ἀποστάς (apostas)

ἀποστάς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφεστήξω, meaning “I shall stand aloof (future perfect of ἀφίστημι)”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ἀφίστημι, “cause to revolt; stand away”.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.4.167: … κατʼ ἀρχὰς μὲν φιλογράμματος ὢν παντοδαποῖς ἐπεχείρει ποιήμασιν, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ Ἄρατον ἀπεδέχετο, ζηλῶν αὐτόν. ἀποστὰς δὲ τοῦ Ζήνωνος πρὸς τοὺς Κυρηναϊκοὺς ἀπετράπη καὶ εἴς τε τὰ χαμαιτυπεῖα εἰσῄει καὶ τἄλλʼ ἀπαρακαλύπτως ἡδυπάθ …

Euripides, Helen 1023: ἐγὼ δʼ ἀποστᾶσʼ ἐκποδὼν σιγήσομαι.

Plutarch, Nicias 15.3: … τῶν πολεμίων ἐκπεριπλέων Σικελίαν θάρσος ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς, ἔπειτα προσβαλὼν Ὕβλῃ, πολιχνίῳ μικρῷ, καὶ πρὶν ἑλεῖν ἀποστάς, κομιδῇ κατεφρονήθη.

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.