ἀπολείπεται (apoleipetai)

ἀπολείπεται is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπολιμπάνω, meaning “leave behind, abandon”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.85: … σιν· οὔτε γὰρ ἀλλοτριῶσαι εἰκὸς ἦν αὐτὸ 〈αὑτῷ〉 τὸ ζῷον, οὔτε ποιήσασαν αὐτό, μήτʼ ἀλλοτριῶσαι μήτʼ οἰκειῶσαι. ἀπολείπεται τοίνυν λέγειν συστησαμένην αὐτὸ οἰκειῶσαι πρὸς ἑαυτό· οὕτω γὰρ τά τε βλάπτοντα διωθεῖται καὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα προσίε …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene 18: … ἀνθηρὰν δὲ καὶ θεατρικὴν ἐκ παντὸς ἀξιῶν εἶναι τὴν διάλεκτον, ὡς τῆς ἡδονῆς ἅπαν ἐχούσης ἐν λόγοις τὸ κράτος, ἀπολείπεταί ποτε τοῦ πρέποντος. οὐχ ἅπαντα δέ γε τὰ πράγματα τὴν αὐτὴν ἀπαιτεῖ διάλεκτον, ἀλλʼ ἔστιν ὥσπερ σώμασι πρέπουσ …

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.