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ἀποδύω

ἀποδύω, ἀποδύω, (act. and 1st aor.) strip off (someone else's armor or clothes); (mid. and 2nd aor.) take off (one's own clothes), undress

ἀπο-δύω,
    • I in fut. -δύσω, aor. 1 -έδῡσα (for pf. -δέδῡκα v. infr. II.1), trans. used by Hom. (esp. in Il.) of stripping armour from the slain,
      • 1 c. acc. rei, strip off, τεύχεα δʼ Ἕκτωρ δηώσας ἀπέδυσε Il. 18.83, cf. 4.532, etc.; ἀπὸ μὲν φίλα εἵματα δύσω 2.261; ἀ. τί τινος Pl. Chrm. 154e.
      • 2 c. acc. pers., strip, ἀπέδυσε τὰς . . γυναῖκας Hdt. 5.92.ηʹ, cf. Pl. Epigr. 29.3 Diehl; ἵνα μὴ ῥιγῶν ἀποδύη (sc. τοὺς ὁδοιπόρους) Ar. Av. 712, cf. Th. 636, Ec. 668: c. dupl. acc., τὴν ἐσθῆτά τινα ἀ. Luc. Nigr. 13:—Pass., to be stripped of oneʼs clothes, οὔ τοι τοῦτον ἀποδυθήσομαι (sc. τὸν τρίβωνα) Ar. V. 1122; ἵνα μή ποτε κἀποδυθῇ μεθύων Id. Ra. 715, cf. Pl. 930; θοἰμάτιον ἀποδεδύσθαι Lys. 10.10; ἀποδυόμενος stripped of its shell, of the nautilus, Arist. HA 622b18.
    • II Med., fut. -δύσομαι: aor. 1 -εδυσάμην Od. 5.349 (v.l.), Pl. R. 612a (v.l.), Lys. Fr. 232S., etc.; mostly with intr. aor. 2 Act. ἀπέδυν, pf. ἀποδέδῡκα (used trans. by X. An. 5.8.23 πολλοὺς ἤδη ἀποδέδυκεν):—strip off oneself, take off, εἵματα ταῦτʼ ἀποδύς Od. 5.343; ἀπόδυθι . . θοἰμάτιον Ar. Th. 214; τῶν ἱματίων ἀποδύσας (aor. 2 part. pl. fem.) having stripped off some of them, ib. 656; σῶμʼ ἀποδυσάμενος Epigr.Gr. 403 (Galatia): metaph., ἀ. τὴν ὑπόκρισιν J. AJ 13.7.1.
      • 2 abs., ἀποδυσάμενος having stripped, v.l. for ἀπολυσάμενος, Od. 5.349; ἀποδύντες stripped naked, Th. 1.6, cf. Pl. Mx. 236d: metaph., ἀποδύεσθαι πρὸς τὸ λέγειν, εἰς ἀγορανομίαν, Plu. Dem. 6, Brut. 15; οἱ ἀποδυόμενοι εἰς τὴν παλαίστραν those who strip for the palaestra, who practise there, Lys. Fr. 45.1; εἰς τὸ γυμνάσιον IG 14.256 (Phintias); πρὸς τὸ ἀχανὲς πέλαγος Jul. Or. 4.142c; ἀποδύντες τοῖς ἀναπαίστοις ἐπίωμεν let us strip and attack the anapaests, Ar. Ach. 627, cf. Ra. 641.

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