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κόμμα , ατος, τό, (κόπτω)
A.stamp or impression of a coin, “χαλκίοις . . κοπεῖσι τῷ κακίστῳ κόμματι” Ar.Ra.726: prov., πονηροῦ κόμματος of bad stamp, Id.Pl.862, 957; χρυσίον κόμμασιν ἀποσμώμενον (sic leg. pro ἀποσπ-) cleansed by blows of the die, Luc.Pisc.14.
2. coinage, “ἴδιοί τινες [θεοί], κ. καινόν” Ar.Ra.890, cf. Ec.817; Σεύθα κόμμα, on Thracian coins, BMus.Cat.Coins Thrace p.201 (v B.C.); οἱ τὸ τοῦ νομίσματος κ. μεταχειριζόμενοι, = Lat. triumviri monetales, D.C.54.26.
3. metaph., μαλθακωτέρου κόμματος, of the female body, Ph. 1.639.
II. that which is cut off, piece, “ἰχθύων” Gp.18.14.2.
2. refuse of corn in threshing, chaff, Din.Fr.18.4 (pl.).
3. shortclause in a sentence, Cic.Orat.62.211, Phld.Rh.1.165 S., D.H.Comp.26, Quint.9.4.22, etc.; defined as “τὸ κώλου ἔλαττον” Demetr.Eloc.9; cf. “κομμάτιον” 3.
III. contusion, Critoap.Gal.13.878.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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