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ὑφαρπ-άζω , Ion. ὑπαρπάζω Hdt. (v. infr.):—
A.snatch away from under, “τὴν ἕδραν τινός” X.Cyr.8.4.16.
2. take away underhand, filch, “μᾶζαν” Ar.Eq.56; “Κύπριν” Id.Th.205, Ec.722:—Med., οὐκ ἂν ὑφαρπάσαιο τἀμὰ παίγνια ib.921 (lyr.); snap up the meaning of a sentence, Id.Nu.490.
3. ὑ. τὸν ἐπίλοιπον λόγον snatch away the rest of what one is going to say, cut it short, Hdt.5.50, 9.91: abs., ἔφη ὑφαρπάσας, interposing hastily, Pl.Euthd.300d.
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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