Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“ἀπορίομες” X.HG1.1.23: aor. “ἠπόρησα” Th.1.63, etc.: pf. “ἠπόρηκα” Pl.Sph.244a, etc.:—Pass., fut. ἀπορηθήσομαι （συν-) S.E.M.10.5, but Med. in pass. sense “ἀπορήσομαι” Arist. MM1200a11: aor. ἠπορήθην, pf. ἠπόρημαι, both in act. and pass. sense (v. infr.):—to be ἄπορος, i. e. without means or resource: hence,

1. to be at a loss, be in doubt, be puzzled, mostly folld. by relat. clause, “ἀ. ὅκως διαβήσεται” Hdt.1.75; “ὅτῳ τρόπῳ διασωθήσεται” Th.3.109; “ὅ τι λέξω δ᾽ ἀπορῶ” S.OT486(lyr.); ἀ. ὅπῃ, ὁπόθεν, ὅποι, Th.1.107, 8.80, X. HG5.4.44; “ὅτι χρὴ ποιεῖν” Id.Cyr.4.5.38; “τίνα χρὴ τρόπον . .” D.3.3; “ἀ. εἰ . .” Pl.Prt.326e; “πότερα . .” X.Mem.1.4.6; ἀ. ὁποτέραν τῶν ὁδῶν τράπηται ib.2.1.21; ἀ. μή . . fear lest . ., Pl.Alc.2.142d: with acc.added, ἀ. τὴν ἔλασιν ὅκως διεκπερᾷ to be at a loss about his march, how to cross, Hdt.3.4: c. acc. only, ἀ. τὴν ἐξαγωγήν to be at a loss about it, Id.4.179, cf. Ar.Ec.664, Pl.Prt.348c, al.: also c. inf., to be at a loss how to do, Ar.V.590, Pl.Plt.262e, Lys.9.7:—also “ἀ. περί τινος” Pl.Phd.84c, Grg.462b, al.; “ἀ. διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ὅθεν ἄρξομαι” And. 4.10; “ἐς πολλά” S.Tr.1243: abs., Hdt.6.134; οὐκ ἀπορήσας without hesitation, Id.1.159; “τὸ δ᾽ ἀπορεῖν ἀνδρὸς κακοῦ” E.HF106, etc.:— Med. used like Act., Hdt.2.121.“γ́; ὡς ἠπόρημαι . . τάδε” E.IA537; “ἠπορούμην ὅτι χρησαίμην” Lys.3.10, cf. Pl.Prt.321c: so in aor. Pass., “πολλὰ . . ἀπορηθείς” D.27.53.

2. in Dialectic, start a question, raise a difficulty, “ἀπορία ἣν ἀπορεῖς” Pl.Prt.324d; “ἀ. περί τινος” Arist.Ph. 194a15, al.; “τὰ αὐτὰ περί τινος” Metaph.1085a35; “ἀ. πότερον . .” Pol. 1283b36; “ἀπορήσειε δ᾽ ἄν τις τί . .” EN1096a34, cf. 1145b21, Plb.1.64.1, al.:—Pass., τὸ ἀπορούμενον, τὸ ἀπορηθέν, the difficulty just started, the puzzle before us, Pl.Sph.243b, Lg.799c, cf. Hp.VM1; “τὰ ἠπορημένα” Arist.Pol. 1281a38; ἀπορεῖται there is a question or difficulty, “πότερον . .” Id.EN1c99b9; μή . . ib. 1159a6.

3. Pass., of things, to be left wanting, left unprovided for, “τῶν δεομένων γίγνεσθαι οὐδὲν ἀπορεῖται” X.Lac.13.7, cf. Oec.8.10; to fail, turn out a failure, opp. εὐπορεῖσθαι, Hp.Art.47.

II. c. gen. rei, to be at a loss for, in want of, “ἀπορεῖς δὲ τοῦ σύ;” S.Ph.898; “ἀλφίτων” Ar.Pax636; “πάντων” Id.Pl.531; τροφῆς Thuc.8.81; “ξυμμάχων” X.Cyr.4.2.39; “τοσαύτης δαπάνης” Id.Mem.1.3.5; “λόγων” Pl.Smp.193e:—Med., Id.Lg.925b.

III. ἀ. τινί to be at a loss by reason of, by means of something, X.An.1.3.8, Isoc.4.147.

IV. to be in want, be poor, opp. εὐπορέω, in Med., “ὅταν ἀπορῆταί τις” Antiph.123, but Act., Timocl.11, E.Fr.953.19; opp. πλουτέω, Pl. Smp.203e:—Pass., “ἄνθρωπος ἠπορημένος” Com.Adesp.249.—Chiefly Prose and Com.; never in A., thrice in S., twice in E.