ἀπιδών (apidon)

ἀπιδών is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπεἶδον, meaning “look away from other things at”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 23.6: … ραχθείσης, ἀλλʼ ἔκβασιν ζητῶν, αὖθις ἔρριψεν ἑαυτὸν εἰς Ἰταλίαν. λέγεται δ’ ἀπαλλαττόμενος ἤδη πρὸς τὴν νῆσον ἀπιδὼν εἰπεῖν τοῖς περὶ αὐτὸν οἵαν ἀπολείπομεν, ὦ φίλοι, Καρχηδονίοις καὶ Ῥωμαίοις παλαίστραν. καὶ τοῦτο μέν, ὥσπερ …

Lucian of Samosata, Icaromenippus 23: ὁ δὲ Ζεὺς μάλα φοβερῶς, δριμύ τε καὶ τιτανῶδες εἰς ἐμὲ ἀπιδών, φησί Τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν, πόθι τοι πόλις ἠδὲ τοκῆες; Ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς τοῦτʼ ἤκουσα„ μικροῦ μὲν ἐξέθανον ὑπὸ τοῦ δέ …

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.