ἀπολείπεσθαι (apoleipesthai)

ἀπολείπεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπολιμπάνω, meaning “leave behind, abandon”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

It can also be a form of ἀπολείπω, “leave behind, abandon”.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 35: οἷον πατρῴας μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι χθονός.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.24.3: … ναι, καὶ πολλὰ ἐφέστια ὅλα ἐξηλείφθη μέρους αὐτῶν μεθισταμένου· οὐ γὰρ ἐδικαίουν οἱ προσήκοντες τοῖς ἐξιοῦσιν ἀπολείπεσθαί τε τῶν φιλτάτων καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἐχθίστοις ὑπομένειν.

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.