Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

καταστατικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταστατικός καταστατική καταστατικόν

Structure: καταστατικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kaqi/sthmi

Sense

  1. fitted for calming, a power to calm

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

  • λόγοι γὰρ ἦσαν αἱ ᾠδαὶ πρὸσ εὐπείθειαν καὶ ὁμόνοιαν ἀνακλητικοί, διὰ μελῶν ἅμα καὶ ῥυθμῶν πολὺ τὸ κόσμιον ἐχόντων καὶ καταστατικόν, ὧν ἀκροώμενοι κατεπραΰνοντο λεληθότωσ τὰ ἤθη καὶ συνῳκειοῦντο τῷ ζήλῳ τῶν καλῶν ἐκ τῆσ ἐπιχωριαζούσησ τότε πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ κακοθυμίασ, ὥστε τρόπον τινὰ τῷ Λυκούργῳ προοδοποιεῖν τὴν παίδευσιν αὐτῶν ἐκεῖνον. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 4 2:1)

Similar forms

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

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