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ἀφέτ-ης , ου, ὁ, (
A.“ἀφίημἰ” one who lets off a military engine, Plb.4.56.3.
b. teacher of ballistic, IG2.465.22.
c. starter in races, POxy.152.1 (vii A.D.).
2. Astrol., prorogator, heavenly body which determines the vital quadrant, Ptol.Tetr.131.
II. Pass., a freed-slave among the Spartans, Myro2.
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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    • Polybius, Histories, 4.56.3
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 131
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