ἀπονίζω
aponizo
wash off
Appears 7 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἀπονίζω, later ἀπο-νίπτω D.S 4.59, Phoc. 18, and once as v.l. in , v. infr.:—A. wash off, ἀπονίψαντες . . βρότον ἐξ ὠτειλῶν Od. 24.18), cf. Il. 7.425 (tm.):—Med., wash off from oneself, ἱδρῶ πολλὸν ἀπονίζοντο θαλάσσῃ ib.10.572. II. wash clean, esp. of the hands and feet, τὴν ἀπονίζουσα φρασάμην I perceived it (the scar) as I was washing his feet, Od. 23.75; ὅταν ἡ θυγάτηρ μʼ ἀπονίζῃ καὶ τὼ πόδʼ ἀλείφῃ V. 608, cf. Georg. 60; ἓ μὲν ἔφη ἀ. τὸν παῖδα Smp. 175a:—Med., χρῶτʼ ἀπονίπτεσθαι wash oneʼs body, v.l. in Od. 18.179, cf. 172; χεῖράς τε πόδας τε ib.22.478: abs., οἷον εἴ τις εἰς πηλὸν ἐμβὰς πηλῷ -νίζοιτο 5; wash oneʼs hands (esp. after meals, cf. ap. 9.408f), Mul. 1.89; ἐγὼ μὲν ἀποτρέχων ἀπονίψομαι Av. 1163; ἀπονίψασθαι δοτέον water to wash with, 250, cf. 136; so in pf. Pass., ἀπονενίμμεθʼ V. 1217; ἀπονενιμμένος Ec. 419; also in late Prose, v. supr.; τῆς κρήνης -νιψάμενος 3.1; but ἀπονίψασθαι τὸ πρόσωπον ἀπὸ τᾶς κράνας IG 4.951.63 (Epid.). 2. rarely of things, ἀ. τὴν κύλικα 41.
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