A.“-ήσομαι” Pl.Grg.461c: aor.“ἀπηρνησάμην” Call.Cer. 75,107, A.R.3.1133 (v.l.), Ev.Matt.16.24, al., but in Trag. and Att., “-ηρνήθην” S.Tr.480, E.Hipp.1266, Th.6.56, etc.:—deny utterly, Hdt. 6.69; “κλέψαντες ἀπαρνεῖσθαι” Antipho 2.3.4; “μή . . ἀπαρνηθεὶς γένῃ” Pl. Sph.217c; ἀπαρνηθῆναί τι to refuse, reject it, Th. l.c., etc.; ἀ. μή c. inf., “τὸν . . ἀπαρνηθέντα μὴ χρᾶναι” E. l.c.; οὐκ ἀπαρνοῦμαι τὸ μή (sc. δρᾶσαι) S.Ant.443, Aj.96; “τίνα οἴει ἀπαρνήσεσθαι μὴ οὐ . .;” Pl. Grg.461c; “οἷός ἐστι μὴ ἂν ἀ. χαρίσασθαι” Id.Phdr.256a.
3. ἀ. ἑαυτόν deny oneself, Ev.Matt.16.24, al.
II. Pass., fut. ἀπαρνηθήσεται it shall be denied or refused, S.Ph.527, cf. Ev.Luc.12.9, dub. in LXXIs.31.7: aor. “ὥνθρωπος ἓν μὲν οἶδεν, ἓν δ᾽ ἀπηρνήθη” was refused, Herod.4.74.