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ἀνα-κόπτω ,
A.drive back, push back, “θυρέων δ᾽ ἀνέκοπτεν ὀχῆας” Od.21.47.
2. beat back an assailant, Th.4.12, cf. Plu.Caes. 38.
3. ἀ. ναῦν check a ship's course, v.l. in Thphr.Char.25.2.
4. return food, διὰ ῥινῶν, εἰς τὰς ῥῖνας, Herod.Med. in Rh.Mus. 58.86, 90 and 96, cf. Aret.SA1.6.
II. knock out, “τὰς ὄψεις ἀνακοπείς” Philostr. Her.Prooem.2.
2. cut from below, Hld.9.18.
3. beat up eggs, Sor.1.222, PMag.Lond.121.180.
III. check, stop, “ἦχον” D.H.Comp. 22; “προσδοκίαν” Phld.Piet.25; “ἀοιδήν” Coluth.125:—Pass., to be stopped, restrained, “τῆς ὁρμῆς” Luc.Alex.57, cf. PFlor.36.3; stop short in a speech, Luc.Nigr.35.
IV. Medic., take effect, “ἀνακόπτει γὰρ οὕτως ἡ ὠφέλεια” Herod.Med. in Rh.Mus.58.92 (fort. διακ., cf. SIG1170.16).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Homer, Odyssey, 21.47
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 25.2
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.6
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.12
    • Plutarch, Caesar, 38
    • Lucian, Alexander, 57
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 22
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