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ἀπηλλάχθαι (apellachthai)

ἀπηλλάχθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπαλλαξείω, meaning “be eager to be rid of; wish to leave (desiderative)”. It is the perfect middle/passive infinitive.

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

Found 110 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.143.3: ‘καὶ τὰ μὲν Πελοποννησίων ἔμοιγε τοιαῦτα καὶ παραπλήσια δοκεῖ εἶναι, τὰ δὲ ἡμέτερα τούτων τε ὧνπερ ἐκείνοις ἐμεμψάμην ἀπηλλάχθαι καὶ ἄλλα οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἴσου μεγάλα ἔχειν.

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.