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ἀπο-κοπή , ἡ, (ἀποκόπτω)
A.cutting off, “κρατός” A.Supp.841, cf. Hp.Mochl.34; lopping off a shoot for grafting, M.Ant.11.8: Medic., amputation, Archig. ap. Orib.47.13.3; stoppage, “ἐμμηίνων” Sor.1.26.
2. πεδίων ἀ., prob.their abrupt terminations, Plu.Phil.4, cf. Gp.12.41.1.
3. φωνῆς ἀ. loss of voice, Dsc.2.120, cf. Gal.13.31.
II. ἀποκοπαζ χρεῶν cancelling of all debts, And.1.88, Pl.R.566a, Jusj. ap. D.24.149, etc.
III. abruptness, esp. of literary style, Demetr.Eloc.238; ἀ. ῥυθμοῦ broken rhythm, ib.6; “ἐξ ἀποκοπῆς” abruptly, D.H.Th.52; also of disease, ἐξ ἀ. λυθῆναι to be suddenly cured, Gal.7.441.
IV. section, extract, “λόγου” Tryph.Trop.7.
V. in Gramm., apocope, cutting off of one or more letters, esp. at the end of a word, Arist.Po.1458b2 (pl.), cf. A.D.Synt.6.11; “κατ᾽ ἀποκοπήν” Str.8.5.3; also of elliptical expressions, such as νὴ τόν, Ph.2.271.
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):
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 841
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 88
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1458b.2
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 149
    • Plato, Republic, 566a
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.5.3
    • Plutarch, Philopoemen, 4
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 52
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 11.8
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