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ἀπό-στα^σις , εως, ἡ, (ἀφίστημι)
A.causing to revolt, “συμμάχων” Th.1.122; “Ἰώνων ἀπὸ τῆς Λακεδαιμονίων συμμαχίας” Arist.Ath.23.4.
B. (ἀφίσταμαι) emanation, “εἰδώλων -σεις” Epicur.Fr.320.
2. slackness, of bandages, Gal.18(2).806.
3. defection, revolt, “ἀπό τινος” Hdt.3.128; “τὴν Κυπρίων ἀ. πρῆξαι” Id.5.113; “τὴν Αἰγύπτου ἀ. παρασκευάζεσθαι” Id.7.4; “ἀ. ἐκ τῆς ξυμμαχίας” Th.5.81; “ἀ. πρός τινα” Id.1.75; “διπλῆν ἀ. ἀποστήσεσθαι” Id.3.13; ἀ. τῶν Ἀθηναίων, for ἀπὸ τ. Ἀ., Id.8.5; but τὰς “Μεσσηνίων ἀ.” Pl.Lg.777c.
4. departure from, “βίου” E.Hipp. 277; separation of effect from cause, Procl.Inst.35; giving up, cession, “ἀ. τῶν κτημάτων” D.19.146; desisting from, disuse of, “φάσεως” S.E.P.1.192; “τῶν ἀπροαιρέτων” Arr.Epict.4.4.39.
5. distance, “ἁ ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν ἀ.” Archyt.1; “ἀφεστάναι τῇ αὐτῇ ἀ. ᾗπερ . .” Pl.Phd.111b; “ἀπόστασιν ὅσην ἀφεστηκὼς γίγνεται” Id.R.587d,cf.546b; “ἐκ μικρᾶς ἀ.” Arist.Aud.800b7; “τῇ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἀ.” Id.HA503a21; ἐκ τῶν ἀ. according to their distances, Id.Cael.290b22; of time, “κατὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸ νῦν ἀ.” Id.Ph.223a5; ἐξ ἀποστάσεως at a certain distance, Plb.3.114.3; “ἐν ἀποστάσει” Id.3.113.4, Phld.Herc.19.25; “κατ᾽ ἀποστάσεις” Hanno Peripl.13.
6. Rhet., employment of detached phrases, Hermog.Id.1.10, Aristid.Rh.1p.462S., Philostr.VS1.9.1(pl.), Ep.73.
7. lapse, declension, Plot. 1.8.7,5.1.1.
II. place where something is put away, repository, storehouse, Str.17.1.9, Philippid.14, Heraclid.Pol.72.
III. Medic.,suppurative inflammation, throwing off the peccant humours left by fever, etc., Hp.Epid.3.4(pl.), Aret.SD1.9, Aristid.Or.47(23).68.
2. of diseases, transition from one to another, Hp.Epid.1.6; στραγγουριώδης ἀ. ib.3.1ά.
3. lesion of continuity, Gal.18(2).820.
4. degree of heat, cold, etc., Id.11.561, al.
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 (22):
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 23.4
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 146
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 277
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.4
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.128
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.113
    • Plato, Laws, 777c
    • Plato, Republic, 587d
    • Plato, Republic, 546b
    • Plato, Phaedo, 111b
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.9
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.13
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.75
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.81
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.113.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.114.3
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.5
    • Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 3.1
    • Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 3.4
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.9
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.122
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.9.1
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