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.
- ὡσ δὲ καὶ τούτων ἡ Κάτωνοσ ἀρετὴ καὶ δόξα περιῆν, ὑπ’ αἰδοῦσ τῶν πολλῶν ἐν δεινῷ πολλῷ τιθεμένων ἀποδόσθαι Κάτωνα ταῖσ ψήφοισ, ὃν καλῶσ εἶχε πρίασθαι τῇ πόλει στρατηγόν, ἥ τε πρώτη κληθεῖσα τῶν φυλῶν ἐκεῖνον ἀπέδειξεν, ἐξαίφνησ ὁ Πομπήϊοσ βροντῆσ ἀκηκοέναι ψευσάμενοσ αἴσχιστα διέλυσε τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, εἰθισμένων ἀφοσιοῦσθαι τὰ τοιαῦτα καὶ μηδὲν ἐπικυροῦν διοσημίασ γενομένησ. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 42 3:1)
- εὐθὺσ γὰρ εἰσ τὸν ποταμὸν ῥιφῆναι καὶ γεύσασθαι τόν τε λεπιδωτὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν φάγρον καὶ τὸν ὀξύρυγχον, οὓσ μάλιστα τῶν ἰχθύων ἀφοσιοῦσθαι· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 18 6:1)
- προσήκοντα ἐγκαλεῖν τοὺσ ἐνόχουσ ταῖσ αἰτίαισ συλλαβόντασ ἐκδότουσ τοῖσ ἀδικηθεῖσι παραδιδόναι τά τε περὶ τοὺσ πρεσβευτὰσ ἀδικήματα δικάζειν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὰσ συνθήκασ ὅσια φυλάττειν εἰρήνην τε ποιεῖσθαι καὶ γεγενημένην, ἐὰν μὴ κατὰ τοὺσ ἱεροὺσ δόξῃ πεπρᾶχθαι νόμουσ, ἀκυροῦν καὶ τὰσ τῶν στρατηγῶν παρανομίασ, ὅσαι περί τε ὁρ́κουσ καὶ σπονδὰσ ἐπιτελοῦνται, διαγινώσκοντασ ἀφοσιοῦσθαι, περὶ ὧν κατὰ τοὺσ οἰκείουσ καιροὺσ ποιήσομαι τον λόγον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 72 7:2)
- καρδίαν καὶ ἐγκέφαλον, ἀρχὴν ἡγούμενοσ γενέσεωσ ἀφοσιοῦσθαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 4:1)
- "τὸ δ’ ὑειόν κρέασ οἱ ἄνδρεσ ἀφοσιοῦσθαι δοκοῦσιν, ὅτι μάλιστα οἱ βάρβαροι τὰσ ἐπιλευκίασ καὶ λέπρασ δυσχεραίνουσι, καὶ τῇ προσβολῇ τὰ τοιαῦτα καταβόσκεσθαι πάθη τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ οἰόνται. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 6:7)
Synonyms
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to purify oneself from sins of negligence
- ἀφαγνίζω (to purify, to purify oneself by offerings)