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ἀπολῦσαι (apolysai)

ἀπολῦσαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπολύω, meaning “release, set free”. It is the aorist active infinitive.

Found 58 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 2.12: … ὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα ἔφη ζηλοῦν· καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνον θήλειαν ἵππον ἀγαθὴν λαβόντα κακὸν ἄνδρα καὶ πλούσιον τῆς στρατείας ἀπολῦσαι.

New Testament, John 19.10: λέγει οὖν αὐτῷ ὁ Πειλᾶτος Ἐμοὶ οὐ λαλεῖς; οὐκ οἶδας ὅτι ἐξουσίαν ἔχω ἀπολῦσαί σε καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχω σταυρῶσαί σε;

All forms of ἀπολύω (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.