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ἀποτροπ-ή , ἡ,
A.turningaway, averting, A.Pers.217; ἄλλοσ᾽ ἀποτροπὰ κακῶν γένοιτο, i.e. ἄλλοσε ἀποτρέποιτο κακά, E.Hel.360; “λυπῶν ἀπαλλαγάς τε καὶ ἀποτροπάς” Pl.Prt.354b; τεράτων ἀ., Lat. procuratio, Plu.Fab.18.
2. diverting, of water, Pl.Lg.845d.
3. prevention, Th.3.45; “ἀποτροπῆς ἕνεκα κολάζειν” Pl.Prt.324b, cf.R.382c.
4. dissuasion, Id.Thg. 128d; opp. προτροπή, Arist.Rh. 1358b9, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.3.
II. (from Med.) desertion of one's party, 'ratting', Th.3.82.
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 (10):
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 217
    • Euripides, Helen, 360
    • Plato, Laws, 845d
    • Plato, Republic, 382c
    • Plato, Theages, 128d
    • Plato, Protagoras, 324b
    • Plato, Protagoras, 354b
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.45
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.82
    • Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, 18
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