καταπτήσσω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=fut. <b class="b3">-πτήξω</b> (v. infr.): 3dual Ep. aor. 2 <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> καταπτήτην <span class="bibl">Il.8.136</span>: poet. aor. part. καταπτᾰκών <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>252</span> (cf. [[καταπλακών]]): pf. κατέπτηκα <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Jo.</span>2.24</span> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[-έπτηχε]]), Did. [[in D]].<span class="bibl">11.25</span>, <span class="bibl">Them.<span class="title">Or.</span>24.309b</span>, or κατέπτηχα <span class="bibl">D.4.8</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Per.</span>25</span>, Gal.5.510; Ep. part. [[καταπεπτηώς]] (v. infr.):—[[crouch]], [[cower]], esp. from fear, καταπτήτην ὑπ' ὄχεσφι <span class="bibl">Il.8.136</span>; καταπτήξας ὑπὸ θάμνῳ <span class="bibl">22.191</span>; κατὰ δ' ἔπτηξαν ποτὶ γαίῃ <span class="bibl">Od.8.190</span>; λιμῷ καταπεπτηυῖα <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>265</span>: also in Prose, <b class="b3">κατέπτηχε μέντοι ταῦτα πάντα νῦν</b> D.l.c., cf. <span class="bibl">D.H.7.50</span>; ταπεινοὶ -πτήξετε πρὸς τὸ μέλλον <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Aem.</span>27</span>; διὰ τὸ μέγεθος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Sull.</span>7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. acc., [[cower beneath]], ἐξουσίαν <span class="bibl">D.H.11.18</span>; τὸ θεοῦ κράτος <span class="bibl">Ph.1.677</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">322</span>, <span class="bibl">2.600</span>; of a breach in a wall, ἀπειλουμένην ὅσον οὔπω κατεπτηχέναι τὴν ἐπίκλυσιν <span class="bibl">Hld.9.5</span>.</span>