ἀφεῖσθαι (apheisthai)

ἀφεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφίημι, meaning “send away, release, let go”. It is the perfect middle/passive infinitive.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.4.73: … τοῦ Μίκρου μητέρα καὶ Νοήμονα καὶ Δίωνα καὶ Θέωνα καὶ Εὐφράνορα καὶ Ἑρμείαν. καὶ Ἀγάθωνα δύο ἔτη παραμείναντα ἀφεῖσθαι ἐλεύθερον· καὶ τοὺς φορεαφόρους Ὠφελίωνα καὶ Ποσειδώνιον τέτταρα ἔτη παραμείναντας.

Isocrates, Trapeziticus 25: πρῶτον δʼ ἐκ τούτου σκοπεῖσθε. ὅτε γὰρ ἐδίδομεν τῷ ξένῳ τὴν συνθήκην, καθʼ ἣν οὗτος μὲν ἀφεῖσθαί φησι τῶν ἐγκλημάτων, ἐγὼ δʼ ὡς ἔδει με παρὰ τοὺτου κομίσασθαι τὸ χρυσίον, ἐκελεύομεν τὸν ξένον, ἐὰν μὲν διαλλ …

All forms of ἀφίημι (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.