ἐκτάμνω

ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων → as different as chalk from cheese, different as chalk from cheese, apples and oranges, like apples and oranges, by as much as cardamom is different from figs

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Full diacritics: ἐκτάμνω	Medium diacritics: ἐκτάμνω	Low diacritics: εκτάμνω	Capitals: ΕΚΤΑΜΝΩ
Transliteration A: ektámnō	Transliteration B: ektamnō	Transliteration C: ektamno	Beta Code: e)kta/mnw

English (LSJ)

Ion. for ἐκτέμνω.

ἐκτάμνω: Ἰων. ἀντὶ ἐκτέμνω.

épq. et ion. c. ἐκτέμνω.

subj. ἐκτάμνῃσι, aor. ἐξέταμον, ἔκταμε: cut out, hew out, fell trees, Od. 9.320; of the havoc wrought by wild boars, Il. 12.149.

ἐκτάμνω
1 cut out Ἑλέναν τ' ἐλύσατο, Τροίας ἶνας ἐκτᾰμὼν δορί (sc. Ἀχιλλεύς a metaphor from surgery) (I. 8.52)

ἐκτάμνω
1 cut out Ἑλέναν τ' ἐλύσατο, Τροίας ἶνας ἐκτᾰμὼν δορί (sc. Ἀχιλλεύς a metaphor from surgery) (I. 8.52)