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κατα-κόπτω ,
A.cut down, fell, of trees, in Pass., Thphr.HP3.15.1, CP2.15.4, etc.
2. cut in pieces, cut up, Hdt.1.48,73, 2.42, Ar.Av.1688 (Pass.), etc.; “κρέα” Pl.Euthd.301c; κατακοπείς cut in pieces, Hdt.8.92.
3. cut down, massacre, butcher, Id.6.75, Th.7.29:—Pass., “ὥσπερ βόες κατεκόπησαν” Phld.Rh.1.235S.
4. in a military sense, cut in pieces, 'cut up', “τὴν μόραν” D.13.22:—Pass., “κατακοπῆναι” X.An.1.2.25; κατακεκόψεσθαι ib.1.5.16.
5. “κ. πληγαῖς τινα” PLips.37.20 (iv A.D.), etc.
6. generally, break in pieces, destroy, “στεφάνους” D. 22.70; “κέραμον” Plb.5.25.3; ἔρια ὑπὸ τῶν σέων κατακοπτόμενα fretted in pieces, Ar.Lys.730, cf. Luc.Ind.1: metaph., “κ. τὴν ἀρχήν” Plu. Demetr.30; “κατακέκοπταί οἱ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς γαῦρον” Id.2.762f; κατεκόπημεν ἄν we should have been made mince-meat of, Pl.Com.35.
7. weary, bore, Anaxipp.1.23, Men.Sam.70,77.
8. Rhet., λέξις -κεκομμένη 'staccato', jerky composition, Demetr.Eloc.4.
9. in Med., μαστοὺς κατεκόψατο, in vehement grief, Epigr.Gr.316 (Smyrna).
II. strike with a die, coin bullion into money, Hdt.3.96; “τὸν θρόνον ὄντα ἀργυροῦν” X.HG1.5.3; “τὰς Χρυσᾶς πλίνθους εἰς νόμισμα” D.S.16.56, cf. Demetr.Eloc.281, Lib.Or.14.45.
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, Birds, 1688
    • Demosthenes, On Organization, 22
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    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.75
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    • Polybius, Histories, 5.25.3
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