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κατέρχομαι

κατέρχομαι, to go down from; return from exile

κατέρχομαι, fut. κατελεύσομαι Od. 1.303, Hdt. 5.125, Arr. An. 6.12.3 (but in good Att. κάτειμι, as also κατῄειν is always used for the impf.): aor. κατήλῠθον or κατῆλθον, inf. κατελθεῖν; Dor. subj. κατένθῃ Berl.Sitzb. 1927.165 (Cyrene); Arc. part. κατενθών, pf. part. κατηνθηκώς, v. καθέρπω II: pf. κατελήλυθα SIG 675.24 (ii B.C.):—
  • go down, Οὐλύμποιο κατήλθομεν Il. 20.125, etc.; τινʼ ἀθανάτων ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος . . κατελθέμεν 6.109; go down to the grave, κ. Ἄϊδος εἴσω, Ἄϊδόσδε, ib. 284, 7.330; εἰς Ἅιδου E. HF 1101, etc.: rarely c. acc., τίς . . σκότου πύλας ἔτλη κατελθεῖν; Ar. Fr. 149.2 (parod.); from high land to the coast, ἐπὶ νῆα θοὴν κατελεύσομαι Od. 1.303; from country to town, 11.188; down the Nile, εἰς Ἀλεξάνδρειαν PLille 3.80 (iii B.C.), etc.
      • 2 of things, κατερχομένης ὑπὸ πέτρης by the descending rock, Od. 9.484, 541; of a river, κατέρχεται ὁ Νεῖλος πληθύων comes down in flood, Hdt. 2.19; κατελθόντος αἰφνιδίου τοῦ ῥεύματος Th. 4.75.
      • 3 κ. εἰς τὸν ἀγῶνα, Lat. descendere in certamen, S.E. M. 7.324.
      • 4 c. acc., come to a place, ὑμέτερον δῶ Od. 24.115; ἀφθονία κατελήλυθε τὴν πόλιν Lyd. Mag. 3.76.
      • 5 of property, pass to, PRein. 42.28 (i/ii A.D.), POxy. 1704.5 (iii A.D.).
    • II come back, return, esp. come back from exile, Hdt. 4.4, al., A. Ag. 1647, Ch. 3, Eu. 462, S. OC 601, Ar. Ra. 1165, 1167, Pl. Ap. 21a, OGI 90.20 (Rosetta, ii B.C.), etc.; φυγὰς κατελθών S. Ant. 200; ὃς ἂν κατέλθῃ τήνδε γῆν E. IT 39: in pass. sense, ὑπʼ ὀλιγαρχίας κατελθεῖν to be brought back by . ., Th. 8.68; cf. κάτειμι II, καθέρπω II.

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