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|Definition=(v. infr.), impf. [[ἐκαθεζόμην]] in Prose, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.5.9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cyr.</span>5.3.25</span> (but freq. as aor. 2, <span class="bibl">And.1.44</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.110</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>272e</span>); in Poets, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> καθεζόμην <span class="bibl">Od.9.417</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>6</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1139</span>: fut. καθεδοῦμαι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ra.</span>200</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Av.</span>727</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">And.1.111</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>146a</span>, <span class="bibl">D.5.15</span>; later καθεδήσομαι <span class="bibl">D.L.2.72</span>, καθεσθήσομαι <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Le.</span>12.5</span>: aor. καθεσθείς <span class="title">AP</span>9.644.5 (Agath.), <span class="bibl">Paus.9.3.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Charito 3.2</span>, but v. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Sol.</span>11</span> ([[καθίζομαι]], Pass. of [[καθίζω]], which supplies the trans. sense, is more common in pres. and impf., but we have κατ' ἄρ' ἕζεαι <span class="bibl">Od.10.378</span>, καθεζόμεσθα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span> 33</span>, καθέζονται <span class="bibl">Lys.13.37</span>, etc.):—[[sit down]], [[take one's seat]], ἀγορήνδε καθεζώμεσθα κιόντες <span class="bibl">Od.1.372</span>; εἰνὶ θύρῃσι καθέζετο <span class="bibl">9.417</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Il.24.126</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">κατ' ἄρ' ἕζευ ἐπὶ θρόνου</b> ib.<span class="bibl">522</span>; κατ' ἄρ' ἕζετ' ἐπὶ… λίθοισιν <span class="bibl">Od.3.406</span>; <b class="b3">καθεζομένη πρόχνυ</b> (v. [[πρόχνυ]]); so κ. ἐν… εὐνατηρίοις <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Tr.</span>918</span>; ἐπὶ ζυγοῖς ἀρχῆς <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>75</span>; ἐς θρόνον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>231</span>; [[preside]], Lys. [[l.c.]], <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.73</span>; ἐνθαδί <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>200</span>; <b class="b3">οὐ λαχόντες προεδρεύειν, ἀλλ' ἐκ παρασκευῆς καθεζόμενοι</b> [[taking their seats]], <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.3</span>: Medic., <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span>7.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[sit down in]], [[occupy]], a country, [[encamp]], <span class="bibl">Th.2.18</span>, <span class="bibl">7.77</span>; [[settle]], εἰς χώραν <span class="title">OGI</span>201.13 (Nubia, vi A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[remain seated]], in various senses: </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[sit still]], with collat. notion of inaction, <b class="b3">τίφθ' οὕτως κατ' ἄρ' ἕζεαι ἶσος ἀναύδῳ</b>; <span class="bibl">Od.10.378</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">6.295</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[sit]] as suppliants, ἱκέται καθεζόμεσθα βώμιοι E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>l.c.; πρὸς τὰ ἱερὰ ἱκετῶν καθεζομένων <span class="bibl">Th.3.70</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1139</span>, <span class="bibl">D.18.107</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[sit]] for one's portrait, <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Plot.</span>1</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> of a teacher, πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐκαθεζόμην διδάσκων <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>26.55</span>.</span>