A.leave over or behind, “οὐδ᾽ ἀπέλειπεν ἔγκατα” Od.9.292, cf. Heraclit.56, etc.; “κλέος καὶ φήμην” Critias 44 D.; bequeath, Test. Epict.2.3, cf. Mosch.3.97; ἀ. κληρονόμον leave as one's heir, POxy. 105.3 (ii A.D.); bequeath to posterity, of writings, D.L.8.58, cf. 7.54.
2. leave hold of, lose, “ψυχάν” Pi.P.3.101 (tm.); “βίον” S.Ph. (lyr., tm.); “νέαν ἁμέραν ἀπολιπὼν θάνοι” E.Ion720 (lyr.): conversely, “ἐμὲ μὲν ἀπολέλοιπεν ἤδη βίοτος” S.El.185 (lyr.). 3. leave behind in the race, distance: generally, surpass, X.Cyr.8.3.25, Lys.2.4; “τινὰ περί τι” Isoc.4.50:—more freq. in Med. and Pass., v. infr. 4. leave undisputed: hence, admit, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.173, Phld.Piet.17, S.E.M.7.55, D.L.7.54; “αἰτίαν νόσων ἀ. τὸ αἷμα” MenoIatr.11.43; [“ὁ Διοκλῆς] τὴν φρόνησιν περὶ τὴν καρδίαν ἀ.” Herod. Med. in Rh.Mus.49.540.5. leave, allow, “ὑπερβολὴν οὐδὲ ταῖς ἑταίραις” Jul.Or.7.210d.
II. desert, abandon, one's post, etc., οὐδ᾽ ἀπολείπουσιν κοῖλον δόμον, of bees, Il.12.169, cf. Hdt.8.41, al.; ἀ. (sc. τὴν πολιορκίην) Id.7.170; τὴν ξυμμαχίαν, τὴν ξυνωμοσίαν, Th.3.9,64; of persons, “καί σ᾽ ἀπολείψω σου λειπόμενος” E.El.1310; ξεῖνον πατρώϊον ἀ. leave him in the lurch, Thgn.521; “ἀπολιπὼν οἴχεται” Hdt.3.48, cf. 5.103, Ar.Ra. 83; of a wife, desert her husband, And.4.14, D.30.4 (not of the husband, Luc.Sol.9); of sailors, desert, “τὴν ναῦν” D.50.14.2. c. inf., ἀ. τούτους κακῶς γηράσκειν leave them to grow old, X.Oec. 1.22.3. leave undone or unsaid, “ὅσα ἀπέλιπε κτείνων τε καὶ διώκων . . σφέα ἀπετέλεσε” Hdt.5.92.“ή; ὕβρεως οὐδ᾽ ὁτιοῦν ἀ.” D.54.4, cf. Pl.R.420a; omit, συχνὰ ἀπολείπω ib.509c.
III. leave open, leave a space, “ἀ. μεταίχμιον οὐ μέγα” Hdt.6.77; “ἀ. ὡς πλέθρον” X.An. 6.5.11; μικρὸν ἀ. leaving a small interval, Hero Aut.27.1.
IV. intr., cease, fail, “τάων οὔποτε καρπὸς ἀπόλλυται οὐδ᾽ ἀπολείπει” Od.7.117; opp. γίνεται, Diog.Apoll.7; of rivers, fall, sink, Hdt.2.14,93; “ἀ. τὸ ῥέεθρον” Id.2.19; “τῆς θαλάττης τὰ μὲν ἀπολειπούσης, τὰ δ᾽ ἐπιούσης” Arist.Mete.353a22; of swallows, “δι᾽ ἔτεος ἐόντες οὐκ ἀπολείπουσι” Hdt.2.22; of youth, begin to decay, X.Smp.8.14; fail, flag, lose heart, Id.Cyr.4.2.3; of the moon, wane, Arist.APo.0.98a33.
2. c. gen., to be wanting of or in a thing, “προθυμίας οὐδὲν ἀ.” Th.8.22, cf. Pl.R. 533a: freq. of numbers, “μηδὲν ἀ. τῶν πέντε κτλ.” Id.Lg.828b; “τῶν εἴκοσιν ὀλίγον ἀ.” Arist.HA573b16, etc.; ἀπὸ τεσσέρων πηχέων ἀ. τρεῖς δακτύλους wanting three fingers of four cubits, Hdt.1.60, cf. 7.117; “μήτ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑπερβάλλων βοὸς ὁπλὴν μήτ᾽ ἀπολείπων” Hes.Op.489: c. inf., ὀλίγον ἀπέλιπον ἐς Ἀθήνας ἀπικέσθαι wanted but little of coming, Hdt.7.9.“ά; βραχὺ ἀ. διακόσιαι γενέσθαι” Th.7.70; “οὐδὲν δ᾽ ἀπολείπετε οὕτω πολεμεῖν” D.4.40; “ἡ πόλις μικρὸν ἀπέλιπεν ἔρημος εἶναι” Plu. Tim. I.
3. c. part., leave off doing, “ἀ. λέγων” X.Oec.6.1: abs., ὅθεν ἀπέλιπες from the point at which . ., Pl.Grg.497c, cf. Phd.78b, Is.5.12.
B. Med. (aor. ἀπελιπόμην in A.R.1.399 (tm.)), like Act.1.1, bequeath to posterity, Hdt.2.134 codd.; cf. ἀπολείψεται: ἐάσεται, Hsch.
C. Pass., to be left behind, stay behind, Th.7.75 (v. l. for ὑπο-) X. Cyr.1.4.20; “μόνος ἀπολελειμμένος” Antipho 1.3; to be unable to follow an argument, be at a loss, Pl.Tht.192d.
2. to be distanced by, inferior to, “ἀ. [ἀπὸ] τῶν ἄλλων θηρίων” Diocl.Fr.145; to be inferior, “ἔν τισι” Isoc.12.61.
II. to be absent or distant from, c. gen., “πολὺ τῆς ἀληθηΐης ἀπολελειμμένοι” Hdt.2.106, cf. Pl.R.475d; “ἥβας” E.HF 440 (lyr.): c. gen. pers., X.Mem.4.2.40, Pl.Smp.192d: abs., E.Or. 80, Pl.Phdr.240c; to be deprived of, “τοῦ σοῦ . . μὴ ἀπολείπεσθαι τάφου” S.El.1169; “πατρῴας μὴ ἀ. χθονός” E.Med.35; “τῶν πρὶν ἀπολειφθεὶς φρενῶν” Id.Or.216.
2. to be wanting in, fall short of, “ὅτι τοῦ σκώπτειν ἀπελείφθη” Ar.Eq.525; τοῖς ἀπολειφθεῖσι (sc. “τῆς παιδείας” D.18.128, cf. Isoc.12.209; ἀπολειφθεὶς ἠμῶν without our cognizance, D.19.36; “ἀπολειφθῆναι τῶν πραγμάτων” to be left in ignorance of . ., Id.27.2; καιροῦ ἀ. miss the opportunity, Id.34.38, cf. Isoc.3.19; θεάματος, ἑορτῆς ἀ., Luc.DMar.15.1, Sacr.1; “εἰσβολῆς” Isoc.14.31.
