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ῥάπτω

I.to sew or stitch together, stich, Il., Ar.:— Mid., ῥάπτεσθαι ὀχετὸν δερμάτων to make oneself a pipe of leather, Hdt.; ῥαψάμενος τουτί (sc. τὸ προσκεφάλαιον) having got it stitched, Ar.; but also, to sew on or to one, id=Ar.:—Pass., ἐρράφθαι τὸ χεῖλος to have one's lip sewed up, Dem.
II.metaph. to devise, contrive, plot, Hom., etc.; proverb., τὸ ὑπόδημα ἔρραψας μὲν σύ, ὑπεδήσατο δὲ Ἀρισταγόρης you made the shoe, but Aristagoras put it on, Hdt.

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