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ἀφορ-άω , Ion. ἀφορ-έω , fut. ἀπόψομαι: aor. ἀπεῖδον:—
A.look away from all others at one, have in view, Hdt.8.37; look at, τι Lycurg.17; of a distant object, D.Ep.2.20; “πρός τι” Th.7.71; “τι πρός τι” compare, Pl. R.585a; ἀ. ὅθεν . . look to the point whence . . , ib.584d; εἴς τι or τινα, Plu.Lyc.7, Luc.Philops.30; “εἰς τὸν θεόν” Arr.Epict.2.19.29; “εἰς τὸν Ἰησοῦν” Ep.Hebr.12.2: hence, obey, Nic.Dam.p.22 D.; “ἐπί τινα” Plu.Cat.Mi.52; “πρός τινα” Id.Cat.Ma.19, Arr.Epict.3.24.16:—in Med., Ar.Nu. 281.
b. of Places, look towards, “εἰς βόρειον ὠκεανόν” App.Praef.3,cf. Philostr.Im.Prooem.
2. to view from a place, “ἀπὸ δενδρέου” Hdt.4.22; “πόρρωθεν ἀπιδών” Timocl.21.6.
II. rarely, look away, have the back turned, prob. in Thphr.HP4.16.6; “ἀφορῶντας παίειν” X.Cyr.7.1.36.
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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