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ἀποτέμνω , Ep., Ion., and Dor. ἀποτελευτ-τάμνω , fut. -τεμῶ: aor. 2 Ion. and Dor. -έταμον, Att. -έτεμον:—Pass., fut.
A.“ἀποτμηθήσομαι” Lys.6.26: —cut off, sever, “παρηορίας ἀπέταμνε” Il.8.87; “ἀπὸ στομάχους ἀρνῶν τάμε” 3.292, etc.; “χρῶτ᾽ ἀπὸ πάντα καὶ ἄρθρα τεμῶ χερί” S.Ph.1207; “τὴν κεφαλήν” Hdt.2.39, cf. IG4.952.2 (Epid.); “τὰ σκέλεα” Hdt.2.40; “τὴν ῥὶνα καὶ τὰ ὦτα” Id.3.154, etc.; amputate, X.Mem.1.2.54, Hp.Art.69; excise, Id.Haem.2, cf. Dsc.Eup.1.12 (Pass.); decapitate, “ἀλεκτρυόνα” PMag.Par.1.38:—Pass., to be cut off, “τὰ ἀκρωτήρια ἀποτμηθήσεσθαι” Lys.6.26; “τὴν γλῶτταν ἀποτμηθείς” Aeschin.1.168 (s. v.l.; “ἐκτμ.” Suid.); “τὴν κεφαλήν” Luc.Nav.33; “τὸν τράχηλον” Arr.Epict.1.2.27.
2. cut off, divide, sever, in a geographical sense, “ὁ Ἅλυς . . ἀποτάμνει σχεδὸν πάντα τῆς Ἀσίης” Hdt.1.72; ὄρεα ὑψηλὰ ἀ. [τὴν χώρην] Id.4.25: mathematically, “ἥμισυ . . ἡ γραμμὴ ἀ.” Pl.Men.85a, cf. Arist. Mech. 849a37:—Med., Pl.Phlb.42b:—Pass., of troops, to be cut off from the main body, X.An.3.4.29.
3. cut off, check, put an end to, “τὰς μηχανάς” Cratin.289 (s. v.l.).
4. cut off, separate in argument, Pl. Lg.753c:—Med., Arist.Metaph.1003a24:—Pass., to be so cut off or abstracted, Id.Ph.202b8.
5. ἀ. τὰ βαλλάντια to be a cut-purse, Pl. R.348d.
6. cut open, “ἱερεῖον” Plu.Cim.18.
b. ἀποτεμεῖν: ἁγνίσαι, Hsch.
II. Med., cut off for oneself, “ἀποταμνόμενον κρέα ἔδμεναι” Il. 22.347; “ἀ. πλόκαμον” Hdt.4.34; τὴν χώρην ἀ. τάφρον ὀρυξάμενοι ib.3; ἀ. τοῦ ὠτός cut off a bit of . ., ib.71.
2. cut off, with a view of appropriating, “πεντήκοντ᾽ ἀγέλης ἀπετάμνετο . . βοῦς” h.Merc.74; “τὰς Θυρέας ἐούσας τῆς Ἀργολίδος μοίρης ἀποταμόμενοι ἔσχον” Hdt.1.82; χώραν, ὀργάδα, Isoc.5.122, D.13.32, etc.(in Pass., of the coutry cut off, Hdt.1.82, etc.); ἀ. ὡς μέγιστα τῶν Ἀθηναίων cut off as much power as possible from them, Th.8.46: also c. gen., χώρας ἀποτάμνεσθαι cut off a part of . ., SIG56.24 (Argos, v B.C.), cf. Isoc.1.88; Φοινίκης ἀ. Ἀραβίας τε to have a slice or portion of . ., Theoc.17.86.
3. cut off from common use, consecrate, “ὕλας” Luc.Sacr.10.
4. subtend, of the chord of an arc, S.E.M.1.304.
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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