ἀφίστημι
A. Causal in pres. and imperf., in fut. ἀποστήσω, aor1 ἀπέστησα, as also in aor1 mid.:— "to put away, remove", c. acc., Aesch., etc.; ἀφ. τινὰ λόγου "to hinder from" speech, Eur.; ἀφ. τὴν ἐπιβουλήν "to frustrate" it, Thuc.; ἀφ. τὸν ἄρχοντα "to depose" him, Xen.; so in aor1 mid., δόρυ πυλῶν ἀπεστήσασθε "removed" war "from your own" gates, Eur.
2. "to make to revolt, move to revolt", Hdt., Thuc.
II. "to weigh out", Xen.:—aor1 mid., ἀποστήσασθαι χρεῖος "to weigh out" or pay the debt "in full", Il.; ἀποστήσασθαι τὸν χαλκόν "to have" the money "weighed out to one", Dem.
B. intr., in Pass., as also in aor2 act. ἀπέστην, imperat. ἀπόστηθι, ἀπόστα, perf. ἀφέστηκα in pres. sense, syncop. pl. ἀφέσταμεν, -στατε, -στᾶσι, inf. ἀφεστάναι, part. ἀφεστώς, -ῶσα, -ός or -ώς: fut. mid. ἀποστήσομαι: aor1 ἀπεστάθην [α]:— "to stand away or aloof from, keep far from", c. gen., Hom., attic; μακρὰν τόποις καὶ χρόνοις ἀφ. Diod.; ἀφεστάναι φρενῶν "to lose" one's wits, Soph.; ἀφ. πραγμάτων "to withdraw from" business, Dem., etc.
2. in Prose, "to revolt from", τινος or ἀπό τινος, Hdt., attic: absol. "to revolt", Hdt.
3. ἀφ. τινός τινι "to give up" a thing "to" another, Dem.; hence, ἀφ. τινι "to make way" for him, "give way" to him, Eur.; c. inf. "to shrink from" doing, id=Eur.
4. absol. "to stand aloof", Il., attic