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ἀπο-ρρίπτω , poet. ἀπορίπτω Pi.P.6.37, later ἀπορριπτέω X.HG5.4.42, Plu. Caes. 39, Cat.Ma.5, Luc. Tim.12, Hdn.4.9.2, D.C.74.1, fut.
A.“-ρρίψω” Hes.Sc. 215: pf. “ἀπέρριφα” Plb.1.40.15:—throw away, put away, μῆνιν, μηνιθμόν, Il.9.517, 16.282; “ἀπὸ κρόκεον ῥίψαις . . εἷμα” Pi.P.4.232; ἀπορριψοντι ἐοικώς like one about to cast [a net], Hes.Sc.215; “ἀ. ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματος” spit, Thphr.Char.19.4; vomit, “τὴν τροφήν” Asclep.Jun. ap. Gal.13.162; cast up, of a river, “τοὺς νεκροὺς τῶν ῥευμάτων” Jul.Or.2.60c.
II. cast forth from one's country, A.Ch.914; “ἀπωστὸς γῆς ἀπορριφθήσομαι” S.Aj.1019; “ἀπερριμμένοι” outcasts, D.18.48, cf. D.H. 9.10; of things, reject, PBaden19.12 (ii A.D.); “τὰ φαῦλα καὶ ἀπερρ. τῶν ἐδεσμάτων” Hdn.4.12.2.
2. disown reject, Pi.O.9.38, S.El. 1018.
3. throw aside, set at naught, “ἡ ἡμετέρη εὐδαιμονίη οὕτω τοι ἀπέρριπται ἐς τὸ μηδέν” Hdt.1.32; “Κύπρις δ᾽ ἄτιμος τᾠδ᾽ ἀ. λόγῳ” A.Eu. 215; “ὅταν . . τὰ χρηστὰ ἀπορρίπτηται” D.25.75.
III. of words, utter, esp. in disparagement, “ἔς τινα” Hdt.1.153,4.142 (Pass.),8.92: generally, ἀ. ἔπος let fall a word, Id.6.69; “χαμαιπετὲς ἔπος ἀ.” Pi.P. 6.37; “λόγον ἀχρεῖον” Ant.Lib.11.3; “μηδ᾽ ἀπορριφθῇ λόγος” A.Supp. 484.
IV. intr., throw oneself down, leap off, Act.Ap.27.43, Charito 3.5.
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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