ἀποσχέσθαι (aposchesthai)

ἀποσχέσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπέχω, meaning “keep away; be distant; (mid.) abstain”. It is the aorist middle infinitive.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Dion 39.2: … ἦν ἀπαραίτητος ἡ τῶν πολλῶν φορά καὶ κατεῖχεν ὥσπερ ἐν πελάγει τὸ τῶν δημαγωγῶν πνεῦμα τὴν πόλιν, ἐμβολῆς μὲν ἀποσχέσθαι τοῖς ξένοις προσέταξεν, ὅσον δʼ ἐπιδραμόντων μετὰ βοῆς καὶ τοῖς ὅπλοις τιναξαμένων οὐδεὶς ἔμεινε τῶν Συρακουσ …

All forms of ἀπέχω (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.