Ἀπενιαυτίσαι
to go away for a year
Translated by Jennifer Benedict29 Jan 2001Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to be banished from one's homeland for a year for some wrong-doings.
"They say that Apollonius of Tyana went away for a year to the Scythian people, because he had experienced a disappointment in love."1
And elsewhere about Heracles: "[that] having gone away for a year, as was customary, out of [the community] and been purified, he returned to Athens."2
"They say that Apollonius of Tyana went away for a year to the Scythian people, because he had experienced a disappointment in love."1
And elsewhere about Heracles: "[that] having gone away for a year, as was customary, out of [the community] and been purified, he returned to Athens."2