ἀφιέναι (aphienai)

ἀφιέναι is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφίημι, meaning “send away, release, let go”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 121 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.103.2: ἦν δέ τι καὶ χρηστήριον τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις Πυθικὸν πρὸ τοῦ, τὸν ἱκέτην τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ἰθωμήτα ἀφιέναι.

Hippocrates, De ulceribus 24: … μὴ φλάσμα αἴτιόν ἐστι, καὶ ἤν που ἄλλοθι τοῦ σώματος τοιοῦτόν τι γίνηται, ὁ αὐτὸς λόγος. ἀλλὰ τοῦ αἵματος χρὴ ἀφίεναι, μάλιστα μὲν κατὰ φλέβας τὰς ἐπιῤῥεούσας, ἢν καταφανέες ἔωσιν· ἢν δὲ μὴ, κατακρούειν τὰ οἰδήματα βαθύτερα καὶ …

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.