ἄφετος

A. let loose, ranging at large, esp. of sacred flocks that were free from work, ἄ. ἀλᾶσθαι γῆς ἐπ’ ἐσχάτοις ὅροις A. Pr. 666; ἀφέτων ὄντων ταύρων ἐν τῷ . . ἱερῷ Pl. Criti. 119d; νέμονται ὥσπερ ἄφετοι Id. Prt. 320a, cf. R. 498c, Isoc. 5.127, Call. Del. 36.

II. of persons, dedicated, free from worldly business, E. Ion 822, Plu. 2.768b; [γένη] ἀπόλυτα καὶ ἄ. Iamb. Myst. 1.8; ἄ. παντὸς τοῦ δεινοῦ Max.Tyr. 3.9.

2. of things, ἄ. ἡμέραι holidays, Poll. 1.36; νομὴ ἄ. free range, of horses, Plu. Lys. 20; ὁρμαί Ph. 2.380, cf. Plu. 2.12a; δρόμοι Id. Cleom. 34; ἐξουσία τοῦ λέγειν Phld. Herc. 862.10; κακουργίαι Id. Piet. 21; τὸ ἄ. τῆς κόμης Luc. Dom. 7; τοῦ λόγου Hermog. Id. 1.6. Adv. ‐τως, ὁρμᾶν freely, Ph. 1.135, cf. Dam. Pr. 307; ἀπολαύει Phld. D. 3 Fr. 89.

3. of style, rambling, prolix, Luc. Tox. 56.

III. Ἀφέται, pr. n., the place whence the Argonauts loosed their ship, Hdt. 7.193.