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|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> [[cut down]], [[fell]], of trees, in Pass., [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 3.15.1, ''CP''2.15.4, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[cut in pieces]], [[cut up]], Hdt.1.48,73, 2.42, Ar.''Av.''1688 (Pass.), etc.; κρέα Pl.''Euthd.''301c; [[κατακοπείς]] = [[cut in pieces]], Hdt.8.92.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[cut down]], [[massacre]], [[butcher]], Id.6.75, Th.7.29:—Pass., ὥσπερ βόες κατεκόπησαν Phld.''Rh.''1.235S.<br><span class="bld">4</span> in a military sense, [[cut in pieces]], '[[cut up]]', τὴν μόραν D.13.22:—Pass., κατακοπῆναι X.''An.''1.2.25; [[κατακεκόψεσθαι]] ib.1.5.16.<br><span class="bld">5</span> κ. πληγαῖς τινα ''PLips.''37.20 (iv A.D.), etc.<br><span class="bld">6</span> generally, [[break in pieces]], [[destroy]], στεφάνους D. 22.70; κέραμον Plb.5.25.3; <b class="b3">ἔρια ὑπὸ τῶν σέων κατακοπτόμενα</b> [[fretted in pieces]], Ar.''Lys.''730, cf. Luc.''Ind.''1: metaph., κ. τὴν ἀρχήν Plu. ''Demetr.''30; κατακέκοπταί οἱ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς γαῦρον Id.2.762f; <b class="b3">κατεκόπημεν ἄν</b> should have been made [[mince]]-[[meat]] of, Pl.Com.35.<br><span class="bld">7</span> [[weary]], [[bore]], Anaxipp.1.23, Men.''Sam.''70,77.<br><span class="bld">8</span> Rhet., [[λέξις]] κατακεκομμένη = '[[staccato]]', [[jerky]] [[composition]], Demetr.''Eloc.''4.<br><span class="bld">9</span> in Med., <b class="b3">μαστοὺς κατεκόψατο</b>, in [[vehement]] [[grief]], ''Epigr.Gr.''316 (Smyrna).<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[strike with a die]], [[coin]] [[bullion]] into [[money]], Hdt.3.96; τὸν θρόνον ὄντα ἀργυροῦν X.''HG''1.5.3; τὰς Χρυσᾶς πλίνθους εἰς [[νόμισμα]] D.S.16.56, cf. Demetr.''Eloc.''281, Lib.''Or.''14.45.