ἀποφάσκω

A. = ἀπόφημι, only in pres. inf. and part., and impf.:— deny, Plu. 2.393c; τί τινος Simp. in Ph. 218.11:—Pass., Dam. Pr. 445; in S. OT 485 οὔτε δοκοῦντ’ οὔτ’ ἀποφάσκονθ) is interpreted by Sch. οὔτε πιστὰ οὔτε ἄπιστα 'neither commanding assent nor suffering denial) (but better referred to ἐμέ understood, 'neither assenting nor denying'):—ὁ ἀποφάσκων [λόγος], name of a sophism, Arr. Epict. 3.9.21; title of work by Chrysippus, Stoic. 2.8.