καταιβάτης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ου, ὁ, a name of Zeus as <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[descending in thunder and lightning]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>42</span>, <span class="bibl">Clearch.9</span>, Lyc.1370, <span class="title">IG</span>2.1659b, 12(3).1360 (Thera), 1093 (Melos), <span class="title">BCH</span>50.245 (Thasos), Ἀρχ.Ἐφ.1924.146 (Thess.), <span class="bibl">Paus.5.14.10</span>, <span class="bibl">Corn.<span class="title">ND</span>9</span>: applied by Athenian flattery to Demetrius, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Demetr.</span>10</span>; also <b class="b3">κ. κεραυνός, σκηπτός</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>361</span>, Lyc.382. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> of Hermes, [[who led souls down]] to the nether world, Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>649</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> of [[Ἀχέρων]], [[that to which one descends]], [[downward]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1360</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> of a person, [[descending underground]], <span class="bibl">Dam. <span class="title">Isid.</span>131</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[καταιβάται]], οἱ, members of a thiasos of worshippers of Dionysus, <span class="title">Inscr.Magn.</span>215a36.--In these senses the form [[καταβάτης]] never occurs; cf. [[καταιβάσιος]], [[καταιβάτις]], etc.</span>