ἄπιθι (apithi)

ἄπιθι is an Ancient Greek form of ἄπειμι, meaning “be away; go away”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 67 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Cimon 10.9: πότερον αἱρεῖται Κίμωνα μισθωτὸν ἢ φίλον ἔχειν· τοῦ δὲ φήσαντος φίλον οὐκοῦν, φάναι, ταῦτʼ ἄπιθι μετὰ σεαυτοῦ κομίζων· χρήσομαι γὰρ αὐτοῖς ὅταν δέωμαι φίλος γενόμενος.

Lucian of Samosata, Demonax 17: … καὶ τύπον ἀπολαμβάνειν· ἧκεν οὖν τις μειρακίσκος ὡραῖος αὐτὸς ἀπολωλεκέναι λέγων. ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐδὲν ὑγιὲς ἔλεγεν, Ἄπιθι, ἔφη, ὦ παῖ, καὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ δακτύλιον φύλαττε, τοῦτον γὰρ οὐκ ἀπολώλεκας.

Epictetus, Discourses 3.5.13: — ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ κλιναρίου κομψοῦ ἐν οἴκῳ κατεκείμην. — ἄπιθί σου ἐπὶ τὸ κλινάριον· ἢ ὑγιαίνων ἄξιος εἶ ἐπὶ τοιούτου κατακεῖσθαι. μὴ τοίνυν ἀπόλλυε, ἃ δύνασαι ἐκεῖ ποιεῖν.

All forms of ἄπειμι (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.