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ἀποδημ-έω , Dor. ἀποδημ-δα_μέω , pf. ἀπεδήμηκα dub. in Hermipp.66:—
A.to be away from home, be abroad or on one's travels, Hdt.1.29,4.1,152, Ar.Nu.371, etc.; of foreign service, Id.Lys.101; opp. ἐπιδημεῖν, X. Cyr.7.5.69: metaph., to be absent, Pi.P.10.37; “ὁ νοῦς παρὼν ἀποδημεῖ” Ar.Eq.1120: sts. c. gen., “ἀποδημεῖν οἰκίας” Pl.Lg.954b; “ἀπὸ τῆς ἑωυτῶν” Hdt.9.117; “ἐκ τῆς πόλεως” Pl.Cri.53a; “οὐκ ἔξεστι ἀποδημεῖν τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις” Arist.Fr.543.
2. go abroad, παρά τινα to visit him, Hdt.3.124; ἀ. ἐς Αἴγιναν κατὰ τοὺς Αἰακίδας go abroad to Aegina to fetch the Aeacidae, Id.8.84; “ἀ. ἐπὶ δεῖπνον εἰς Θετταλίαν” Pl.Cri.53e; “ἐνθένδε εἰς ἄλλον τόπον” Id.Ap.40e; “κατ᾽ ἐμπορίαν” Lycurg.21,57 (v.l. ἐπί）“; πρὸς τὰ ἱερά” X.HG4.7.3; “ποῖ γῆς ἀπεδήμεις;” Ar.Ra.48; “ἄλλοσε ἀ.” Pl.Lg.579b; “ἐκεῖσε” Id.Phd.61e.
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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