ἀφέτης

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English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ, (

   A ἀφίημἰ one who lets off a military engine, Plb.4.56.3.    b teacher of ballistic, IG2.465.22.    c starter in races, POxy.152.1 (vii A.D.).    2 Astrol., prorogator, heavenly body which determines the vital quadrant, Ptol.Tetr.131.    II Pass., a freed-slave among the Spartans, Myro2.

German (Pape)

[Seite 409] ὁ, 1) der Loslassende, der Schleuderer beim Wurfgeschütz, Pol. 4, 56. – 2) der Freigelassene bei den Lacedämoniern, bei Ath. VI, 271 f.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἀφέτης: του, ὁ (ἀφίημι) ὁ ῥίπτων, ὁ ἐκσφενδονῶν, ἔτι δὲ λιθοφόρους τέτταρας, καὶ πρός, τοὺς ἀφέτας τούτοις, τοὺς καταλλήλους ἀνθρώπους πρὸς τὸ ἐκσφενδονᾶν διὰ τῶν μηχανῶν τὰς πέτρας, Πολύβ. 4. 56, 3. 2) ἀστρολογ. ὅρος ἐπί τινων ουρανίων σωμάτων, Πτολ. ΙΙ. Παθ., δοῦλος ἀπελεύθερος ἐν Σπάρτῃ, «πολλάκις..., ἠλευθέρωσαν Λακεδαιμόνιοι δούλους· καὶ οὓς μὲν ἀφέτας ἐκάλεσαν, οὓς δὲ ἀδεσπότους, οὓς δὲ ἐρυκτῆρας» Μύρων παρ’ Ἀθην. 271F.