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ἄφετ-ος , ον, (ἀφίημι)
A.let loose, ranging at large, esp. of sacred flocks that were free from work, “ἄ. ἀλᾶσθαι γῆς ἐπ᾽ ἐσχάτοις ὅροις” A.Pr.666; “ἀφέτων ὄντων ταύρων ἐν τῷ . . ἱερῷ” Pl. Criti.119d; “νέμονται ὥσπερ ἄφετοι” Id.Prt.320a, cf. R.498c, Isoc.5.127, Call.Del.36.
II. of persons, dedicated, free from worldly business, E.Ion822, Plu.2.768b; [“γένη] ἀπόλυτα καὶ ἄ.” Iamb.Myst.1.8; “ἄ. παντὸς τοῦ δεινοῦ” Max.Tyr.3.9.
2. of things, “ἄ. ἡμέραι” holidays, Poll.1.36; νομὴ ἄ. free range, of horses, Plu.Lys.20; “ὁρμαί” Ph.2.380, cf. Plu.2.12a; “δρόμοι” Id.Cleom.34; “ἐξουσία τοῦ λέγειν” Phld.Herc.862.10; “κακουργίαι” Id.Piet.21; “τὸ ἄ. τῆς κόμης” Luc.Dom.7; “τοῦ λόγου” Hermog.Id.1.6. Adv. “-τως, ὁρμᾶν” freely, Ph.1.135, cf. Dam.Pr.307; “ἀπολαύει” Phld.D.3Fr.89.
3. of style, rambling, prolix, Luc.Tox. 56.
III. Ἀφέται, pr. n., the place whence the Argonauts loosed their ship, Hdt.7.193.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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