ἀράσσω

ἀράσσω, [dialect] Att. [suff] ἀρᾰκό-ττω [pron. full] [ᾰρ], [dialect] Ion. and poet. [tense] impf.

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ἀράσσεσκον Pi.P.4.226

: [tense] fut. ἀράξω ([etym.] συν-) Hom., [dialect] Dor.

ἀραξῶ Theoc.2.160

: [tense] aor. ἤραξα ([etym.] ἀπ-) Hom., [dialect] Ep.

ἄραξα Hes.Sc.461

:—[voice] Pass., [tense] aor. ἠράχθην, [dialect] Ep. ἀράχθην ([etym.] συν-) Hom.: [tense] fut. [voice] Med. in pass. sense,

κατ-αράξεσθαι Plu.Caes.44

:— smite, dash in pieces, (Hom. only in compds. ἀπαράσσω, συναράσσω); of any violent impact, with collat. notion of rattling, clanging, as of horses,

ὁπλαῖς ἀ. χθόνα Pi.

l.c.; ἄρασσε (sc. πύλας) knock at the door, E.Hec.1044;

τὴν θύραν Ar.Ec.978

, cf. Theoc.2.6 ([voice] Pass., of the door, open with a crash, Luc.DMeretr.15.2); pound in a mortar,

ὅλμῳ ἀ. Nic. Th.508

; ἀράσσειν στέρνα, κρᾶτα, beat the breasts, the head, in mourning, A.Pers.1054 (lyr.), E.Tr.279 (lyr.); ἄρασσε μᾶλλον strike harder, A.Pr.58;

ὄψεις ἀράξας S.Ant.52

;

ἤρασσε βλέφαρα Id.OT1276

:—in [voice] Pass.,

ὀμμάτων ἀραχθέντων Id.Ant.975

(lyr.); also ἀ. πέτροις τινά strike with a shower of stones, E.IT327:—[voice] Pass.,

πέτροισιν ἠράσσοντο A. Pers.460

:—a). κιθάρην strike the lyre, Orph.A.382; ὕμνον, μέλος, etc., Nonn.D.1.15,440, etc.

2 c. dat. modi, ἀράσσειν τινὰ ὀνείδεσι, κακοῖς, assail with reproaches or threats, S.Aj.725, Ph.374, cf. ἐξαράσσω.

II [voice] Pass., to be dashed against,

πρὸς τὰς πέτρας Hdt.6.44

;

πρὸς τὴν γῆν Luc.Anach.11

; of things, dash one against the other, A.R.2.553, Ael.NA16.39.—The simple Verb is poetic, used once by Hdt. and in late Prose, v. supr. (Akin to ῥάσσω, [dialect] Ion. ῥήσσω (q.v.), cf. προσαρασσόμενον· προσρησσόμενον, Hsch.).