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λα^πάσσω , Att. λα^πα?́ρ-ττω ,
A.empty, “διάρροιαι . . τὴν γαστέρα λαπάσσουσαι” Hp.Prog.8; οὐκ ἐλάπαξεν οὐδέν had no evacuations, Id.Epid.4.31; τὰ παρ᾽ οὖς λαπάσσει causes the tumours by the ear to discharge, Id.Coac. 201, Prorrh.1.167:—Pass., esp. in aor. ἐλαπάχθην, of the bowels, to be emptied, Id.VM11, Acut.(Sp.）42, Arist.Pr.935b30: abs., ἐλαπάσσετο internal relief took place, Hp.Epid.6.2.19: pf.inf. “λελαπάχθαι” Ath.8.363a.
2. soften, “ὅκως . . τὰ σκληρυνόμενα λαπαχθῇ” Hp.Ulc. 10.
II. sack a town (cf. ἀλαπάζω）“, λαπάξειν ἄστυ Καδμείων βίᾳ” A. Th.47,531, dub. in Id.Ag.130.
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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