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κτυ^π-έω , Ep. Iterat.
A.“κτυπέεσκον” Q.S.9.135: aor. 1 “ἐκτύπησα” E. Ph.1181, Arr.Tact.40.6; poet. “κτύπησα” S.OC1606, E.Or.1467 (lyr.): Ep. aor. 2 “ἔκτυ^πον” Il.8.75, al., S.OC1456 (lyr.), “κτύπον” Il.8.170:— Pass., v. infr.: (κτύπος):—crash, as trees falling, “μεγάλα κτυπέουσαι πῖπτον” Il.23.119; freq. of thunder, “Ζεὺς ἔκτυπε” 8.75, cf. 7.479, Od.21.413, etc.; “ἔκτυπεν αἰθήρ” S.OC1456 (lyr.); of the sea, Pl.R.396b.
2. ring, resound, κτυπέει δέ θ᾽ ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ὕλη (sc. χειμάρρου) Il.13.140; ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἐκτύπουν πέτραι rang with the cries of Heracles, S.Tr.787; “Διὸς βρονταῖσιν εἰς ἔριν κ.” E.Cyc.328; “δρομήμασιν” Id.Med.1180; τοῖν ποδοῖν κ. stamp loudly with . . , Ar.Ec.545, cf. Gal.7.60; εἰ . . ἐμπεσὸν [δόρυ] τῷ θυρεῷ κτυπήσειε Arr.l.c.; “σιδηρῷ ὑποδήματι” Luc.Salt.83: c. acc. cogn., φόβον κτυπεῖν, like κλάζειν Ἄρη, E.Rh.308.
II. causal, make to ring or resound, “χθόνα” Hes.Sc.61; “τύμπανα” Opp.C.4.247: c. dupl. acc., κτύπησε κρᾶτα . . πλαγάν (v.l. πλαγᾷ) made it ring with a blow, E.Or. l. c.: metaph., “κ. ἐν τοῖς συμβουλευτικοῖς τόποις τὰς ὀνομασίας” Phld.Rh.1.208 S.:—Pass., resound, Ar.Pl.758, Th.995 (lyr.); “κτυπηθῆναι τὰ ὦτα” Philostr.VA6.26.
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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