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|Definition=Att. καταπλήττω, fut. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> -ξω <span class="bibl">D.21.194</span>:—[[strike down]], <b class="b3">τινὸς εἰς τὴν κατακλεῖδα</b> ([[ξίφος]]) <span class="title">PMag.Par.</span> 1.300: usually metaph., [[strike with amazement]], [[astound]], [[terrify]], κατέπλησσεν ἐπὶ τὸ φοβεῖσθαι <span class="bibl">Th.2.65</span>; ὁ φόβος κ. τὰς ψυχάς <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>3.1.25</span>; καταπλήξειν ᾤετο τὸν δῆμον D. l. c.; <b class="b3">κ. τοὺς ἀκροατάς</b>, of orators, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1408a25</span>; <b class="b3">-πλῆξαί τινα τῇ προδοσίῃ</b> [[tax]] him with his treachery, <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.128</span> (v.l. [[-πλέξαι]]); [[browbeat]], [[bully]], POxy.237 viii 10 (ii A. D.):—Med., -πλήξασθαι τοὺς ὑπεναντίους <span class="bibl">Plb.3.89.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">D.S. 11.77</span>, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Or.</span>6.191a</span>, etc.:—Pass., <b class="b2">to be panic-stricken, astounded</b>, most freq. in aor.2 and pf. (pres., <span class="bibl">Eup.159.10</span>), κατεπλήγη φίλον ἦτορ <span class="bibl">Il.3.31</span>; -πλαγῆναι τῷ πολέμῳ <span class="bibl">Th.1.81</span>; τῷ πλήθει <span class="bibl">Id.4.10</span>; μὴ -πέπληχθε ἄγαν <span class="bibl">Id.7.77</span>: c. acc., πάνυ τοῦτ' ἐπαινῶ καὶ -πλήττομαι Eup. l.c.; τὴν ἀπειρίαν τὴν αὑτοῦ -πεπλῆχθαι <span class="bibl">Isoc.<span class="title">Ep.</span>4.11</span>; <b class="b3">μηδὲν -πλαγέντες τὸν Φίλιππον</b> Decr. ap. <span class="bibl">D.18.185</span>; -πεπλῆχθαι τὸν βίον <span class="bibl">Id.37.43</span> codd.; -πεπληγμένοι τὸν στόλον <span class="bibl">Plb.1.20.6</span>; to [[be amazed at]], τὴν ἀπαθίαν τινῶν Phld.<span class="title">Sto.Herc.</span>339.7: later intr. in pf. <b class="b3">-πέπληγα</b>, plpf. -πεπλήγη <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">Mith.</span>19</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.10.22.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DMeretr.</span>13.2</span>: especially in part., -πεπληγότες τὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων τάχος <span class="bibl">D.H.6.25</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τὸ περιδεὲς καὶ -πεπληγός</b> [[abject terror]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Comp.Pel.Marc.</span>1</span>.</span>