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ἀφέλκ-ω , Ion. ἀπέλκω , fut.
A.“ἀφέλξω” E. Hec.142 (lyr.): aor. ἀφείλκυ^σα (v. infr.): pf. “ἀφείλκυ^κα” M.Ant.3.6:— drag away, “ἱκέτας ἐκ τοῦ ἱροῦ” Hdt.3.48, cf. S.OC844, E.Heracl.113; “πῶλον ἀπὸ μαστῶν” Id.Hec.142 (lyr.); “τινὰς ἀπὸ τέκνων καὶ γονέων καὶ γυναικῶν” Lys.12.96; drag a speaker from the βῆμα, Pl.Prt.319c; ἀ. τὰς τριήρεις drag or tow ships away, Th.2.93, cf. 7.53,74; draw aside, divert, “ἐπὶ τὰ ἡδέα” X.Mem.4.5.6; τὸ δέρμα ἀ. to draw it off, Hp.Art. 11:—Pass., ibid.
II. draw off liquor, “κάδων πώματα” Archil.4; “θρόμβους οὓς ἀφείλκυσας φόνου” A.Eu.184.
2. Med., τοῦ δόρατος ἀφελκύσωμαι τοὔλυτρον let me draw off the sheath from . . , Ar.Ach.1120.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 184
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 142
    • Euripides, Heraclidae, 113
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.48
    • Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, 96
    • Plato, Protagoras, 319c
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 844
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.93
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.53
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 4.5.6
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1120
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 11
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 3.6
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