ἀράσσω

arasso

smite, dash in pieces

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

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Generation of Animals 2
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Book III 1
Chapter 9 758a26–759a7

758b26
Book IV 1
Chapter 4 769b30–773a29

773a18
De Audibilibus 1
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Chapter 1 800a1–804b39

804a35
De Mundo 1
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Chapter 4 394a7–396a32

394b19
History of Animals 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 2 582a34–583a13

582b11
Meteorology 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 8 365b21–369a9

367a4
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 87 837a24–29

837a27

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀράσσω, Att. ἀράττω [ᾰρ], Ion. and poet. impf. ἀράσσεσκον Pi. P. 4.226: fut. ἀράξω (συν-) Hom., Dor. ἀραξῶ Theoc. 2.160: aor. ἤραξα (ἀπ-) Hom., Ep. ἄραξα Hes. Sc. 461:—Pass., aor. ἠράχθην, Ep. ἀράχθην (συν-) Hom.: fut. Med. in pass. sense, κατ-αράξεσθαι Plu. Caes. 44:— Α. 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 (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. OT 1276:—in Pass., ὀμμάτων ἀραχθέντων Id. Ant. 975 (lyr.); also ἀ. πέτροις τινά strike with a shower of stones, E. IT 327:—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. 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. NA 16.39.—The simple Verb is poetic, used once by Hdt. and in late Prose, v. supr. (Akin to ῥάσσω, Ion. ῥήσσω (q.v.), cf. προσαρασσόμενον· προσρησσόμενον, Hsch.).

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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