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ἀποτάσσω , Att. ἀπό-ττω ,
A.set apart, assign specially, “χώραν τινί” Pl.Tht. 153e; detach soldiers, Plb.6.35.3, etc., cf. POxy.475.27 (ii A. D.):— Pass., ἀποτεταγμένη ἀρχή distinct office, Arist.Pol.1322a26; “ἀποτεταγμένοι τῇ κατοικίᾳ χρηματισταί” PFay.12 (ii B. C.): generally, to be fixed, appointed, “χῶρος” Plu.2.120b; ear-mark, “ἀργύριον εἰς δημοθοινίαν -τεταγμένον” IG12(7).515.91 (Amorgos), cf. BCH46.397 (Mylasa).
II. appoint, settle definitely, Arist.HA585b36.
III. remove, exclude, “τόπον τοῦ κόσμου” Philostr.VA3.35; “ἑαυτόν τινων” Id.Im.2.19.
IV. Med, ἀποτάσσομαί τινι bid adieu to a person, part from them, Ev.Luc.9.61, Act.Ap.18.21, Ev.Marc.6.46, J.AJ11.8.6, BGU884 ii 14(ii/iii A. D.), Aesop.64, Lib.Decl.45.28; have done with, get rid of a person, POxy.298.31 (i A. D.); “ἀ. τῷ βίῳ” commit suicide, Cat.Cod.Astr.8（<*>). 136.17: also c. dat. rei, renounce, give up, “τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ὑπάρχουσιν” Ev.Luc.14.33; “τροφῇ” J.AJ11.6.8; ταῖς μίξεσι, of the Vestals, Sor.1.32; “πάθεσι” Ph.1.116, cf. Iamb.VP3.13, Phryn.15.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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