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ἀπο-φεύγω , fut.
A.“-φεύξομαι” Pl.Ap.39a; “-οῦμαι” Ar.Av.932: pf. “-πέφευγα” X.An.3.4.9, etc.:—flee from, escape, c.acc., Batr.42,47; “σοφίην ὁ σοφώτατος οὐκ ἀποφεύγει” Thgn.1159; “τὴν πεπρωμένην μοῖραν” Hdt.1.91; “τὴν μάχην” Id.5.102; “κῆρα” S.Ph.1166 (lyr.), cf. Pl.Ap.30a; “νόσον” D.28.15; “ἀ. ἐκ τῶν πλησίον κωμῶν” X.An.3.4.9; “ἐς Νίσαιαν” Th.1.114: rarely c. gen., “ἀ. τῆς φθορᾶς” 2 Ep.Pet.1.4: c. inf., auoid, “λέγειν” Phlp. in Ph.617.14: abs., get safe away, escape, Hdt.1.1, 9.102, etc.; go free, of manumitted slaves, IG2.786, al.
II. as law-term, “ἀ. πολλὸν τοὺς διώκοντας” Hdt.6.82; “τινά” And.1.123; “φεύγων ἂν ἀποφύγοι δίκην” Ar.Nu.167, cf. 1151; “γραφάς” Antipho 2.1.16; “εὐθύνας” Pl.Lg.946d: c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, “ἀπέφυγον αὐτοὺς τὰς δίκας ἅς μοι ἐνεκάλουν” D.40.19.
2. abs., get clear off, be acquitted, opp. ἁλίσκομαι, Hdt.2.174, Pl.Ap.35c, D.18.103; “κἂν . . εἰσέλθῃ φεύγων οὐκ ἀποφεύγει” Ar.V.579.
3. of a woman in child-birth, bring to birth, “ἀ. τὸ παιδίον ἐν τῷ τόκῳ” Hp.Mul.1.25; also ἀ. τοῦ παιδίου ib.33: intr., “ἢν τὰ ὕστερα μὴ δύνηται ἀποφυγεῖν” Id.Nat.Mul. 56.
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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