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ἀπᾴδω , fut.
A.“-ᾴσομαι” Pl.Ti.26d:—sing out of tune, “ὅλῃ ἁρμονίᾳ” Id.Lg.802e; “ἐπὶ τὸ ὀξύ” Arist.Pr.919b23: abs., Pl.Hp.Mi.374c, D.Chr. 13.20, etc.
II. metaph., dissent, “ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων” Pl.Lg.662b; “πρὸς τὴν καθεστῶσαν πολιτείαν” Plu.Lyc.27: c. gen., “ἐθῶν” Luc.Anach.6; to be at variance with, “τῆς ἀληθείας” Ph.1.235; fall short of, “τῆς διὰ τῶν νεύρων ἰσχύος” Hero Bel.112.16.
2. wander away, “πολὺ ἀπῇσας ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐρωτήματος” Pl.Hp.Ma.292c.
3. in part., unbefitting, “ἀπᾴδοντα τῷ θεῷ ἐγκώμια” Jul.Or.4.132b; “τῷ πράγματι” Lib.Or.10.34; “ξένον καὶ ἀπᾷδον τὸ ῥῆμα” Porph.Chr.69.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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