[Meaning] I wiped away [tears], I cried. "So that I felt pity, and I brushed away tears, seeing an elderly man panic-striken by an archer-fellow."[1] For it follows by logic that he brushed away tears.
Or ἀπεμόρξατο ["he/she/it brushed away"], [meaning he/she/it] adapted.
"He had just brushed rain from his hair, but on his track had come a cow-eating lion into the hollow path."[2]
Also ἀπεμόρξατο [in the sense of he/she/it] cast off, smeared off.[3]