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καθά

καθά, according as, just as

κᾰθά [θᾰ], Adv. for καθʼ ἅ,
  • according as, just as, IG 1(2).90.43, 116.27, Men. Mon. 551, PCair.Zen. 188.8 (iii B.C.), Plb. 3.107.10, LXX Ge. 7.9, etc.; ὁ κ. παρατεταγμένος σφυγμός the (so to speak) ‘regular’ pulse (a military metaphor), Archig. ap. Gal. 8.626.
    • II also καθάπερ, Ion. κατάπερ, Philol. 14, Democr. 164, Hdt. 1.182, al., Ar. Eq. 8, Ec. 61, IG 1(2).39.42, al., D. 37.16, etc.: freq. in legal instruments, ἡ πρᾶξις ἔστω κ. ἐκ δίκης PEleph. 1.12 (iv B.C.), etc.: with a part., like ὡς, ἅτε, D.C. 37.54 (nisi leg. καίπερ):—strengthd., καθάπερ εἰ (Ion. κατάπερ εἰ, Hdt. 1.170), like as if, exactly as, Pl. Phlb. 22e, 59e, al.; καθάπερ ἄν (for ἐάν) D. 23.41; καθάπερ ἂν εἰ Pl. Lg. 684c, Arist. Ph. 240b10, Plb. 3.32.2, etc.:—μάχαιραν κ. like a knife, Porph. Chr. 31. Cf. καθό, καθώς.

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