Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-δέδρα_κα” Men.Sam.143, Phld.Rh.1.199 S.: aor. ἀπέδραν, Ion. -έδρην, opt. “ἀποδραίην” Thgn.927, imper. “ἀπόδρα_θι” Ph.1.90, inf. ἀποδρᾶναι, Ion. -δρῆναι, part. ἀποδράς—the only form found in Hom.; the other tenses in Hdt., etc., pf. part. “ἀποδεδρακότες” X.An.6.4.8:—run away, escape or flee from, esp. by stealth, Hom. (never in Il.), “ἐκ νηὸς ἀποδράς” Od.16.65; “νηὸς ἀ.” 17.516; “ἀ. ἐκ τῆς Σάμου” Hdt.3.148; “ἐς Σάμον” 4.43; “ἐπὶ θάλασσαν” 6.2; “ἀποδρᾶσα ᾤχετο” And.1.125, cf. 4.17, Ar.Ec.196, Pl.Tht.203d; of runaway slaves, X.An.1.4.8 (ἀποδρᾶναι τὸ ἀναχωρήσαντά τινα εὔδηλον εἶναι ὅπου ἐστίν, ἀποφεύγειν δὲ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι ἐπιληφθῆναι Ammon.p.19 V.); “σώματα ἀποδράντα” IG22.584; of soldiers, desert, X.An.5.6.34; ἀποδιδράσκοντα μὴ δύνασθαι ἀποδρᾶναι attempting to escape not to be able to escape, Pl.Prt.317a, cf. 310c.

2. c. acc., flee, shun, Hdt.2.182, Ar.Pax234, etc.; “ἀπέδρασαν αὐτόν” Th.1.128; evade, “τὸν νόμον” Arist.Pol.1270b35; “οὐκ ἀπέδρα τὴν στρατείαν” D.21.165; ὅτε . . τὸ σὸν ὄμμ᾽ ἀπέδραν (poet. for ἀπέδρασαν) S.Aj.167.—Rare in Trag. (Cf. Skt. δρα?τι 'run'.)