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