δια-κόπτω,
cut in two, cut through, διὰ δέρην ἔκοψε μέσσην [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 80, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.17, etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+]; χῶμα Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 11 B 6 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἰσθμόν [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.3.18 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; gash, σκέλος [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Γεωργός” 48 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, receive a gash, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 6.18, +others, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.30.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so διακέκοπται of base coin which had a hole drilled in it, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs]
__2 break through the enemy's line, δ. τάξιν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.10; τὴν φάλαγγα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 7; τεῖχος Aen. Tact. 32.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, break through the enemy's line, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.23, etc.; διακεκοφότας πρὸς τὰς εἰσόδους [prev. author] “Cyr.” 3.3.66 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so, of a weapon, δ. ἄχρι τοῦ διελθεῖν [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 37 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: metaphorically of a remedy, have decisive effect, [[ “SIG” 1170.16 (Epid.). ] Refs]
__3 break off, interrupt, τὴν περίοδον [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1409b9 (_passive_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δ. τὰς διαλύσεις [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.69.5; συνθήκας [prev. author] 18.42.3 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἑορτήν, ῥῆσιν, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 11, “Dom.” 14; ὕπνον 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.37 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— passive, of the pulse, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.459] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also, to be checked, τὰ πρὸς ἑταίρας δ. σωφρονισμοῖς [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.712c ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; διακέκομμαι τὸ στόμα I am struck dumb, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 334. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]