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ἐπικόπτ-ω , pf.
A.“-κέκοφα” Phld.D.1.15:—strike upon (i.e. from above), fell, βοῦν “ἐπικόψων” Od.3.443.
2.. later, of trees, lop, pollard, Thphr.CP5.17.3; cut down brushwood, PLond.3.1170B26 (iii A.D.): metaph., cut short, bring down from high estate, “τοὺς πεφρονηματισμένους” Arist. Pol. 1284b2; “φιληδονίαν ἀκόλαστον” Plu.2.529b; check, impede, πράξεις ib.975b; “στάσιν” J.BJ2.17.4 (Pass., Hp.Ep.13); reprove, censure, τινά Timo 4, Myro 2 J., Plu.Cic.24, Philostr.V A5.35, al.; refute, Phld. l.c.; “δόξας” Id.Po.5.26.
3.. ἐ. χαρακτῆρα stamp, coin, Arist.Oec. 1349b31.
4.. cut anew, [τὸν] ἀποτριβέντα [μύλον] Str.15.2.2.
b.. Archit., dress blocks of stone, etc., “κατὰ κεφαλήν” IG7.3073.183 (Lebad.), cf. ib.4255.15 (Oropus); “πλίνθον” Milet.7p.59 (Didyma).
5.. Med., smite one's breast, wail for, “τινά” E. Tr.627.
6.. of disease, afflict, “βαρύτερον” Aret.SD2.13.
7.. injure, “αἱ ἡδοναὶ ἐ. τὴν ἰσχύν” Philostr.Gym.52:—Pass., “-κοπεὶς τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑπό τινος” Id.VS2.25.2.
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 (8):
    • Euripides, Trojan Women, 627
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.443
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.17.4
    • Strabo, Geography, 15.2.2
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.13
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 24
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.25.2
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Gymnastica, 52
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