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ἀπούρας , Homeric aor. part. Act., cf.
A.“ἀπούραις” Pi.P.4.149: aor. ind. ἀπηύρων, as, a, Hom.; pl. “ἀπηύρων” Il.1.430: aor. part. Med. “ἀπουράμενος” Hes.Sc.173: fut. “ἀπουρήσω” Il.22.489 (Sch.Ven.B):—take away or wrest from, rob of, c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, “ἄμφω θυμὸν ἀπηύρα” 6.17; “ἁπαλόν τέ σφ᾽ ἦτορ ἀπηύρα” 11.115; τοὺς μὲν Τυδεΐδης . . τεύχε᾽ ἀπηύρα ib.334; “λάθον δέ ἑ θυμὸν ἀπούρας” Od.13.270, etc.
2. c. gen. pers., a doubtful construction in “Ἀχιλλῆος γέρας αὐτὸς ἀπηύρων” Il.19.89; “κούρην . . Ἀχιλῆος ἔβης κλισίηθεν ἀπούρας” 9.107, cf. Od.18.273; “τήν ῥα βίῃ ἀέκοντος ἀπηύρων” Il.1.430 (where β. ἀ. may be taken together, 'in spite of him unwilling', cf. “ἤ σε βίῃ ἀέκοντος ἀπηύρα νῆα” Od.4.646).
3. c. dat. pers., “πολέσσιν . . θυμὸν ἀπηύρα” Il.17.236; “οἱ οὔ τιν᾽ ἀπηύρα” Od.3.192.
4. c. acc. only, “ἔχει γέρας αὐτὸς ἀπούρας” Il.1.356; “ἐλεύθερον ἦμαρ ἀ.” 6.455, etc.:—Med., ἀπουράμενοι ψυχάς having taken away each other's lives, Hes.Sc.173.
II. after Hom., receive good or ill, enjoy or suffer, first in Hes.Op.240 ξύμπασα πόλις κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀπηύρα (v.l. ἐπαυρεῖ）“; φόνον πρὸς τέκνων ἀπηύρα” E.Andr.1030 (lyr.). (ἀπο-ϝρα_-, augmented ἀπ-η-ϝρα_- (cf. ἠείδη, ἑώρων for ἠϝόρων); perh. cogn. with ἀπό-（ϝ）ερσε.）
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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