Ἀποστολαί

[Meaning] discharges, gifts.¹
Also [sc. attested is] a)po/stolos, the man sent out with an army in preparation for war.
"Shattering some of the boats with their dispatches".² That is, with their discharges.
Also [sc. attested is] a)postello/menoi ["dispatched-out men"]: not only those sent out on the basis of orders of dismissal, but also those who had been dismissed and were intending to go abroad were called 'dispatched-out'.
Also² [sc. attested are] a)postolei=s, the men assigned to the sending-out of triremes. But a)po/stoloi [are] the sendings-out of the ships. So Demosthenes, both in the [speech] For Ktesiphon and in the First Philippic.⁴