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ἀποχωρ-έω , fut.
A.“-ήσομαι” Th.3.13, D.25.78:—go from or away from, “δόμων” Ar.Ach.456; “ἐκ τοῦ στρατοπέδου” Pl.R.394a.
2. abs., depart, “πάλιν ἀ.” E.IT265; withdraw, ἐπὶ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα v.l. in X.Cyr. 1.6.36; esp. after a defeat, retire, retreat, Th.2.89, etc.; “πρὸς τὴν πόλιν” X.HG4.4.11; “ἐπὶ τῆς Κορίνθου” Th.2.94.
3. “ἀ.ἐκ τῶν πόλεων” . . withdraw from . ., give up possession of, X.HG5.2.13.
b. metaph., withdraw or dissent from opinions, “δοξῶν” Gal.15.356, cf. Arr.Epict.4.1.53.
4. turn out, succeed, Phld.Rh.1.105S.; of persons, κατὰ τρόπον ἀ. to be successful, ib.2.259S.
5. have recourse, εἴς, ἐπί τι, D.25.78.37.21.
II. pass off, esp. of the excretions of the body, Hp.Judic.10, X.Cyr.1.2.16; “τὰ ἀποχωροῦντα” excrements, Id.Mem.1.4.6; “τὸ ἀποχωροῦν” excretion, Arist.GA725b15.
III. of places, to be distant, “μέρη ἀποκεχωρηκότα” Plb.15.27.8; ἀ. ὡς πόδα to be a foot apart, Apollod.Poliorc.165.1.
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 (14):
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 78
    • Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1, 78.37.21
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 265
    • Plato, Republic, 394a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.94
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.13
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.89
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.2.16
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.6.36
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.4.11
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.2.13
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.4.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 15.27.8
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 456
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