A). ἀφέλαι GDI 4940.35 (Cret.); ἀφῄρησα Gal. 11.121 :—take away from:—Constr.: mostly ἀ. τί τινι, σῖτον μέν σφιν ἀφεῖλε took it from him, Od. 14.455 , cf. A. Eu. 360 codd., etc. (but also, relieve one of a duty, X. Cyr. 7.1.44 ): less freq. ἀ. τί τινος Ar. Pax 560 , X. Lac. 4.7 ; κῆρα χώρας A. Th. 777 (lyr.); ἔκ τινος Id. Eu. 444 ; also τινά τι prob. l. ib. 360 , S. Ph. 933 , v. infr. II. I, III: c. gen., take from, τιμῆς οὔτ’ ἀφελὼν οὔτ’ ἐπορεξάμενος Sol. 5.2 ; μηδὲν ἀφαιρῶμεν τοῦ ἀδίκου (from the unjust man) ἀπὸ τῆς ἀδικίας Pl. R. 360e ; τοῦ πλήθους diminish the number, X. Vect. 4.4 : c. acc. only, ἀπελὼν τὰ ἄχθεα having taken them off, Hdt. 1.80 ; βασιλέων .. ὀργὰς ἀφῄρουν took away, E. Med. 455 , cf. Ar. Pl. 22 , Ra. 518 .

2). set aside, κρέα SIG 1044.41 (Halic., iv B. C.).

b). exclude, separate, τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν ὡς ἓν ἀπὸ πάντων ἀφαιροῦντες χωρίς Pl. Plt. 262d ; opp. προστιθέναι, Id. Phd. 95e , etc.

3). Math., ἀ. ἀπὸ .. subtract from, Euc. Ax. 3 ( Pass.), etc.; of ratios, divide out from both sides of an equation, Apollon. Perg. 1.41 ( Pass.); intercept, in Pass., Procl. Hyp. 2.27 .

4). in Logic, abstract, c. acc., Arist. APo. 74a37 , al.: abs., Id. Metaph. 1030a33 .

II). Med., fut. ἀφαιρήσομαι (in pass. sense, v.l. for ἀπαιρε-θήσεσθαι , Hdt. 5.35 , cf. Antipho Fr. 57 ), later ἀφελοῦμαι Timostr. 5 , Plb. 3.29.7 : aor. ἀφειλόμην, later ἀφειλάμην Ph. 2.586 , D.C. 41.63 , cf. Phryn. 116 : pf. ἀφῄρημαι (in med. sense) X. Cyr. 7.5.79 (spelt ἀφείρ- Sammelb. 4309 (iii B. C.)):—from Hom. downwds. more freq. than Act., take away for oneself; also in reciprocal sense, ἀφαιρεῖσθον τύχην ye have received each the fortune of the other, E. El. 928 :—Constr. like Act., ἀφαιρεῖσθαί τί τινι, as καὶ δή μοι γέρας .. ἀφαιρήσεσθαι ἀπειλεῖς Il. 1.161 ; τί τινος 5.673 , 691 , 9.335 , Th. 3.58 , Lys. 24.13 , etc. (also τεύχεα .. ὤμοιϊν ἀφελέσθαι Il. 13.510 ); τι πρός τινος E. Tr. 1034 ; τι ἀπό τινος Ar. V. 883 ; ἔκ τινος X. Cyn. 12.9 : c. dupl. acc. rei et pers., bereave or deprive of, μήτε σὺ τόνδ’. . ἀποαίρεο κούρην Il. 1.275 , cf. Hdt. 1.71 , 7.104 ; freq. in Att. and Trag., Lys. l. c., Th. 8.74 , D. 20.46 , etc.; τέκνα ἀ. τινά E. Andr. 613 , cf. Ar. Ach. 464 : rarely c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, ἀ. τὰς κύνας τοῦ εὑρεῖν X. Cyn. 6.4 ; τῆς ἀρχῆς τινά Plu. Ant. 60 ; τὴν Ἀμαζόνα τοῦ ζωστῆρος Paus. 5.10.9 .

2). c. acc. rei, ἀ. ψήφισμα cancel or rescind, And. 2.24 ; ἀφελομένης τῆς νυκτὸς τὸ ἔργον having broken off the action, Th. 4.134 ; ἕως κελαινῆς νυκτὸς ὄμμ’ ἀφείλετο A. Pers. 428 : abs., μέχρι σκότος ἀφείλετο (sc. τὴν δίωξιν) X. HG 1.2.16 ; ἀ. τὴν μνήμην πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν D. 22.13 .

3). folld. by μή c. inf., prevent, hinder from doing, τί μ’ ἄνδρα .. ἀφείλου μὴ κτανεῖν; S. Ph. 1303 , cf. E. Tr. 1146 ; κἄκτεινας, ἤ τις συμφορά σ’ ἀφείλετο [μὴ κτεῖναι]; Id. Andr. 913 ; c. inf. Pass., τὸν τὰ ὕστερον ἀφείλετο ἀδικήματα εὐεργέτην μὴ ὀνομασθῆναι Paus. 8.52.2 ; c. inf. only, Pi. I. 1.62 : simply, obstruct, ἀρχήν Pl. Lg. 958c .

4). ἀ. τινὰ εἰς ἐλευθερίαν, Lat. vindicare in libertatem, claim as free, Pl. Lg. 914e , Isoc. 12.97 , D. 58.19 , cf. Lys. 23.10 , Aeschin. 1.62 .

III). Pass., fut. -αιρεθήσομαι E. Hel. 938 ; -ήσομαι Antipho Fr. 57 : pf. ἀφῄρημαι, Ion. ἀπαραίρημαι Hdt. 7.159 , etc.:—to be robbed or deprived of a thing, τι A. Ch. 962 (lyr.), Hdt. 3.137 , etc.; τι πρός or ὑπό τινος, Id. 1.70 , 3.65 , 7.159 ; ἀφῃρέθην τὰ ἐνέχυρα ὑπό τινος D. 47.41 ; ἐκ χερῶν ἀφῃρέθην had them taken out of my hands, E. Tr. 486 : c. inf., ἀφῃρέθη Σκίρωνος ἀκτὰς ὄμμα τοὐμὸν εἰσορᾶν was deprived of, hindered from seeing them, Id. Hipp. 1207 : less freq. μηδὲν τοῦ ἐμοῦ ὄγκου ἀφαιρεθέντος ἀλλὰ σοῦ αὐξηθέντος Pl. Tht. 155b .

2). ὁ ἀφαιρεθείς, in Law, the person from whom a slave has been claimed, Id. Lg. 915a .