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ἐπιρράσσω , Ep. ἐπιρρα^π-ρρήσσω ,
A.dash to, shut violently, slam to, θύρην δ᾽ “ἔχε . . ἐπιβλὴς . . , τὸν τρεῖς μὲν ἐπιρρήσσεσκον Ἀχαιοί, τρεῖς δ᾽ ἀναοίγεσκον” Il.24.454, cf. 456; πύλας ἐπιρράξασ᾽ ἔσω (with v.l. ἐπιρρήξασ᾽) S.OT1244; τὸ πῶμα prob. in Plu.2.356c; λίθον (at the door of a cave) Id.Phil.19:—Pass., to be dashed to, of gates, D.H.8.18.
2.. dash against, ἐ. αὐτοῖς τὴν ἵππον throw the cavalry upon them, Id.3.25; “ἴχνος κολώναις” Nonn.D.11.195; strike, πέδον ὁπλῇ ib.41.189.
II.. intr., beat upon one, of a storm, μή τις Διὸς κεραυνὸς ἤ τις ὀμβρία χάλαζ᾽ ἐπιρράξασα; S.OC1503; of winds, Arat.292, Opp. H.1.634, App.BC2.59, Ph.1.507; ἐ. τισί attack them, D.S.15.84, cf. D.H.8.67, Ph.2.173, etc.
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):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 15.84
    • Homer, Iliad, 24.454
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1503
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1244
    • Plutarch, Philopoemen, 19
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.25
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 8.18
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 8.67
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