Ἀπωστός
driven away, thrust away
Translated by Jennifer Benedict12 Aug 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] one who has been banished.
Sophocles [writes]: "in the end I will be thrust away, driven from the land"; Teucer says [this] about the slain Ajax. "Marked as a slave instead of a free man by [his] words."1
And elsewhere: "previously having been a man driven away out of Athens by Theseus."2
Also [sc. attested is the neuter]a)pwsto/n , something driven/thrust away.
Sophocles [writes]: "in the end I will be thrust away, driven from the land"; Teucer says [this] about the slain Ajax. "Marked as a slave instead of a free man by [his] words."1
And elsewhere: "previously having been a man driven away out of Athens by Theseus."2
Also [sc. attested is the neuter]