Hellas Alive Dictionary - αποστροφος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόστροφος

Structure: ἀποστροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)postre/fomai

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἀπόστροφος ἀποστρόφου	ἀποστροφώτερος ἀποστροφωτέρου	ἀποστροφώτατος ἀποστροφωτάτου
Adverb	ἀποστρόφως	ἀποστροφώτερον	ἀποστροφώτατα

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.

αἱ γὰρ σφοδραὶ περὶ τὰ πράγματα πτοῖαι καὶ παρ’ ἀξίαν ἐφέσεισ καὶ διώξεισ ἢ πάλιν ἀποστροφαὶ καὶ διαβολαὶ τὰσ πρὸσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἐγγεννῶσιν ὑποψίασ καὶ δυσκολίασ, ὑφ’ ὧν τὰ μὲν ἀποστερεῖσθαι τοῖσ δὲ περιπίπτειν δοκοῦμεν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 7 11:1)
καὶ αἵ τε μακραὶ ἐλάσεισ μᾶλλον ἢ αἱ πυκναὶ ἀποστροφαὶ πραύ̈νουσι τοὺσ ἵππουσ, καὶ αἱ ἡσυχαῖαι μέν, πολυχρόνιοι δὲ καθέψουσι καὶ πραύ̈νουσι καὶ οὐκ ἀνεγείρουσι τὸν θυμοειδῆ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 7:1)

turned away
- ἀπότροπος (turned away, banished)
- ἀπότροπος (turning away, averting)
- ἔξεδρος (out of, away from)

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

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