κατωφερής
ῥεῖα δ' ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ' ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει → easily he humbles the proud and raises the obscure, and easily he straightens the crooked and blasts the proud (Hesiod, Works and Days 6-8)
English (LSJ)
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A = κάτω φερόμενος, hanging down, κεφαλή X.Cyn.5.30 (v.l. καταφερής); steep, κατάβασις Plb.3.54.5; κ. θέσις sloping posture, Sor.2.60; descending, χελώνη Orib.49.4.51; with a downward tendency, heavy, στοιχεῖα, opp. ἀνωφερής, Stoic.2.175, al., cf. Herm ap.Stob.1.49.68, Simp.in Ph.386.23; ὁρμή Eust.603.39. Adv. -ρῶς Vett. Val.153.4; gloss on κατωκάρα, Sch.Ar.Pax152. II metaph., prone to vice, lewd, v.l. for καταφερής in Apollod.Ath. ap. Ath.7.281f, cf. Vett. Val.18.3, EM 451.2; κ. εἰς τὰ ἀφροδίσια Hsch. s.v. Σαλαβακχώ.
