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|Definition= ἡ, ([[τέμνω]])<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[end left after cutting]], [[stump of a tree]], ἐπεὶ δὴ πρῶτα τομὴν ἐν ὄρεσσι λέλοιπεν [τὸ σκῆπτρον] Il.1.235; [[ῥιζῶν τομαί]] = the [[end]]s of the [[root]]s ([[left by cutting away]] the [[tree]]), S.''Fr.''534.5 (anap.); ὀπὸν.. στάζοντα τομῆς ib.2; [[δοκοῦ τομή]] = [[end]] of a [[beam]], Th.2.76; ἡ τοῦ καλάμου τομή [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 4.11.7, cf. Theoc.10.46; [[λίθοι ἐν τομῇ ἐγγώνιοι]] = [[stone]]s [[cut]] [[square]], Th.1.93 (sed leg. [[ἐντομῇ]]) ; σκέψαι τομῇ προσθεῖσα [[βόστρυχος|βόστρυχον]] = having fitted the lock to the place from which it was [[cut]], A.''Ch.''229 (σκέψαιτο μὴ cod. M, distinxit Turnebus); πρὸς τὴν τομὴν [[μεταστρέφειν]] to the [[cut]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Symposium|Smp.]]'' 190e, cf. [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''532a4.<br><span class="bld">b</span> Ταύροιο τ. prob. = [[προτομή]] ''1'', Arat. 322.<br><span class="bld">2</span> Math., [[section]], as a [[circle]] is the [[section]] of a [[sphere]], a [[conic]] [[section]] of the [[cone]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''375b32, ''Pr.''912a13, cf. ''App.Anth.''4.74 (Synesius); with or without [[κοινή]], the [[line in which two planes cut]] each other, [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Metaphysics|Metaph.]]''1060b14, Euc.11.16, Archim. ''Con.Sph.''11, al., Apollon.Perg.''Con.''1.4, etc.; [[point of intersection]] of two lines, Archim.''Spir.''20, al., Ptol.''Alm.''3.3, etc.: abstract use, [[περὶ διωρισμένης τομῆς]] = [[On determinate section]], name of lost treatise of Apollon.Perg.; [[τὰ περὶ τὴν τομήν]] the theorems about the [[section]] (''[[sc.]]'' in extreme and mean ratio), Procl.''in Euc.''p.67 F.:—in conic sections, [[τομαὶ ἀντικείμεναι]] = [[opposite]] [[section]]s, i.e. [[branch]]es of [[hyperbola]], Apollon.Perg.''Con.''2.15; [[συζυγεῖς τομαί]] = [[conjugate]] [[section]]s of [[hyperbola]]s, ib.17.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[incision]] or [[insection]] between parts of an [[insect]]'s body (whence their name of [[ἔντομον|ἔντομα]]), [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[De Partibus Animalium|PA]]''682b25.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[ἡ εἰς ἄπειρον τομή]] = [[infinite]] [[divisibility]], Epicur.''Ep.''1p.16U.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[cutting]], [[cleaving]], [[ἐν τομᾷ σιδάρου]] = by [[stroke]] of [[iron]], S.''Tr.''887 (lyr.); πελέκεως τομή E.''El.''160 (lyr.); φασγάνου τομαί Id.''Or.''1101; [[cutting off]] or [[cutting down]], ξύλου S.''Tr.''700; [[vine]]-[[cutting]], PCair.Zen. 736.29 (iii B.C.); [[cutting up]], εἰς τομὴν καὶ προσαγωγὴν χάλικος ''PPetr.''3p.290 (iii B.C.); [[hewing]], λίθων ''IG''12.336.7, 11, ''SIG''244 ii 58 (Delph., iv B.C.), ''IG''42(1).106i19, al. (Epid., iv B.C.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[use of the knife]] in surgery, Hp.''VC''13; ἢ καύσει ἢ τομῇ χρησάμενος [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 406d; οὔτε τομὴ οὔτε [[καῦσις]] Hp.''Art.''62; σιδήρου τομή Sor.1.80: pl., Pi.''P.''3.53, E.''Fr.''403.6; τὰς θεραπείας.. διὰ καύσεών τε καὶ τομῶν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Protagoras|Prt.]]'' 354a, cf. ''Ti.''65b.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[castration]], Luc. ''Philops.''2.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[τομὴ φαρμάκων]] = [[shred]]ding of [[drug]]s, Conon 23.2.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[pruning]], ἀμπέλων [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[De Causis Plantarum|CP]]'' 3.14.2, Paus.2.38.3.<br><span class="bld">6</span> [[σκυτῶν τομή]] = [[cutting]] or [[shaping]] of [[leather]], Pl.''Chrm.''173d.<br><span class="bld">7</span> [[αἱ τομαὶ τῆς γῆς]], i.e. [[canal]]s, Lib. ''Or.''18.232.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[severance]], [[separation]], τομὴ καὶ [[διάκρισις]] Pl.''Ti.''61d, cf. 80e; of [[number]], [[division]], Id.''Lg.''738a; [[τομὴν ἔχειν ἔν τινι]] to [[admit]] a [[distinction]] in... ib.944b; [[χρονικαὶ τομαί]] = [[distinction]]s of [[tense]]s, A.D.''Synt.''10.18; [[process of division]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[μεγέθους]]), Nicom. ''Ar.''1.2.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[logical division]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Politicus|Plt.]]'' 261a, Arist.''APo.''95b30, ''Metaph.'' 1038a28, Gal.10.899.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., [[conciseness]] or [[precision]] in expression, Eun.''VS''p.461B.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[τομὴ πράγματος]] = [[decisio]], ''Glossaria''<br><span class="bld">IV</span> a [[cut]], [[wound]], [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''632a18, Aen.Tact.11.14: metaph., [[wound]], [[πόλις]] δεδεγμένη τ. Plu.''Cor.''16, cf. ''Per.''11.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[caesura]] in [[verse]], Aristid.Quint.1.24; more generally, [[break between successive words]], Hermog.''Id.''2.10, Heph.15.2, al., Eust.740.1.<br><span class="bld">V</span> [[edge]], [[cutting power]], σιδήρου Arr.''Tact.''12.2.