A.“ῥάξω” LXX Is.9.11(10), (ξυρ-) Th.8.96: aor. “ἔρραξα” D.54.8, Apollod. Com.22, (συν-) X.HG7.5.16:—Pass., fut. (in med. form) ῥάξομαι （καταρ-) Plu.Caes.44: aor. “ἐρράχθην” LXX Da.8.10, (ἐπι-) D.H.8.18:— like ἀράσσω, strike, dash, “τινὰ εἰς τὸν βόρβορον” D. l.c.; overthrow, τινας LXX Is. l.c.
2. in Ion. form ῥήσσω , of dancers, beat the ground, dance, “ῥήσσοντες ἁμαρτῇ μολπῇ τ᾽ ἰυγμῷ τε ποσὶ σκαίροντες ἕποντο” Il.18.571; “οἱ δὲ ῥήσσοντες ἕποντο” h.Ap.516; for which A.R. 1.539 has in full, ὥστε . . πέδον ῥήσσωσι πόδεσσι:—so also “αἴρῃσιν ὅτε ῥήσσοιτο σίδηρος” Euph.51.9; ῥήσσειν τύμπανα beat them violently, AP 7.709 (Alexander). [ῥάσσω （ῥάττω) prob. has α_ by nature, as shown by Ion. ῥήσσω: cf. ἀράσσω:—the Ion. form is found also in the κοινή, as LXX Wi.4.19, Ev.Marc.9.18, Ev.Luc.9.42, Arr.Epict.1.20.9.]
