ἀφεῖται πάντα, all has been given up,—has slipped from his grasp, and been lost. Cp. Her. 8.49 “ἡ γὰρ Ἀττικὴ ἀπεῖτο ἤδη” (to the Persians). The perf. pass. of “ἀφίημι” is always pass. in sense, usu. meaning either ‘set free’ (as Isocr. or. 17 § 11), or, ‘left free’ (Plat. Critias 117C, of open ground), or ‘permitted’ (Thuc. 5.91). The only apparent instance of “ἀφεῖμαι” as a perf. midd. is Dem. or. 23 § 157 “τοῦ μὲν τιμωρεῖσθαι τὸν Χαρίδημον ἀφεῖσθαι, ἀποστεῖλαι δ᾽ ὑπόσπονδον”. But there, as “ἀποστεῖλαι” suggests, we must surely read the 2nd aor. midd. “ἀφέσθαι”, which was frequent in this sense (Plat. Gorg. 458C, etc.). If “ἀφεῖται” were midd. here, we should require “πάντων”: cp. Thuc. 2.60 “τοῦ κοινοῦ τῆς σωτηρίας ἀφίεσθε”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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