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ἀπο-λούω ,
I. c. acc. rei, wash off, “λούειν ἄπο βρότον” Il. 14.7:—Med., ὄφρ᾽ . . ἅλμην ὤμοιϊν ἀπολούσομαι that I may wash the brine from off my shoulders, Od.6.219; of baptism, “ἀ. τὰς ἁμαρτίας” Act.Ap.22.16.
2. c. acc. pers., wash clean, Ar.V.118 (ἀπέλου for ἀπέλοε, v. λούω), Pl.Cra.405b, 406a:—Med., wash away from oneself, “λούσασθαι ἄπο βρότον αἱματόεντα” Il.23.41; “τὸ σῶμα ἀπελούετο” Longus 1.13: in archaic style, “ἀπολούμενος” Luc.Lex.2, cf. Ath.3.97e,98a.
3. c. acc. pers. et rei, ὄφρα τάχιστα Πάτροκλον λούσειαν ἄπο βρότον might wash the gore off him, Il.18.345: c. gen. rei, “καί μ᾽ ἀπέλουσε λύθρου” Epigr.Gr.314.6 (Smyrna).
4. ἀπολουσέμεναι: κολ[λ]οβώσειν (Cypr.), Hsch.; cf. ἀπολέπω.
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 (11):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 118
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.7
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.345
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.41
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.219
    • Plato, Cratylus, 405b
    • Plato, Cratylus, 406a
    • New Testament, Acts, 22.16
    • Athenaeus, of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae, 98a
    • Lucian, Lexiphanes, 2
    • Longus, Daphnis & Chloe, 1.13
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