ἀπαλλαγῆναι (apallagenai)

ἀπαλλαγῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπαλλαξείω, meaning “be eager to be rid of; wish to leave (desiderative)”.

It can also be a form of ἀπαλλάσσω, “set free, remove; (mid.) depart, get away”. It is the aorist passive infinitive.

Found 111 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94.2: … ατηγὸν τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀποτειχίζειν αὐτούς, νομίζοντες ῥᾳδίως γ᾽ ἂν ἐκπολιορκῆσαι καὶ πόλεως αἰεὶ σφίσι πολεμίας ἀπαλλαγῆναι.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 42.28.2: παντάπασι καταψευδόμενοι. ὅθεν οἱ λοιποὶ καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο οὐχ ἥκιστα ἐκακοπάθουν, ὅτι μήτε προσολοφύρασθαι μήτʼ ἐπικοινῶσαι ἔχοντες οὐδʼ ἀπαλλαγῆναί ποτε αὐτοῦ ἐδύναντο. ἡ μὲν γὰρ πρὸς τοὺς ὁμοπαθεῖς συνουσία ἔφερέ τινα αὐτοῖς

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.