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ἁφῆς (haphes)

ἁφῆς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφίημι, meaning “send away, release, let go”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active subjunctive.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.28: … Νεοκλῆς πρὸς Θεμίσταν. Συμπόσιον. Εὐρύλοχος πρὸς Μητρόδωρον. Περὶ τοῦ ὁρᾶν. Περὶ τῆς ἐν τῇ ἀτόμῳ γωνίας. Περὶ ἁφῆς. Περὶ εἱμαρμένης. Περὶ παθῶν δόξαι πρὸς Τιμοκράτην. Προγνωστικόν. Προτρεπτικός. Περὶ εἰδώλων. Περὶ φαντασίας. …

Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur 31: … ροσεκτέον αὐτῷ, ὅπως γε μὴ θρασεῖς ὦσιν οἱ ἐχθροί. ποῦ γὰρ ἔστι τούτοις τὸ στόμα διᾶραι, τί δὲ προσειπεῖν, ἂν ἀφῇς ταῦτα καὶ ῥίψῃς ἐφʼ οἷς κακῶς ἀκούεις; γίγνεται γὰρ οὕτω τὸ μὲν λυπηρὸν τοῦ λοιδοροῦντος, τὸ δʼ ὠφέλιμον τοῦ …

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.