ἀποστρέφω
I. "to turn" one "back", i. e. either "to turn to flight, put to flight", Hom.; or "to turn" him "back from" flight, Xen.; πόδας καὶ χεῖρας "to twist back" the hands and feet so as to bind them, Od.; so τὸν αὐχένα Hdt.:— "to turn back, avert" one's face, Od., Eur.: "to bring back, recall", Xen.
2. "to turn away, to divert" the course of a river, Hdt.: "to avert" a danger, Aesch., Thuc.
II. intr. (sub. ἑαυτόν, ἵππον, ναῦν, etc.), "to turn back", Hdt., Soph.
B. Pass., ἀπεστράφθαι τοὺς ἐμβόλους, of ships, "to have" their beaks "bent back", Hdt.; ἀποστραφῆναι τὼ πόδε "to have" one's feet "twisted", Ar.
II. "to turn away from", in abhorrence, Lat. aversari, c. acc., Soph., Eur.; absol., ἀπεστραμμένοι λόγοι "hostile" words, Hdt.
2. "to turn oneself about, turn back", Xen.; "to turn and flee", id=Xen.
3. ἀποστραφῆναί τινος "to fall off from" one, "desert" him, id=Xen.