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ἀπέρχομαι , fut. -ελεύσομαι (Att. fut. ἄπειμι): pf. -ελήλυθα: aor. -ῆλθον:—
A.go away, depart from, c. gen., “πάτρης” Il.24.766; “οἴκου” Od. 2.136, cf. S.OC1165, etc.; “λόγου” E.IT546; “ἀ. ἀπὸ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου” Th.8.92; “ἐκ τῆς χώρας” Id.1.89, etc.: metaph., ἀ. ἐκ δακρύων cease from tears. E.Or.205.
2. with εἰς, implying departure from one place and arrival at another, “ἀ. ἐς τὰς Σάρδις” Hdt.1.22; “ἀ. εἰς Θουρίους οἰκήσοντες” And.4.12; “παρά τινα” Luc.Tim.11; ἀ. ἐπ᾽ οἴκου depart homewards, Th.1.92; “ἀθῷος οἴκαδε” Archipp.40; ἀπῆλθεν ὅθεν . . went back to the place whence he came, Men.481.3: metaph., “ἀ. εἰς τὴν ἀρχαίαν φύσιν” Pl.Smp.193c.
3. abs., Hdt.1.199, etc.; ταχεῖ᾽ ἀπέρχεται (sc. ἡ νόσος) S.Ph.808; κα<*>῀τ᾽ ὀφλὼν ἀ. Ar.Ach.689; ἄπελθε τουτονὶ λαβών take him and be off! Id.Av.948; “ἀπελθόντος ἐνιαυτοῦ” Pl.Lg.954d; “νυκτὸσ-ομένης” Arat.315.
4. c. part., ἀ. νικῶν come off conqueror, Aristid.2.2 J., cf.Plu.Ages.7,etc.
5. spread abroad, “ἀπῆλθεν ἡ ἀκοὴ αὐτοῦ εἰς Συρίαν” Ev.Matt.4.24.
II. depart from life, “ἀ. κάτω” E.Alc.379, cf.S.Ant.818(lyr.): abs., D.L.3.6, AP11.335, cf. Ph.1.513, Plot.4.7.15; “εἰς τοὺς θεούς” PPetr.2p.45 (iii B.C.).
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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