ἀφῃροῦντο (apherounto)

ἀφῃροῦντο is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφαιρέω, meaning “take away, remove”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 5.1: … ὸν δῆμον ἐστασίασε πολλὰ καί δεινὰ πάσχειν ὑπὸ τῶν δανειστῶν δοκοῦντα. τοὺς μὲν γὰρ κεκτημένους μέτρια πάντων ἀφῃροῦντο τῶν ὄντων ἐνεχυρασμοῖς καί πράσεσι, τοὺς δὲ παντελῶς ἀπόρους αὐτοὺς ἀπῆγον καί τὰ σώματα καθείργνυσαν αὐτῶν, …

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 2.19.140: … ρια οὐδʼ ἡγούμενος δεῖν ἀμείβεσθαι διʼ ἀδικημάτων. τῶν δὲ πολεμίῳν ὅτε κρατήσαιεν, οὐδὲ τούτων ἅπασαν τὴν γῆν ἀφηροῦντο, ἀλλὰ ἐμερίζοντο καὶ ἐς τὸ μέρος ᾤκιζον τοὺς ἐστρατευμένους, φύλακας εἶναι τῶν πεπολεμηκότων· καὶ οὐκ ἀρκούση …

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.