καταιβάτης: Difference between revisions

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