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|Definition=<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[beat off]], [[drive away]], [[from]] a place or person, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.3.22</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>11.351 (Pall.); <b class="b3">ὕπνον, νόσον</b>, <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>1.27</span>,<span class="bibl">53</span>:—more freq. in Med., [[beat off from oneself]], τὰς προσβολάς <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.200</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.2.4</span>; αὐτοὺς ἐπιόντας <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.61</span>, etc.; generally, [[repel]], opp. [[ἐπισπᾶσθαι]], <span class="bibl">S.E. <span class="title">M.</span>7.400</span>; [[shake off]], <span class="bibl">Plot.4.7.10</span>, <span class="bibl">Hierocl.<span class="title">in CA</span>19p.461M.</span>; τινάς <span class="bibl">Jul. <span class="title">Or.</span>2.67b</span>; ἀλληλοφαγίας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>1.23</span>; [[refute]] an opponent, <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Comp.</span>25</span>; [[κατηγορίαν]] Chor.in <span class="title">Rev.Phil.</span>1.245:— Pass., to [[be beaten off]], of an assault, <span class="bibl">Th.4.107</span>, etc.; ἀποκρουσθέντες τῆς πείρας <span class="bibl">Id.8.100</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>6.4.5</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. τῆς μηχανῆς</b> dub. in <span class="bibl">Plb.21.28</span>; τῆς Ἰβηρίας <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sert.</span>7</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[knock off]], IG3.1417.12:—Pass., <b class="b3">κοτυλίσκιον τὸ χεῖλος ἀποκεκρουμένον</b> a cup [[with]] the lip [[knocked off]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>459</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Pass., also, to [[be thrown from horseback]], <span class="bibl">X. <span class="title">Eq.Mag.</span>3.14</span>; to [[be stranded]], πρὸς χωρίον λιμνῶδες ἀπεκρούσθη Gal. 2.221.</span>