ἀποτέμνω

apotemno

cut off, sever

Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.

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History of Animals 12
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Book II 1
Chapter 17 506b32–509a23

508b7
Book III 3
Chapter 1 509a27–511a35

510a35

Chapter 11 517b21–518b34

518b27

Chapter 12 518b35–519a29

519a25
Book IV 1
Chapter 7 531b20–532b28

532a3
Book VII 2
Chapter 10 587a9–587b18

587a14
587a18
Book VIII 1
Chapter 21 603a30–604a3

603b6
Book IX 4
Chapter 7 612b18–613b5

613a20

Chapter 40 623b5–627b22

624b20

Chapter 50 631b19–633b8

632a16
632a26
Sense and Sensibilia 2
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Chapter 2 437a19–439a5

438b13
438b15
Eudemian Ethics 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 12 1244b1–1246a25

1244b29
Mechanica 1
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Chapter 2 848b1–850a2

849a37
Metaphysics 1
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Book Γ 1
Chapter 1 1003a21–32

1003a24
Meteorology 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 5 375b16–377a28

377a8
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 19 831b25–31

831b28
Parts of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 10 672b10–673a31

673a25
Physics 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 3 202a13–202b29

202b8

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀποτέμνω, Ep., Ion., and Dor. ἀπο-τάμνω, fut. -τεμῶ: aor. 2 Ion. and Dor. -έταμον, Att. -έτεμον:—Pass., fut. ἀποτμηθήσομαι Lys. 6.26: —Α. cut off, sever, παρηορίας ἀπέταμνε Il. 8.87; ἀπὸ στομάχους ἀρνῶν τάμε 3.292, etc.; χρῶτʼ ἀπὸ πάντα καὶ ἄρθρα τεμῶ χερί S. Ph. 1207; τὴν κεφαλήν Hdt. 2.39, cf. IG 4.952.2 (Epid.); τὰ σκέλεα Hdt. 2.40; τὴν ῥὶνα καὶ τὰ ὦτα Id. 3.154, etc.; amputate, X. Mem. 1.2.54, Hp. Art. 69; excise, Id. Haem. 2, cf. Dsc. Eup. 1.12 (Pass.); decapitate, ἀλεκτρυόνα PMag.Par. 1.38:—Pass., to be cut off, τὰ ἀκρωτήρια ἀποτμηθήσεσθαι Lys. 6.26; τὴν γλῶτταν ἀποτμηθείς Aeschin. 1.168 (s. v.l.; ἐκτμ. Suid.); τὴν κεφαλήν Luc. Nav. 33; τὸν τράχηλον Arr. Epict. 1.2.27. 2. cut off, divide, sever, in a geographical sense, ὁ Ἅλυς . . ἀποτάμνει σχεδὸν πάντα τῆς Ἀσίης Hdt. 1.72; ὄρεα ὑψηλὰ ἀ. [τὴν χώρην] Id. 4.25: mathematically, ἥμισυ . . ἡ γραμμὴ ἀ. Pl. Men. 85a, cf. Arist. Mech. 849a37:—Med., Pl. Phlb. 42b:—Pass., of troops, to be cut off from the main body, X. An. 3.4.29. 3. cut off, check, put an end to, τὰς μηχανάς Cratin. 289 (s. v.l.). 4. cut off, separate in argument, Pl. Lg. 753c:—Med., Arist. Metaph. 1003a24:—Pass., to be so cut off or abstracted, Id. Ph. 202b8. 5. ἀ. τὰ βαλλάντια to be a cut-purse, Pl. R. 348d. 6. cut open, ἱερεῖον Plu. Cim. 18. b. ἀποτεμεῖν· ἁγνίσαι, Hsch. II. Med., cut off for oneself, ἀποταμνόμενον κρέα ἔδμεναι Il. 22.347; ἀ. πλόκαμον Hdt. 4.34; τὴν χώρην ἀ. τάφρον ὀρυξάμενοι ib.3; ἀ. τοῦ ὠτός cut off a bit of . ., ib.71. 2. cut off, with a view of appropriating, πεντήκοντʼ ἀγέλης ἀπετάμνετο . . βοῦς h.Merc. 74; τὰς Θυρέας ἐούσας τῆς Ἀργολίδος μοίρης ἀποταμόμενοι ἔσχον Hdt. 1.82; χώραν, ὀργάδα, Isoc. 5.122, D. 13.32, etc.(in Pass., of the coutry cut off, Hdt. 1.82, etc.); ἀ. ὡς μέγιστα τῶν Ἀθηναίων cut off as much power as possible from them, Th. 8.46: also c. gen., χώρας ἀποτάμνεσθαι cut off a part of . ., SIG 56.24 (Argos, v B.C.), cf. Isoc. 1.88; Φοινίκης ἀ. Ἀραβίας τε to have a slice or portion of . ., Theoc. 17.86. 3. cut off from common use, consecrate, ὕλας Luc. Sacr. 10. 4. subtend, of the chord of an arc, S.E. M. 1.304.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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