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ἄπολις , ι: gen. ιδος or εως, Ion. ιος: dat.
A.“ἀπόλι” Hdt.8.61:—without city, state or country, Id.7.104, 8.61, etc.; outlaw, banished man, ἄ. τινα τιθέναι, ποιεῖν, S.OC1357, Antipho2.2.9, Pl.Lg.928e, etc.; “προβαλέσθαι” S.Ph.1018; “ἀ. ἀντὶ πολιτῶν” Lys.20.35; ἄ. τῆς ἀρχαίας (sc. πόλεως) Aristid.Or.26(14).75.
2. no true citizen, opp. ὑψίπολις, S.Ant.370.
II. of a country, without cities, Plu.Tim. 1, Philostr.VA1.24.
III. πόλις ἄπολις a city that is no city, a ruined city, “ἄ. Ἰλίου πόλιν ἔθηκας” A.Eu.457, cf. E.Tr.1292; also, one that has no constitution, no true city, Pl.Lg.766d.
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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