Sense

1. a)postasi/ou di/kh an action against a freedman for having forsaken or slighted his prosta/ths, of divorce

Examples

• ΕΑΝ δέ τισ λάβῃ γυναῖκα καὶ συνοικήσῃ αὐτῇ, καὶ ἔσται ἐὰν μὴ εὕρῃ χάριν ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, ὅτι εὗρεν ἐν αὐτῇ ἄσχημον πρᾶγμα, καὶ γράψει αὐτῇ βιβλίον ἀποστασίου καὶ δώσει εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῆσ καὶ ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτὴν ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ αὐτοῦ, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 24:1)
• καὶ μισήσῃ αὐτὴν ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ἔσχατοσ καὶ γράψει αὐτῇ βιβλίον ἀποστασίου καὶ δώσει εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῆσ καὶ ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτὴν ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ αὐτοῦ, ἢ ἀποθάνῃ ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ ἔσχατοσ, ὃσ ἔλαβεν αὐτὴν ἑαυτῷ γυναῖκα, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 24:3)
• ΟΥΤΩΣ λέγει Κύριοσ. ποῖον τὸ βιβλίον τοῦ ἀποστασίου τῆσ μητρὸσ ὑμῶν, ᾧ ἐξαπέστειλα αὐτήν̣ ἢ τίνι ὑπόχρεῳ πέπρακα ὑμᾶσ̣ ἰδοὺ ταῖσ ἁμαρτίαισ ὑμῶν ἐπράθητε, καὶ ταῖσ ἀνομίαισ ὑμῶν ἐξαπέστειλα τὴν μητέρα ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 50:1)
• καὶ εἶδον διότι περὶ πάντων ὧν κατελήφθη, ἐν οἷσ ἐμοιχᾶτο ἡ κατοικία Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἐξαπέστειλα αὐτὴν καὶ ἔδωκα αὐτῇ βιβλίον ἀποστασίου εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῆσ. καὶ οὐκ ἐφοβήθη ἡ ἀσύνθετοσ Ἰούδα καὶ ἐπορεύθη καὶ ἐπόρνευσε καὶ αὐτή. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 3:8)
• κατὰ Ἡδύλησ ἀποστασίου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 11, chapter 12 1:9)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.