι” Id.1.70; “τῆς ὑποψίας” Antipho 2.4.3; τῆς μιαρίας ib. 3.11: abs., to be acquitted, Th.6.29; to be absolved from, “τῶν ἀδικημάτων” Pl.Phd.113d.
II. of combatants, to be separated, part, “οὐ ῥᾳδίως ἀπελύοντο” Th.1.49; generally, to be separated or detached, ἀλλήλων or ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων, Arist.Metaph.1031b3, Ph.185a28; “ἀ. τὰ ᾠὰ τῆς ὑστέρας” Id.GA754b18, al.; ἀπολελυμένος, abs., detached, αἰδοῖον, γλῶττα, ὄρχεις, Id.HA500b2, 533a27, 535b2; τὴν γλῶτταν ἀ. having its tongue detached, Id.Fr.319, al.; also, distinct, differentiated, Id.HA497b22.
2. depart, ἔθανες, ἀπελύθης, S.Ant.1268 (lyr.), cf. Plb.6.58.4, al., LXX Nu.20.29, al.; cf. supr. B. IV.
III. of a child, to be brought forth, Hp.Superf.11, cf. 24, Arist.GA745b11; of the mother, to be delivered, Hp.Epid.2.2.17.
IV. to be annulled, Arist. EN1156a22.
V. ἀπολελυμένος, η, ον, absolute, esp. in Gramm., D.T. 636.15, A.D.Synt.97.20, al.: also, general, of meaning, Olymp.Alch. p.72B.
VI. of metres, irregular, without strophic responsion, Heph.Poëm.5.
