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ἀπαίρω (cf. ἀπαείρω), fut. ἀπα_ρῶ: aor. 1
A.“ἀπῆρα” E.IT967: pf. “ἀπῆρκα” Th.8.100, Aeschin.2.82: Ion. impf. ἀπαιρέεσκον, v.l. ἀπαίρεσκον, Hdt.1.186:—lift off, and so, carry off, take away, τὰ ξύλα ibid.; remove, “τί τινος” E.Or.1608; “τινὰ Σπάρτης” Id.Hel.1671; in IT967, perh. get rid of, νικῶν ἀπῆρα φόνια πειρατήρια:—Pass., “ἀπαίρεται τράπεζα” Achae.17.5; “ἀπό τινος” Ev.Matt.9.15.
II. lead or carry away, “τὰς νέας ἀπὸ Σαλαμῖνος” Hdt.8.57; “μελάθρων ἀ. πόδα” E.El. 774; “ἀ. τινὰ ἐκ χθονός” Id.Hel.1520.
2. elliptically (sc. ναῦς, στρατόν, etc.), sail away, march away, depart, “ἀπαίρειν ἀπὸ Σαλαμῖνος” Hdt. 8.60, freq. in Th., X., etc.: c. gen., ἀπαίρειν χθονός depart from the land, E.Cyc.131; “Σπάρτης ἀπῆρας νηΐ Κρησίαν χθόνα” Id.Tr.944: c. acc. cogn., ἀ. πρεσβείαν to set out on an embassy, D.19.163.
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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