Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

κατακτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατακτός κατακτή κατακτόν

Structure: κατακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kata/gw

Sense

  1. to be sunk or let down

Examples

  • μόλυβδον ἐσ τουτὶ τὸ κοῖλον ἐγχέασ ἔπειτ’ ἄνωθεν ῥάβδον ἐνθεὶσ ὑπόμακρον, γενήσεταί σοι τῶν κατακτῶν κοττάβων. (Aristophanes, Peace, Episode 1:14)
  • ἐκάλουν δὲ καὶ κατακτούσ τινασ κοττάβουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 41)
  • τὸ δὲ καλούμενον κατακτὸν κοττάβιον τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν λυχνίον ἐστὶν ὑψηλόν, ἔχον τὸν μάνην καλούμενον, ἐφ’ ὃν τὴν καταβαλλομένην ἔδει πεσεῖν πλάστιγγα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 5 2:4)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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