Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, κατα-ρρήγνυ

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2. tear in pieces, rend, “κατερρήγνυε . . τὰ ἱμάτια” D. 21.63; “τὸ διάδημα” D.S.19.34; “τὴν ἐσθῆτα” Luc.Pisc.36:—Med., κατερρήξαντο τοὺς κιθῶνας they rent their coats, Hdt.8.99, cf. X.Cyr.3.1.13, etc.

3. metaph., τροπὰς καταρρήγνυσι[ἡ ἀναρχία] breaks up armies and turns them to flight, S.Ant.675.

4. κ. τινῶν γέλωτας make them burst out laughing, Ath.4.130c; cf. 11.2.

II. Pass., esp. in aor. κατερράγην[α^], with pf. Act. κατέρρωγα:—to be broken down, “κρημνοὶ καταρρηγνύμενοι” Hdt.7.23; καταρρήγνυσθαι ἐπὶ γῆν to be thrown down and broken, Id.3.111; “τὸ οἴκημα κατερράγη” Th.4.115; “ἄκρας κατερρωγυίας εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν” Str.5.2.6.

2. fall, rush down, of storms, waterfalls, etc., Hp.Aër.8; break or burst out, “Χειμὼν κατερράγη” Hdt. 1.87; “ὄμβροι καταρραγέντες” Arist.Mu.400a26; of tears, “ἐξ ὀμμάτων πηγαὶ κατερρώγασι” E.Alc.1068: c. gen., “τοῦ ῥεύματος -ρρηγνυμένου τῶν ὀρῶν” Philostr.VA6.23 (also intr. in Act., of a river, “-ρρηγνὺς ἐς τὴν θάλατταν” 3.52); of wind, Plu.Fab.16: metaph., “ὁ πόλεμος κατερράγη” Ar.Eq.644, cf. Ach.528; “γέλως” Ph.2.528; “κρότος” Plb.18.46.9 (but “κατερρήγνυτο πᾶς ὁ τόπος ὑπὸ τοῦ κρότου” 15.32.9); “βροντή” Luc.VH2.35.

3. to be broken in pieces, Αἴγυπτος μελάγγαιός τε καὶ καταρρηγνυμένη with comminuted, crumbling soil, Hdt.2.12; “γῆ κατερρωγυῖα” Arist.HA556a5; to be ruinous, “ὅσα κατέρρωγεν τοῦ τείχους” IG22.463.75.

4. Medic., have a violent discharge, suffer from diarrhoea, “καταρρήγνυται ἡ κοιλίη” Hp.VM10, cf. “καταρράσσω” 11; of persons, “κατερρήγνυντο τὰς γαστέρας” App.Hisp.54; “ἢν μὴ φῦσαι -ρραγέωσιν” Hp.Aph.4.73.

b. of menstruation, τοῖς θήλεσιν . . τὰ καταμήνια κ. Arist.HA581b1.

5. of tumours, break, burst, Hp.Coac.613, Epid. 6.8.18, al.

6. of parts of the body, fall in, collapse, οἵ τε μαζοὶ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα μέλεα κ. Id.Nat.Puer.30, cf. Mul.1.1; κατερρωγότα τὰ στέρνα [ἔχων] flat-chested, Jul.Or.6.198a; of the lips or tongue, to be fissured, Antyll. ap. Orib.10.27.13, Aët.5.118.

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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