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ἀπα^ράσσω , Att. ἀπαρά-ττω ,
A.strike off, ἀντικρὺ δ᾽ ἀπάραξε [τὴν αἰχμήν] Il.16.116; “ἀπήραξεν δὲ χαμᾶζε . . κάρη” 14.497; “ἀ. τοῦ ἵππου τοὺς πόδας” Hdt.5.112; “κρᾶτα” S.Tr.1015 (lyr.).
2. knock or sweep off, “τοὺς ἐπιβάτας ἀπὸ τῆς νεός” Hdt.8.90; “τοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ πολεμίου καταστρώματος ὁπλίτας ἀ.” Th.7.63:—Pass., aor. part. “ἀπαραχθείς” D.H.8.85.
3. crush, “ἀπὸ δ᾽ ὀστέον ἄχρις ἄραξε” Il.16.324:—Pass., “-άσσεται τὴν κεφαλήν” J.BJ3.7.23.
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 (9):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.90
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.112
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.497
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.116
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.324
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 3.7.23
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 1015
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.63
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 8.85
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