τομ-ή, ἡ,
(τέμνω)
__A end left after cutting, stump of a tree, [[ἐπεὶ δὴ πρῶτα τομὴν ἐν ὄρεσσι λέλοιπεν [τὸ σκῆπτρον] 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.235 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ῥιζῶν τομαί the ends of the roots (left by cutting away the tree), [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 534.5 (_anapaest meter_); ὀπὸν.. στάζοντα τομῆς [prev. work] 2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δοκοῦ τ. end of a beam, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.76; ἡ τοῦ καλάμου τ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.11.7, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λίθοι ἐν τομῇ ἐγγώνιοι stones cut square, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93 (sed to be read ἐντομῇ) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκέψαι τομῇ προσθεῖσα βόστρυχον having fitted the lock to the place from which it was cut, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 229 (σκέψαιτο μὴ codex M, distinxit Turnebus)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὴν τ. μεταστρέφειν to the cut, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 190e, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 532a4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__A.b Ταύροιο τ. probably ={προτομή} [[ 1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 322. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__A.2 in Mathematics texts, section, as a circle is the section of a sphere, a conic section of the cone, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 375b32, “Pr.” 912a13, compare “App.Anth.” 4.74 (from Synesius)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; with or without κοινή, the line in which two planes cut each other, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1060b14, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 11.16, 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 11, +others, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra “Conica” 1.4, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; point of intersection of two lines, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ ἑλίκων” 20, +others, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 3.3, etc.: abstract use, περὶ διωρισμένης τ.] Refs 3rd c.BC+] On determinate section, name of lost treatise of [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τὰ περὶ τὴν τ. the theorems about the section (i.e. in extreme and mean ratio), [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in primum Euclidis librum commentarius” p.67 F.:] Refs 5th c.AD+] —in conic sections, τομαὶ ἀντικείμεναι opposite sections, i.e. branches of hyperbola, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra “Conica” 2.15 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; συζυγεῖς τ. conjugate sections of hyperbolas, [[[prev. work] 17. ] Refs]