A.sum), impf. ἀπῆν (later “ἀπήμην” POxy.1204.23 (iii A.D.)), 2sg. “ἀπῆσθα” S.Ph.379; Ep. “ἀπέην” Il.20.7, 3pl. ἄπεσαν ib.10.357: fut. “ἀπέσομαι” Ar.Nu.887; Ep. “ἀπέσσομαι” Od.8.150, 3sg. ἀπεσσεῖται ib.19.302:—to be away or far from, c. gen., ὁππότε πάτρης ἧς ἀπέῃσιν ἀνήρ ib.169, cf. 20.155,al.; “ἐὰν δ᾽ ἀπῇ τούτων τὸ χαίρειν” S. Ant.1169; “ἀ. ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων” Th.1.141: c. dat., “φίλοισιν” E.Med.179 (lyr.), cf. Tr.393, Hdt.4.1, Th.2.61, etc.: but mostly,
2. abs., to be away or absent, and of things, to be wanting, οἵ τ᾽ ὄντες οἵ τ᾽ ἀπόντες, i.e. all that are, every one, S.Ant.1109; “τὰς οὔσας τέ μου καὶ τὰς ἀπούσας ἐλπίδας” Id.El.306; of the dead, v.l. in E.Hec.312; τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπεόντος the god not being counted, Hdt.6.53:—in 3pl. impf., ἀπῆσαν and ἀπῇσαν are freq. confused in codd., as in Th.4.42.