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|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">leave</b> one <b class="b2">no leisure, keep</b> him <b class="b2">employed</b>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Philops.</span> 14</span>, <span class="bibl">Hld.2.21</span>:—Pass., <b class="b2">to be wholly occupied</b> or <b class="b2">engrossed</b>, 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>; <b class="b3">τινί</b> ib.<span class="bibl">107.13</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. ἐπὶ τῆς ἀλλοδαπῆς</b> <b class="b2">to be absent</b> 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> <b class="b2">rendering</b> them <b class="b2">of none effect</b>, <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> <b class="b2">detain</b> him <b class="b2">from .</b>., <span class="bibl">Hld. 10.23</span>.</span>

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