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ἀράσσω

ἀράσσω, to strike hard, smite

ἀράσσω, Att. ἀράττω [ᾰρ], Ion. and poet. impf. ἀράσσεσκον Pi. P. 4.226: fut. ἀράξω (συν-) Hom., Dor. ἀραξῶ Theoc. 2.160: aor. ἤραξα (ἀπ-) Hom., Ep. ἄραξα Hes. Sc. 461:—Pass., aor. ἠράχθην, Ep. ἀράχθην (συν-) Hom.: fut. Med. in pass. sense, καταράξεσθαι Plu. Caes. 44:—
  • smite, dash in pieces, (Hom. only in compds. ἀπαράσσω, συναράσσω); of any violent impact, with collat. notion of rattling, clanging, as of horses, ὁπλαῖς ἀ. χθόνα Pi. l.c.; ἄρασσε (sc. πύλας) knock at the door, E. Hec. 1044; τὴν θύραν Ar. Ec. 978, cf. Theoc. 2.6 (Pass., of the door, open with a crash, Luc. DMeretr. 15.2); pound in a mortar, ὅλμῳ ἀ. Nic. Th. 508; ἀράσσειν στέρνα, κρᾶτα, beat the breasts, the head, in mourning, A. Pers. 1054 (lyr.), E. Tr. 279 (lyr.); ἄρασσε μᾶλλον strike harder, A. Pr. 58; ὄψεις ἀράξας S. Ant. 52; ἤρασσε βλέφαρα Id. OT 1276:—in Pass., ὀμμάτων ἀραχθέντων Id. Ant. 975 (lyr.); also ἀ. πέτροις τινά strike with a shower of stones, E. IT 327:—Pass., πέτροισιν ἠράσσοντο A. Pers. 460:—ἀ. κιθάρην strike the lyre, Orph. A. 382; ὕμνον, μέλος, etc., Nonn. D. 1.15, 440, etc.
      • 2 c. dat. modi, ἀράσσειν τινὰ ὀνείδεσι, κακοῖς, assail with reproaches or threats, S. Aj. 725, Ph. 374, cf. ἐξαράσσω.
    • II Pass., to be dashed against, πρὸς τὰς πέτρας Hdt. 6.44; πρὸς τὴν γῆν Luc. Anach. 11; of things, dash one against the other, A.R. 2.553, Ael. NA 16.39.—The simple Verb is poetic, used once by Hdt. and in late Prose, v. supr. (Akin to ῥάσσω, Ion. ῥήσσω (q.v.), cf. προσαρασσόμενον· προσρησσόμενον, Hsch.).

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