A.“ἀπωσέμεν” Il.13.367: aor. “ἀπέωσα” Od.9.81, ἀπῶσα prob. corrupt in S.Fr.479:—Med., fut. “ἀπεώσομαι” LXX 4 Ki.21.14: aor. “ἀπωσάμην” Hom. (v. infr.), “ἀπεωσάμην” Th.1.32, etc., “ἀπωθησάμην” D.C.38.28 codd.: pf. ἀπῶσμαι: ἀπώθησα, Hsch., inf. “ἀπεῶσθαι” Th.2.39:—Pass., pf. part. “ἀπωσμένος” Phld.Ir.p.33 W.:—thrust away, push back, “ὤϊξε πύλας καὶ ἀπῶσεν ὀχῆας” Il.24.446, cf. 21.537; ἀ. ἐπάλξεις pushed them off the wall, Th.3.23:—Med., thrust away from oneself, “χερσὶν ἀπώσασθαι λίθον” Od.9.305; ἀπώσατο ἦκα γέροντα pushed him gently away, Il.24.508; “αἱ χεῖρες τὸ τόξον -οῦνταί τε καὶ προσέλκονται” Pl.R.439b.
2. drive away, ἠέρα μὲν σκέδασεν καὶ ἀπῶσεν ὀμίχλην [Ζεύς] Il.17.649; of the wind, beat from one's course, “Βορέης ἀπέωσε” Od.9.81 (so in Med., “σφέας κεῖθεν ἀπώσατο ἲς ἀνέμοιο” 13.276).
3. c. gen., “εἴ κέ μιν οὐδοῦ ἀπώσομεν” 22.76, cf. 2.130; “γῆς ἀπῶσαί [με] πατρίδος” S.OT641:—Med., thrust from oneself, drive away, “μνηστῆρας ἀπώσεαι ἐκ μεγάροιο” Od.1.270:—Pass., to be expelled, Hdt.1.173; “ἀπωθοῦμαι δόμων” Ar.Ach.450; “γῆς” S.OT670.
4. thrust aside, spurn, Id.Aj.446,al.:—Pass., “τὸν δῆμον πρότερον ἀπωσμένον” pushed aside, Hdt. 5.69.
5. repel, drive back, in Med., “Τρῶας ἀπώσασθαι” Il.8.206; “νεῖκος ἀπωσαμένους” 12.276; “ἀπώσασθαι κακὰ νηῶν” 15.503; “νηῶν μὲν ἀπωσάμενοι δήϊον πῦρ” 16.301; “πένθος” Archil.9.10; “νοῦσον” AP6.190(Gaet.):— also in Prose, Antipho 4.4.6, etc.: c. dupl. acc., “τὴν ναυμαχίαν ἀπεωσάμεθα Κορινθίους” Th.1.32.
6. in Med., reject, “τὸ ἀργύριον” Hdt.1.199; “τὸν αὐλόν” S.Tr.216(lyr.); “φιλότητα” Id.Ph.1122(lyr.); “τὰς σπονδάς” Th.5.22; “τὰ ἐξ ἀδικίας κέρδη” Pl.R.366a; ἀ. πόνους decline them, E.Fr. 789; τὴν δουλοσύνην shake off slavery, Hdt.1.95; ὕπνον shake off sleep, Pl.R.571c: abs., refuse, “ποιήσω κοὐκ ἀπώσομαι” S. Tr.1249.