ἀπονωτίζω
From LSJ
διὰ νήσων τὸν πλόον ἐποιεῦντο → they kept sailing through the islands
English (LSJ)
A turn one's back and flee, S.Fr.713; trans. in causal sense, ἀ. τινὰς φυγῇ E.Ba.763.
German (Pape)
[Seite 317] den Rücken abkehren, wie Hesych. aus Soph. frg. 638 ἀπενώτισαν erkl.: ἀπέστρεψαν τὰ νῶτα; dah. φυγῇ τινα, Elnen in die Flucht schlagen, Eur. Bacch. 762.