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ἐκτέμνω , Ep. and Ion. ἐκτάμνω (as always in Hom.), fut. -τεμῶ : aor. 2 ἐξέταμον (v. infr.) or -έτεμον S.Tr.1196, Ar.Ra.575 : fut. perf.
A.“ἐκτετμήσομαι” Pl.R.564c, Ph.1.458:—cut out, “μηροὺς ἐξέταμον” Il.1.460, etc.; μηροῦ ἔκταμ᾽ ὀϊστόν cut an arrow from the thigh, 11.829, cf. 515; “ἐ. γλῶσσαν” Hdt.9.112 ; “ἐ. τὸν λάρυγγά τινος” Ar.Ra.575 ; of a surgeon, cut out a diseased part, Pl.R.564c (Pass.); “σχῆμα τῆς γῆς” Arist.Mete.362a35.
2. cut trees out of a wood, cut down, Il. 12.149, S.Tr.1196 ; also of planks, etc., hew out, hew into shape, “ὅς ῥά τε τέχνῃ νήϊον ἐκτάμνῃσιν” Il.3.62, cf. 4.486 ; ἐ. τὰ πρέμνα to cut the stumps out of the ground, Lys.7.19.
3. ἐ. ἶνας cut away the sinews, and so, weaken, Pi.I.8(7).57 ; “ἐ. ὥσπερ νεῦρα ἐκ τῆς ψυχῆς” Pl.R.411b ; “ῥόδον ἐ. ῥίζης” IG14.2040 : metaph., ἐλπίδας ἐξέταμες ib. 1362 ; 'nip in the bud', “πάθος” Alex.Trall.1.17 :—Pass., “ἐκτέμνεσθαι νοῦν καὶ λόγον” Ph.1.17.
II. castrate, “παῖδας” Hdt.6.32, 8.105 ; “ὄρχεις ἐ.” S.Fr.620 ; “οἱ ἐκτετμημένοι” eunuchs, Arist.HA518a31 ; ἐ. τὰ θήλεα circumcise females, Str.17.2.5, cf. 16.4.9 (Pass.).
III.= “κείρειν, γῆς ἐκτεμνομένης” D.H.9.57(s. v.l.).
IV. ἐκτέμνεσθαί τινας φιλανθρωπίᾳ to disarm and deceive by kindness, Plb.30.30.8.
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 (18):
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 575
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.112
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.32
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.105
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.829
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.460
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.62
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.486
    • Lysias, On the Olive Stump, 19
    • Plato, Republic, 411b
    • Plato, Republic, 564c
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.4.9
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.2.5
    • Homer, Iliad, 12.149
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 620
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 1196
    • Polybius, Histories, 30.30.8
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.57
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