pentakosiva" dracma;" eijsfevrein to pay 500 drachmae on every 25 minae, Dem. , etc.
III. of direction towards an object, plei`n kata; prh`xin on a business, for or after, Od.; kata; lhi?hn in quest of booty, Hdt. ; kata; qevan h{kein to have come for the purpose of seeing, Thuc.
2.
of pursuit,
katÆ i[cno"
on
the track,
Soph.
IV.
according to,
kata; qumovn
Hom
.;
kaqÆ hJmevtron novon
after
our liking, Il.;
kata; moi`ran
as is
meet and right,
Hom.
; so,
katÆ ai\san, kata; kovsmon
Id.;
kaqÆ hJdonhvn
so as to
please,
Aesch.
;
kata; duvnamin
to the best of ones power, et.
2. in relation to, concerning, ta; katÆ ajnqrwvpou" = ta; ajnqrwpinav , Aesch. ; so, to; kaqÆ uJma`" as far as concerns you, Hdt. ; kata; tou`to according to this way, in this view; kata; taujtav in the same way, kaqÆ o{ti so far as, etc.
3. implying comparison, kata; lopo;n kromuvoio like the coat of a leek, Od.; kata; Miqradavthn answering to the description of him, Hdt. ; kata; pnigeva very like an oven, Ar. ; khdeu`sai kaqÆ eJautovn to marry in ones own rank of life, Aesch. ; katÆ a[nqrwpon like a man, as befits a man, Id.; katÆ a[ndra, mh; qeovn Id.:—after a Compar. , meivzwn h] katÆ ajnqrwvpou greater than befits a man, Hdt. ; meivzw h] kata; davkrua too great to weep for, Thuc.
V.
by the favour of
a god,
kata; daivmona
,
Lat.
non sine numine
,
Pind
.;
kata; qeovn
Hdt.
VI.
of loosely stated numbers,
nearly, about,
kata; eJxhkovsia e[tea
600 years
more or less,
Id.
VII.
of Time,
during, sometime
in a period,
kata; to;n povlemon
in the course of
the war, Id.;
kaqÆ hJmevran
by
day,
Aesch.
2. about, kata; to;n aujto;n crovnon Hdt .; kata; [Amasin basileuvonta about the time of Amasis,
VIII. used periphr. for Adverbs, as, kaqÆ hJsucivhn, kata; tavco" , etc. , for hJsuvcw", tacevw" , Id.; kata; mevro" partially; kata; fuvsin naturally; etc.
C. Position: when katav follows its case it is written with anastr. kavta. [D.] absol. as Adv. like kavtw , downwards, Hom.
E.
katav
in Compos.,
I.
downwards, down,
as in
katabaivnw.
[II.]
in answer to, in accordance with,
as in
katav/dw, kataquvmio"
.
III. against, in hostile sense, as katagignwvskw, katakrivnw. [IV.] often only to strengthen the notion of the simple word, as katakovptw, katafagei`n. [F.] katav as a Prep. was sometimes shortened, esp. in Ep. into kavg, kavk, kavm, kavn, kavp, kavr, kavt , before g, k, m, n, p (or f ) , rJ, t (or q ), respectively; see these forms in their own places. Mss. and the older Edd. join the Prep. with the following word, as kaggovnu, kaddev, kakkefalh`", kappedivon, kapfavlara, karrovon, kattavde, kattovn , etc. In compd. Verbs, katav sometimes changes into kab, kal, kar, kat , before b, l, r, q , respectively, as kavbbale, kavtqane, kavllipe, karrevzousa ; and before st, sc , the second syll. sometimes disappears, as in kastornu`sa, kavsceqe, kassuvw , as also in Doric forms kabaivnwn, kavpeton .
katav
katav , Ion. for kaqÆ a{ .
ka\/ta
ka\/ta , crasis for kai; ei\ta .
katavba
katavba , for katavbhqi , aor. 2 imp. of katabaivnw .
Id.