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ἀποφορ-ά , ἡ, (ἀποφέρω)
A.payment of what is due, tax, tribute, Hdt. 2.109, Plu.Thes.23, etc.: esp. money which slaves let out to hire paid to their master, “ἀποφορὰς πράττειν” X.Ath.1.11; “ἀ.κομίσασθαι” And.1.38; “φέρειν” Aeschin.1.97, Men.431; “ἀποδόντες” Id.Epit.163: generally, return, profit, rent, “ἀποφορὰν φέρειν” Arist.Pol.1264a33; “ἀποφέρειν” Plu.2.239e; “ἀ. βαλανείου” BGU362 ix 2(iii A. D.); contribution, war-tax, “ἀ. τελεῖν” Plu.Arist.24.
II. effluvia, D.H.10.53, D.S.24.12, Plu.2.647f, Aret.SA1.10; ἡ ἀ. τοῦ πυρός Sch.Il.Oxy.221 xvii8.
2. absorption of περίττωμα, Anon.Lond.Fr.1.6.
III. in Logic. = στέρησις, privation, Arist.Metaph.1046b15, cf. Alex. Aphr. adloc.
IV. right to carry away portions of sacrifice, SIG1025.46,al.,1026.4(Cos, iv/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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 97
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 38
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.109
    • Pseudo Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians, 1.11
    • Plutarch, Aristeides, 24
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.10
    • Plutarch, Theseus, 23
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 10.53
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