A.going back, backwards, “ἄψορροι κίομεν” Il.21.456; “ἄψορροι προτὶ Ἴλιον ἀπονέοντο” 3.313; “ἐκ δόμων ἄ. . . περᾷ” S.Ant.386, cf. OT431: mostly in neut. ἄψορρον as Adv., backward, back again, “ἄψορρον . . ἔβη” Il.7.413; “ἄ. οἱ θυμὸς ἀγέρθη” 4.152; “ἄ. προσέφην” Od.9.282; “ἄψορρον ἥξεις” A.Pr.1021, cf. S.El.53; ὦ παῖδες, οὐκ ἄψορρον (sc. ἄπιτε); ib.1430; “οὐκ ἄ. ἐκνεμῇ πόδα;” Id.Aj.369 (lyr.). (For ἄψ-ορσος, cf. παλίν-ορσος.）
ἄψορρος , ον,
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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