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κάτοχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάτοχος κάτοχον

Structure: κατοχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kate/xw

Sense

  1. holding down, holding fast, tenacious
  2. kept down, held fast, overpowered, overcome, subject

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν ᾧ διεξέρχεται πρῶτον μέν, ὡσ δικαίωσ ἐκτήσαντο Μεσσήνην Λακεδαιμόνιοι, παραδόντων τε αὐτὴν τῶν Κρεσφόντου παίδων ὅτε ἐξέπεσον ἐκ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ προστάξαντοσ δέχεσθαι καὶ τιμωρεῖν τοῖσ ἀδικουμένοισ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ἐπικυρώσαντοσ μὲν τὴν κτῆσιν τοῦ πολέμου, κάτοχον δὲ καὶ βέβαιον πεποιηκότοσ τοῦ χρόνου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 95)
  • αἰαῖ, ἰὼ Θρῄκησ λογχοφόρον ἔνο‐ πλον εὐίππον Ἄρει κάτοχον γένοσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric1)
  • καὶ εἴκει γὰρ ἤδη θυμὸσ οὐδ’ ἔτ’ ἀντέχει, θινῶδεσ ὡσ ἄγκιστρον ἀγκύρασ σάλῳ θινῶδεσ ἄγκιστρον οὐ φαύλωσ λέγων τὸ μὴ κάτοχον τοῦ λογισμοῦ μηδ’ ἀραρόσ, ἀλλὰ μανότητι τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ μαλακίᾳ προϊέμενον τὴν κρίσιν. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 27:1)
  • θινῶδεσ ἄγκιστρον οὐ φαύλωσ λέγων τὸ μὴ κάτοχον τοῦ λογισμοῦ μηδ’ ἀραρόσ, ἀλλὰ μανότητι τῆσ ψυχῆσ καὶ μαλακίᾳ προϊέμενον τὴν κρίσιν. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 9:6)
  • οὐ μὴ ’ξεγερεῖσ τὸν ὕπνῳ κάτοχον κἀκκινήσεισ κἀναστήσεισ φοιτάδα δεινὴν νόσον, ὦ τέκνον. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, anapests10)

Synonyms

  1. holding down

Related

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

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