ἀπασχολέω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[leave]] one [[no leisure]], [[keep]] him [[employed]], <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Philops.</span> 14</span>, <span class="bibl">Hld.2.21</span>:—Pass., to [[be wholly occupied]] or [[engrossed]], so as to attend to nothing else, περί τινα <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Charid.</span>19</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Olymp. <span class="title">in Mete.</span> 108.22</span>; [[τινί]] ib.<span class="bibl">107.13</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. ἐπὶ τῆς ἀλλοδαπῆς</b> to [[be absent]] on foreign service, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>71 ii 8</span> (iv A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">τῆς συνεχείας τῶν φυτῶν ἀπασχολούσης ἐς ἑαυτὴν τὰ βέλη</b> [[rendering]] them [[of none effect]], <span class="bibl">Hdn.7.2.5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b3">ἀ. τινὰ τῶν ἡδίστων</b> [[detain]] him <b class="b2">from .</b>., <span class="bibl">Hld. 10.23</span>.</span>