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ἀπονεύω ,
A.bend away from other objects towards one, turn off or incline towards, “εἰς τοὐπίσω” Plb.3.79.7; “σκηναὶ ἀπονενευκυῖαι πρὸς ἓν μέρος τῆς πόλεως” Id.15.29.2: metaph., “πρὸς τὴν γεωμετρίαν” Pl.Tht. 165a; “πρὸς τὸ δικολογεῖν” Arist.Rh.1355a20; “πρός τινα” Plb.21.6.4; “ἐπὶ τὴν ἁρπαγήν” Id.16.6.7; “ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀληθοῦς” Arr.Epict.4.10.2.
II. abs., hang the head, of barley, Thphr.CP3.22.2.
III. Astron., pass away from a cardinal point, Vett.Val.95.1.
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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