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ἀποκρύπτω , used by Hom. only in aor. 1, Ep. impf.
A.“ἀποκρύπτασκε” Hes.Th.157:—Pass., aor. -εκρύβην [υ^] LXXJb.3.23: fut. -κρυ^βήσομαι ib.Ps.18(19).6, Gal.UP10.12:—Med., aor.2 “-εκρυβόμην” Apollod. 3.2.1:—hide from, keep hidden from, c. acc. et gen., “αἴ γάρ μιν θανάτοιο . . δυναίμην νόσφιν ἀποκρύψαι” Il.18.465: c. dat. pers., “ἀπέκρυψεν δέ μοι ἵππους” 11.718: c. dupl. acc., hide or keep back from one, “ου^τε σε ἀποκρύψω τὴν ἐμὴν οὐσίαν” Hdt.7.28; “τι ἀπό τινος” LXX4 Ki.4.27:— Med., “ἀποκρύπτεσθαί τινά τι” Pl.Lg.702c, X. Mem.2.6.29, etc.; ἀ. τι keep it back, Pl.Prt.348e, cf. 327a: c. acc. pers., X.Cyr.8.7.23, Smp. 1.6.
2. hide from sight, keep hidden, conceal, Od.17.286, etc.; “ἔθηκε νύκτ᾽ ἀποκρύψας φάος” Archil.74.3; “τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθεος τῶν ὀϊστῶν ἀ.” Hdt.7.226; “ἀποκρύψει φάος νύξ” A.Pr.24; “χιὼν ἀ. τι” X. An.4.4.11; “ἀ. τὴν σοφίαν” Pl.Ap.22e; “ἀ. τὴν οὐσίαν ἐν ταῖς οἰκίαις” Isoc.1.42; “εἰς τὸ ἄδηλον -κρύπτων” X.Eq.Mag.5.7:—Med., Ar.Eq. 424.483; ἀ. ἑαυτόν efface oneself, Pl.R.393c: c. inf., ἀποκρύπτεσθαί τι μὴ καθ᾽ ἡδονὴν ποιεῖν to conceal one's doing, Th.2.53; “περὶ ὧν ἀποκρυπτόμεθα μηδένα εἰδέναι” Lys.7.18; pf. Pass. in med. sense, “οὐκ ἀποκέκρυπται τὴν οὐσίαν” D.28.3: abs., “ἀποκρύψασθαι πρός τινα” Isoc. 11.2:—Pass., “τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποκεκρυμμένον” Hdt.7.45; τοὺς ἀποκρυπτομένονς those who withdraw from public, Alex. 265.
3. obscure, E.Fr. 153, Arist.Po.1460b4, Alcid.Soph.30, Lib. Or.63.26, Jul.Or.1.44c.
II. ἀ. γῆν lose from sight, of ships running out to sea, opp. “ἀνοίγνυμι” 1.3, “φεύγειν εἰς τὸ πέλαγος . . ἀποκρύψαντα γῆν” Pl.Prt.338a, cf. Lib.Or.59.147; ἐπειδὴ ἀπεκρύψαμεν αὐτούς when we got out of sight of them, Luc.VH2.38, cf. Th.5.65 (sc. αὐτούς） τὴν θάλατταν (i.e. by marching inland) Aristid.1.473 J.; ἀποκρύπτουσι Πελειάδες (sc. ἑαυτούς) disappear, Hes.Fr.179; “ἄστερες ἄμφι σελάνναν ἀ. εἶδος” Sapph.3; but also Pass. of ships, Hero Aut. 22.5.
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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