ἀπολύω
I. "to loose from", τί τινος Od.: "to undo", id=Od.
2. "to set free from, release or relieve from", τινὰ τῆς φρουρῆς, τῆς ἐπιμελείας Hdt., Xen.; τι ἀπό τινος Plat.:—Pass. "to be set free from", Thuc.
3. in legal sense, ἄπ. τῆς αἰτίης "to acquit" of the charge, Hdt., Xen.:—c. inf., ἀπ. τινὰ μὴ φῶρα εἶναι "to acquit" one "of being" a thief, Hdt.: then absol. "to acquit", Ar.
II. "to let go free on receipt of ransom, hold to ransom", Il.:—Mid. "to ransom, redeem", χρυσοῦ "by payment of" gold, id=Il.
III. "to discharge or disband" an army, Xen.:—generally, "to dismiss", Ar.
2. "to divorce" a wife, NTest.
B. Mid. "to redeem", v. supr. II.
II. "to do away with" charges "against one", Lat. diluere, Thuc., Plat.:— absol., ἀπολυόμενος "in defence", Hdt.
III. like Pass. (c. II), "to depart", Soph.
C. Pass. "to be released, let off", τῆς στρατηΐης "from" military service, Hdt.; τῆς ἀρχῆς ἀπολυθῆναι "to be freed from" their rule, Thuc.:—absol. "to be acquitted, discharged", id=Thuc., Plat.
II. of combatants, "to be separated, part", Thuc.
2. "to depart", Soph.