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καταμπέχω

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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.
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Transliteration A: katampéchō Transliteration B: katampechō Transliteration C: katampecho Beta Code: katampe/xw

English (LSJ)

and κατ-ίσχω,

   A encompass, εὔψυχον ἄνδρα κούφῃ καταμπίσχουσιν ἐν τύμβῳ Χθονί, i.e. bury him, E.Hel.853; μηκάδων μέλη, Χλόην καταμπέχοντα full of green herbs, i.e. either fed on grass or stuffed with herbs, Antiph.1; cover, τὰ κράνη -αμπέχοντες Plu.Crass. 11.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1364] (s. ἔχω u. ἀμπέχω), umthun, umgeben, bedecken; Antiphan. bei Ath. III, 112 d; τὰ κράνη Plut. Crass. 11.