ἀφοσιόω
ο-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἀφοσιόω
Structure:
ἀπ
(Prefix)
+
ὁσιό
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to purify from guilt or pollution
- to purify oneself from sins of negligence, to make expiatory offerings
- to acquit oneself of, to quit oneself, quitting oneself of the orders
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- ἃ δ’ ἐν τῇ παλινῳδίᾳ τὸν ἔρωτα ἀφοσιούμενοσ αὖθισ ὁ Σωκράτησ εἴρηκεν ἐνθένδε ἀρξάμενοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 7 3:2)
- οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸσ τὸν λόγον ἅπαξ ἀνέστη, τὴν προβολὴν ἀφοσιούμενοσ, καὶ τῶν κατηγόρων ἐλάχιστα τὸν Κίμωνα λυπήσασ ἀπεχώρησε. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 5:4)
- λέγε τοίνυν, ἔφη, αὐτῷ, ὦ Κέβησ, τἀληθῆ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐκείνῳ βουλόμενοσ οὐδὲ τοῖσ ποιήμασιν αὐτοῦ ἀντίτεχνοσ εἶναι ἐποίησα ταῦτα ‐ ᾔδη γὰρ ὡσ οὐ ῥᾴδιον εἰή ‐ ἀλλ’ ἐνυπνίων τινῶν ἀποπειρώμενοσ τί λέγοι, καὶ ἀφοσιούμενοσ εἰ ἄρα πολλάκισ ταύτην τὴν μουσικήν μοι ἐπιτάττοι ποιεῖν. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 23:1)
- "αὐτῷ, ὦ Κέβησ, τἀληθῆ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐκείνῳ βουλόμενοσ οὐδὲ τοῖσ ποιήμασιν αὐτοῦ ἀντίτεχνοσ εἶναι ἐποίησα ταῦτα ᾔδη γὰρ ὡσ οὐ ῥᾴδιον εἰή, ἀλλ’ ἐνυπνίων τινῶν ἀποπειρώμενοσ τί λέγοι, καὶ ἀφοσιούμενοσ εἰ πολλάκισ ταύτην τὴν μουσικήν μοι ἐπιτάττοι ποιεῖν οὕτω δὴ πρῶτον μὲν εἰσ τὸν θεὸν ἐποίησα οὗ ἧν ἡ παροῦσα θυσία, μετὰ δὲ τὸν θεόν, ἐννοήσασ ὅτι τὸν ποιητὴν δεοί, εἴπερ μέλλοι ποιητὴν εἶναι, ποιεῖν μύθουσ ἀλλ’ οὐ λόγουσ, καὶ αὐτὸσ οὐκ ἦ μυθολογικόσ, διὰ ταῦτα δὴ οὓσ προχείρουσ εἶχον μύθουσ καὶ ἠπιστάμην τοὺσ Αἰσώπου, τούτων ἐποίησα οἷσ πρώτοισ ἐνέτυχον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section13)
- καθιζέτω τῶν γειτόνων τὸν ἐγγύτατα ὁ προσήκων γένει, ἀφοσιούμενοσ ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ τε καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆσ συγγενείασ ὅλησ, τὸ δὲ ὀφλὸν ἐξορίζειν, καθάπερ ἐρρήθη τὸ τῶν ζῴων γένοσ. (Plato, Laws, book 9 133:1)
Synonyms
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to purify oneself from sins of negligence
- ἀφαγνίζω (to purify, to purify oneself by offerings)