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ἀφελόμενος (aphelomenos)

ἀφελόμενος is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφαιρέω, meaning “take away, remove”. It is the aorist middle participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 113 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 24.1: … φυγόντες ἐκ τῆς ἐπʼ Ἀλίᾳ μάχης ἐν Οὐηΐοις ἦσαν καὶ ὠδύροντο κατὰ σφᾶς αὐτούς, οἷον ἡγεμόνα τῆς Ῥώμης ὁ δαίμων ἀφελόμενος Ἀρδεάτας ἐκόσμησε τοῖς Καμίλλου κατορθώμασιν, ἡ δὲ γειναμένη καὶ θρέψασα τοιοῦτον ἄνδρα πόλις οἴχεται καὶ ἀπό …

Aristophanes, Wasps 1380: ἀφελόμενός σε καὶ νομίσας εἶναι σαπρὸν

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 1.155: Ἀφελόμενος δὲ τοῦ ἔθνους καὶ τὰς ἐν κοίλῃ Συρίᾳ πόλεις, ἃς εἷλον, ὑπέταξεν τῷ κατʼ ἐκεῖνο Ῥωμαίων στρατηγῷ κατατεταγμένῳ …

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.