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[Meaning one who has] died.
"Receive me who have perished, the dog Diogenes."[1]
Also [sc. attested is] a)pofqi/sein ["to destroy"],[2] [meaning] to kill, to put to death. Teucer says to the corpse of Ajax: "do you see that in time Hector intended, dead as he was, to destroy you?"[3]

*)apofqi/menon: a)poqano/nta. de/cai m' a)pofqi/menon to\n ku/na *dioge/nh. kai\ *)apofqi/seien, a)nelei=n, qanatw=sai. *teu=kro/s fhsi pro\s to\n nekro\n tou= *ai)/antos: ei)=des, w(s xro/nw| e)/melle/ s' *(/ektwr kai\ qanw\n a)pofqi/sein;

The headword participle, masculine accusative singular, is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Greek Anthology 7.67.3-4 (Leonidas of Tarentum), Diogenes addresses Charon [Author, Myth], here abridged; for full versions see beta 114 and omicron 124; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 126) and (vol. II, 367-368). Find further extracts from this epigram at epsilon 2061, epsilon 3944, and pi 2073. On Diogenes the Cynic, the ascetic skeptical philosopher, cf. delta 1141, delta 1143, and delta 1144. On Charon, ferryman of the dead to Hades, see chi 135.
[2] Adler follows most of the mss in printing optative a)pofqi/seien, but Vaticanus 881 (T) has the infinitive, surely correctly.
[3] Sophocles, Ajax 1026-1027 (web address 1 below).

A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)

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