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ἀπεῖναι (apeinai)

ἀπεῖναι is an Ancient Greek form of ἄπειμι, meaning “be away; go away”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.13.5: νομίσῃ τε μηδεὶς ἀλλοτρίας γῆς πέρι οἰκεῖον κίνδυνον ἕξειν. ᾧ γὰρ δοκεῖ μακρὰν ἀπεῖναι ἡ Λέσβος, τὴν ὠφελίαν αὐτῷ ἐγγύθεν παρέξει. οὐ γὰρ ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ ἔσται ὁ πόλεμος, ὥς τις οἴεται, ἀλλὰ δι’ ἣν ἡ Ἀττικὴ ὠφελεῖται.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 293: … πείρας ἡγούμεθά σε ἱκανῶς ἐγνωκέναι. ὅθεν καὶ μέγα ποιούμεθα τὸ ἐν λόγῳ σέ τινι τὰ καθʼ ἡμᾶς τίθεσθαι καὶ μὴ ἀπεῖναί σου τῆς διανοίας, ἀλλὰ διηνεκῶς σοι συνεῖναι διὰ τῆς μνήμης. δεῖγμα δὲ μνήμης τὸ γράφειν· ὅπερ ὅσῳ ἂν συνεχέσ …

All forms of ἄπειμι (conjugation table)

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.