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ἄποπτος , ον, (ἀπόψομαι)
A.seen or to be seen from a place, “ὅπως μὴ ἄ. ἔσται ἡ κορινθία ἀπὸ τοῦ χώματος” Arist.Pol.1274a40, cf. Arr.Ind.4.7; ἐν ἀπόπτω ἔχειν in a conspicuous place, Id.An.2.10.3; “ἐν ἀ. εἱστιᾶσθαι” J.AJ13.14.2, etc.
II. out of sight of, far away from, “τοῦδ᾽ ἄποπτος ἄστεως” S.OT762; “ἄποπτος ἡμῶν” Id.El.1489: abs., Far away, “ἐξ ἀπόπτου μᾶλλον ἢ ἐγγύθεν σκοπεῖν” Id.Ph.467; “ὡς ἐξ ἀ. θεώμενος” Pl.Ax. 369a; “τόπος ἐξ ἀπόπτου καταφανής” Plu.Eum.15; “οὐδ᾽ ἐξ ἀ.” Phld.Rh.1.149S., Piet.27, cf. Gal.4.628.
2. dimly seen, S.Aj.15.
3. out of sight, “ἐν ἀπόπτω τίθενται τὸν χάρακα” D.H.2.54; “ἐξ ἀπόπτου τῶν Ῥωμαίων παρεμβαλόντες” Id.6.14.
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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