ἀφόρητον (aphoreton)

ἀφόρητον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφοράω, meaning “look away; look to”.

It can also be a form of ἀφόρητος, “unendurable; irresistible”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective or accusative singular adjective.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Tiberius and Caius Gracchus Caius.6.2: … βουλὴν ἀποδομένην τὸν σῖτον ἀναπέμψαι ταῖς πόλεσι τὸ ἀργύριον, καὶ προσεπαιτιάσασθαι τὸν Φάβιον ὡς ἐπαχθῆ καὶ ἀφόρητον ποιοῦντα τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐφʼ ᾧ μεγάλην ἔσχε δόξαν μετὰ εὐνοίας ἐν ταῖς ἐπαρχίαις.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 9.2: Οὐ γὰρ ἀκήκοας, ὦ Τειρεσία, τῆς Εὐριπίδου Μηδείας, οἷα εἶπεν οἰκτείρουσα τὸ γυναικεῖον, ὡς ἀθλίας οὔσας καὶ ἀφόρητόν τινα τὸν ἐκ τῶν ὠδίνων πόνον ὑφισταμένας; ἀτὰρ εἰπέ μοι,— ὑπέμνησε γάρ με τὰ τῆς Μηδείας ἰαμβεῖα—καὶ ἔτεκές π …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 161·2: … νον τὴν δύναμιν μὴ ὀδύρου. εἰ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸς ἦς ὁ μέλλων φέρειν τὸ βάσταγμα τοῦτο, οὐδὲ οὕτως ἂν ἦν βαρύ, ἀλλʼ ἀφορητὸν παντελῶς. εἰ δὲ Κύριος ὁ συνδιαφέρων, Ἐπίρριψον ἐπὶ Κύριον τὴν μέριμνάν σου, καὶ αὐτὸς ποιήσει. μόνον ἐκεῖνο …

All forms of ἀφοράω (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.