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ἀπο-σχίζω ,
A.split, cleave off, ἀπὸ δ᾽ ἔσχισεν αὐτήν [τὴν πέτρην] Od. 4.507; tear off, E.Alc.172, Opp.H.2.623.
2. sever, detach from, “τινὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ συμμαχικοῦ” Hdt.6.9; ἀ. Αυδούς part them off, separate them, Pl.Plt.262e; “τὴν ἰδίαν ψυχὴν τῆς τῶν λογικῶν” M.Ant.4.29:— Pass., ἀποσχισθῆναι ἀπό . ., of a river being parted from the main stream, Hdt.2.17, 4.56; of a tribe detached from its parent stock, Id.1.58,143; “ἀπὸ τῆς μεγάλης φλεβὸς -σχίζεται” Arist.HA514b10: c. gen., “ἀποσχισθέντες τῆς ἄλλης στρατιῆς” Hdt.8.35, cf. 7.233, Pl. Plt.267b, etc.:—Med., separate oneself, Id.Lg.728b; “τοῦ σοφιστοῦ” Lib.Or.3.24.
3. metaph., ἀ. τινὰ τοῦ λόγου cut him off from his speech, interrupt him in it, Ar.Nu.1408.
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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    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 1408
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