A.“ἐκόλουσα” Pl.Prt.343c, Arist.Pol.1274a8:—Pass., fut. -ουθήσομαι Gal.9.529: aor. “ἐκολούθην” Th.7.66, -ούσθην A.Pers.1035 (lyr.): pf. “κεκόλουμαι” AP7.234 (Phil.), Plu.Ages.31, etc., -ουσμαι D.C.Fr. 57.23: (κόλος):—cut short, dock, curtail, [ἀστάχυας] Hdt.5.92.“ζ́; στάχυν σπάθῃ κ. φασγάνου” E.Fr.373; prune, “τὸν βότρυν” Thphr.CP 2.15.5; [τὰ δένδρα] βελτίω κολουόμενά φασι γίγνεσθαι ib.2, cf. IG9(2).1109.81 (Coropa): c.gen., τὴν δ᾽ ἐκόλουσεν οὐρῆς docked her of her tail, Opp.H.4.484.
II. Hom. always metaph., τὸ μὲν τελέει, τὸ δὲ μεσσηγὺ κολούει part he brings to pass, part he cuts off half-accomplished, of the threats of Achilles, Il.l.c.; μηδὲ τὰ δῶρα . . κολούετε curtail them not, Od.11.340; ἕο δ᾽ αὐτοῦ πάντα κολούει cuts off all his hopes, 8.211; κολούειν εἰς τὰ τῆς τέχνης ἔργα hinders performance in the art, Gal.5.733.
2. like κολάζω, which is more freq. in Prose, τὰ ὑπερέχοντα κ. put down, abase those who are exalted, Hdt.7.10.έ, cf. Arist.Pol.1284a37, 1313a40; “δῆμον” E.Fr.92; “τοὺς ἄλλους κ. διαβολαῖς” Pl.Lg.l.c., cf. Ap.39d; τὸ ῥῆμα discredit it, Id.Prt.l.c.; “τὴν ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ βουλήν” Arist.Pol.1274a8; κ. καὶ θεραπεύειν, κ. καὶ ταπεινώσειν τινά, Phld.Lib.p.60 O., Plu.Alc.l.c.:—Pass., to be balked, thwarted, σθένος ἐκολούσθη A.l.c.; νούσῳ κεκολουμένος APl.c.; ἐπειδὰν ᾧ ἀξιοῦσι προὔχειν κολουθῶσι when they are worsted in a matter in which they claim superiority, Th.l.c.; “ἀτιμαζόμενα καὶ κολουόμενα” Pl.R.528c, cf.Euthd.305d, Plu.Ages.l.c.
