ἀπόπτωσις
Ὁ κόσμος σκηνή, ὁ βίος πάροδος· ἦλθες, εἶδες, ἀπῆλθες → The world is a stage, life is your entrance: you came, you saw, you departed (Democritus fr. 115 D-K)
English (LSJ)
-εως, ἡ,
A falling off or away, ὀστέων Hp.Mochl.35; ἀνθέων Dsc.Praef.8.
2 ἀ. τῆς ἀρχῆς deposition, Ath.12.530a.
3 direction in which a force is exerted, Ph. Bel.73.7.
4 vanishing, disappearance, negation, τὸ μηδαμῶς ὂν ἀ. ἐστι τοῦ ὄντος Dam.Pr.8; eclipse, τοῦ εἰδώλου ib.433.
II declension from, καθήκοντος Chrysipp.Stoic.2.51, M.Ant.10.12, Procl.Inst.209 (pl.); τῆς εὐσεβείας Hierocl. in CA11p.442M.; κατὰ ἀπόπτωσιν, opp. κατὰ κατόρθωσιν, Herm. in Phdr.p.166A.
Spanish (DGE)
-εως, ἡ
I 1desprendimiento, caída ὀστέων Hp.Mochl.35, ἀνθέων Dsc.praef.8, ἀ. τῆς Σύρων ἀρχῆς caída del imperio sirio Clitarch.2, cf. Gr.Nyss.Hom.in Cant.55.17
•desatamiento de vendas, Hp. en Erot.25.3.
2 fuerza de retroceso de una máquina de guerra, Ph.Bel.73.7 (var.).
II 1negación, desaparición τὸ μηδαμῶς ὄν, ἀ. ἐστι τοῦ ὄντος Dam.Pr.8, τοῦ εἰδώλου Dam.in Prm.433.
2 fracaso, fallo κατὰ ἀπόπτωσιν op. κατὰ κατόρθωσιν Herm.in Phdr.130, op. τελειότης Herm.in Phdr.130, cf. Sch.Pi.O.12.17.
III abandono, incumplimiento καθήκοντος Chrysipp.Stoic.2.51, cf. M.Ant.10.12, Procl.Inst.209, τῆς εὐσεβείας Hierocl.in CA 11.26.
German (Pape)
[Seite 321] ἡ, das Abfallen, ἀνθῶν Diosc. prooem. lib. 1; τῆς ἀρχῆς, das vom Throne Gestoßensein, Ath. XII, 530 a.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀπόπτωσις: -εως, ἡ, τὸ πίπτειν ἀπό τινος, πτῶσις, «πέσιμον» αἱ δὲ τῶν ὀστέων ἀποπτώσιες ᾗ ἂν τὰ ὄρια τῆς ψιλώσεως ᾖ Ἱππ. Μοχλ. 860· ἀπ. τῆς ἀρχῆς Ἀθήν. 530Α.
