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ἀπο-κρεμάννυ_μι , fut. -κρεμάσω, Att. -κρεμῶ:—
A.let hang down, αὐχέν᾽ ἀπεκρέμασεν, of a dying bird, Il.23.879; χορδὰν πλῆκτρον ἀπεκρέμασε the plectrum broke the string so that it hung down, AP9.584; “ἡ προβολὴ τῶν χειρῶν ἀ. τὸ σῶμα” renders unsteady, Philostr.Gym.34; ἰσχύν relax, ib.53:—Pass., hang down, Arist.Pr.948b4; break forth from, “πηγὰς -υμένας τῶν ὀρῶν” Philostr. VA6.26: metaph., become detached, “γνώμη μὴ-ύσθω οὗ ζντεῖ” Id.VS2.9.2; “οὐσίαι ἀποκεκρεμασμέναι τῶν οἰκείων ἑνάδων” Dam.Pr.213.
II. hang up, suspend, “τὸν φαρετρεῶνα” Hdt.1.216.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.216
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.879
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 6.26
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 2.9.2
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Gymnastica, 34
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Gymnastica, 53
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