Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κατάσχετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάσχετος κατάσχετον

Structure: κατασχετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for ka/toxos

Sense

  1. held back

Examples

  • ὃσ δ’ ἂν ὑπὸ κυνὸσ κατασχέτου λύσσῃ ἤτοι ἕλκοσ ἢ καὶ ἄλλωσ κίνδυνον εὑρ́ηται, τὸ ὕδωρ οἱ πίνοντι ἰάμα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. held back

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Derived

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

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