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ὑποτέμνω , Ion. ὑποτελ-τάμνω Aret. CA1.8: fut. -τεμῶ IG (v. infr. b):—
A.cut away under or underneath, “ὑπὸ γλῶσσαν τάμε χαλκός” Il.5.74; “ταμὼν ὕπο πυθμέν᾽ ἐλαίης” Od.23.204; “ὑ. τὰς ἀγκύρας” Plu.Ant.32:—Pass., ὑποτέτμηται τὰ νεῦρα τῶν πραγμάτων D.ap.Aeschin.3.166; τὰς ῥίζας ὑποτετμημένος having them cut away below, Luc.Tim.8; ὑποτμηθεὶς τὴν ἰγνύαν hamstrung, Id.Tox.60.
b. trim the surtaces of blocks of stone, IG7.3073.110 (Lebad., ii B. C.).
2. cut underhand, i.e. in a cheating way, of a roguish leather-seller, Ar.Eq.316 (troch.).
II. cut off, intercept, “ὑ. πηγάς” Pl.Lg.844a; “ὑ. τὴν ἐλπίδα” X.HG2.3.34; “[τὰς ῥίζας]” Diog.Oen.29:—more freq. in Med., ὑποταμέσθαι τὸ ἀπὸ τῶν νεῶν (sc. αὐτοῖς) Hdt.5.86; ὑποτεμοῦμαι τὰς ὁδούς σου I will cut off your way, stop you short, Ar.Eq.291, cf. Arist.Mete.356a27; “ὑ. τὸν πλοῦν” X.HG1.6.15; ὑποτέμνεσθαί τινας intercept them, Id.Cyr.1.4.19, cf. HG7.1.29; “τοὺς χρόνους ὑμῶν ὑ.” Aeschin.3.67; τὰς ὁρμάς, τὴν ἐπίνοιαν, Plb.18.38.1, 36.3.1, etc.; forestall, “τὴν ἀκόντισιν αὐτῶν . . δρόμῳ . . προσπεσόντες ὑπετέμοντο” D.C.38.49; prevent, guard against, ὑποτέμνεσθαι τὸν φόβον (the risk of gangrene, by excision) Paul.Aeg. 6.107; “ὑ. τὴν διάγνωσιν” prevents, Id.3.78; in pf. Med., “ὑποτετμημένος πάσας αὐτῶν τὰς ὠφελείας” Plb.5.107.6.
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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