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ἀποριῶν (aporion)

ἀποριῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπορία, meaning “difficulty, lack of means”.

It can also be a form of ἀφορίζω, “set apart, define, separate”. It is the future active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lucullus 11.1: … ηνοὶ διαφεύγοντες τὴν πολιορκίαν. ταχὺ δʼ ἐξερρύη τὸ φιλότιμον αὐτοῦ καὶ φιλόνεικον ἐν αἰσθήσει γενομένου τῶν ἀποριῶν, αἷς οἱ στρατιῶται συνείχοντο, καὶ τῶν ἀνθρωποφαγιῶν, ἅτε δὴ μὴ θεατρικῶς μηδʼ ἐπιδεικτικῶς Λουκούλλου πολεμο …

All forms of ἀπορία (declension 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.