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περι-κόπτω , pf. -
A.“κέκοφα” Lys. 14.42 :—cut all round, mutilate, “τοὺς Ἑρμᾶς περιέκοπτεν” D.21.147, cf. And.1.34, Lys.6.51 ; “οἱ Ἑρμαῖ περιεκόπησαν τὰ πρόσωπα” Th.6.27 ; “π. τὰ ἀκρωτήρια τῆς Νίκης” D.24.121; τὰ παράσημα [τῆς νεώς] Plu. Them.15 ; π. τὰ βιβλία cut them round the edges, Luc.Ind.16; trim off, τὰς ἀκάνθας τὰς κύκλῳ (of fish) Alex.133.3 ; prune, “δένδρεα” Tab.Heracl.1.173 :—Pass., to be pruned or cut away, Thphr.HP4.16.1,5 ; of fish, to be trimmed, Arist.Mir.835219 ; of a statue, to be rough-hewn, Plu.2.74d.
2. lay waste (from the practice of cutting down the fruit-trees), “τὰ ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ” D.8.9 : hence, plunder a person, Id.9.22 :—Pass., PCair.Zen.44.24, 145.4 (iii B. C.), D.H.10, 51, Str.11.13.2, etc.; “πόλεις περικεκομμέναι χρημάτων” Plu.Ant.68: abs., “π. καὶ λῃστεύειν” D.S.4.19 : hence, simply, intercept, cut off, “ἀγοπάς” D.H.10.43, cf. Plu.Luc.2 (Pass.); “τὰ σιτηγά” Id.Mar.42; “τινῶν τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς εὐπορίαν” Id.Sert.21 ; restrain, check, “πολυπραγμοσύνην” Id.Per.21 :—Pass., to be hindered, “ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι” Cat.Cod.Astr.2.166.
3. cut off, destroy, kill, D.H.10.51, J.BJ4.5.2.
4. take no account of, eliminate, Gal.9.781, Sect.Intr.6.
5. π. λογάριον close an account, PFay.134.5 (iv A. D.).
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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