ἀφείλοντο (apheilonto)

ἀφείλοντο is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφαιρέω, meaning “take away, remove”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist middle indicative.

Found 69 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.90.6: καὶ τῶν νεῶν τινὰς ἀναδούμενοι εἷλκον κενάς (μίαν δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀνδράσιν εἷλον ἤδη), τὰς δέ τινας οἱ Μεσσήνιοι παραβοηθήσαντες καὶ ἐπεσβαίνοντες ξὺν τοῖς ὅπλοις ἐς τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ ἐπιβάντες ἀπὸ τῶν καταστρωμάτων μαχόμενοι ἀφείλοντο ἑλκομένας ἤδη.

Demosthenes, Against Stephanus I 49: ἐγὼ γὰρ ἀξιῶ, οὓς μὲν ἀφείλοντό μʼ ἐλέγχους περὶ τῶν ἐγκλημάτων, οὓς προσῆκον ἦν ῥηθῆναι, μὴ ζητεῖν αὐτοὺς νῦν, αἷς δʼ ἀφείλοντο μαρτυρίαις, …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 46.39.3: … τε συνεξετασθέντας αὐτῷ πάντας ἔν τε πολεμίων μοίρᾳ ἐνόμισαν καὶ τὰς οὐσίας, ὥσπερ που καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ ἐκείνου, ἀφειλοντο·

All forms of ἀφαιρέω (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.