A.“-εβήσετο” Il.2.35: aor. 2 ἀπέβην: pf. ἀποβέβηκα—in these tenses intr. (pres. not in Hom.):— step off from a place, νηὸς ἀ. alight, disembark from a ship, Od.13.281; ἀπὸ τῶν νεῶν, ἀπὸ τῶν πλοίων, Hdt.5.86,4.110; “ἐκ τῶν νεῶν” X.HG5.1.12:abs., disembark, Hdt.2.29, Th.1.111, etc.; “ἀ. ἐς χώρην” Hdt.7.8.β́, cf. E.Fr.705, Th.4.9, Lys.2.21; “ἐς τὴν γῆν” Th.1.100; ἐξ ἵππων ἀ. ἐπὶ χθόνα dismount from a chariot, Il.3.265, cf. 11.619; “ἵππων” 17.480; but in D.61.23 τὸ ἀποβαίνειν seems to be the art of leaping from horse to horse (cf. ἀποβάτης)“ τῇ συνωρίδι τοῦ ἀποβάντος” IG9(2).527.10 (Larissa): generally, ἀβάτων ἀποβάς having stepped off ground on which none should step, S.OC167.
2. go away, depart, Il.1.428, 5.133, etc.; “ἀπέβη πρὸς μακρὸν Ο῎λυμπον” 24.468; πρὸς δώματα, κατὰ δῶμα, Od.4.657,715; “μετ᾽ ἀθανάτους” Il.21.298: c. gen., “ἀ. πεδίων” E. Hec.140; “ἀπὸ τῆς φάτνης” X.Eq.Mag.1.16; of death, “ἀπὸ δὲ φθίμενοι βεβᾶσι” E.Andr.1022; of hopes, vanish, come to nought, Id.Ba.909 (lyr.).
II. of events, issue, result from, “τὰ ἔμελλε ἀποβήσεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς μάχης” Hdt.9.66; “τἀναντία ἀπέβη” resulted, Pl.Phlb.39a, cf. Lg. 782e; “ὅ τι ἀποβήσεται” Id.Prt.318a, etc.; τὸ ἀποβαῖνον, contr. τὠποβαῖνον, the issue, event, Hdt.2.82, etc.; τὰ ἀποβαίνοντα, τὸ ἀποβάν, the results, Th.1.83, 2.87; “τὰ ἀποβησόμενα” the probable results, Id.3.38, cf. S.E.M.5.103.
2. freq. with an Adv. or other qualifying phrase, σκοπέειν . . τὴν τελευτὴν κῇ ἀποβήσεται how it will turn out, issue, Hdt.1.32; ἀ. τῇ περ εἶπε ib.86; ἀ. κατὰ τὸ ἐόν ib.97; ἀ. παρὰ δόξαν, ἀ. τοιοῦτον, Id.8.4,7.23; “τοιόνδ᾽ ἀπέβη τόδε πρᾶγμα” E. Med.1419, cf. X.Cyr.1.5.13; “πολέμου τοιοῦτον ἀπέβη τὸ τέλος” Plb.26.6.15; “οὐδὲν αὐτῷ . . ὡς προσεδέχετο ἀπέβαινεν” Th.4.104, cf. 3.26; “παρὰ γνώμην ἀ.” 5.14; opp. “κατὰ γνώμαν ἀ.” Theoc.15.38; “πῶς ἡ φήμη δοκεῖ ὑμῖν ἀποβῆναι;” And.1.131.
3. abs., turn out well, succeed, “ἡ ὑπόσχεσις ἀπέβη” Th.4.39, cf. 5.14; of dreams, turn out true, Arist.Div. Somn.463b10.
4. of persons, with an Adj., turn out, prove to be so and so, ἀ. οὐ κοινοί prove partial, Th.3.53; “ἀ. χείρους” Pl.Lg.952b; “φρενιτικοὶ ἀ.” Hp.Coac.405; “τύραννος ἐκ βασιλέως ἀ.” Plb.7.13.7; also of a wound, “ἰάσιμον ἀ.” Pl.Lg.878c.
b. with εἰς . ., ἀ. εἰς τὰ πολιτικὰ οἱ τοιοῦτοι prove fit for public affairs, Id.Smp.192a; “ἐς ἀλαθινὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ἀ.” Theoc.13.15.
c. of conditions, etc., ἀπέβη ἐς μουναρχίην things ended in a monarchy, Hdt.3.82; “εἰς ἓν τέλεον καὶ νεανικόν” Pl.R.425c; “ἀποβήσεται εἰς μαρτυρίαν” Ev.Luc.21.13.
5. of space, μέγεθος μὲν ἦν πρὸς τὸν Ἠριδανὸν ἀποβεβηκῦα reaching, extending to . ., Pl.Criti.112a.
B. causal, in aor. 1 ἀπέβησα, cause to dismount, disembark, land (in which sense ἀποβιβάζω serves as pres.), “ἀ. στρατιήν” Hdt.5.63, 6.107; “ἐς τὴν Ψυττάλειαν” Id.8.95.
II. hence, in Pass., τὸ ἀποβαινόμενον σκέλος a leg put out so as not to bear the weight of the body, Hp.Art.52:—Act., Id.Mochl.20.