A.“καθεζόμην” Od.9.417, A.Eu.6, Ar.Lys.1139: fut. “καθεδοῦμαι” Id.Ra.200, Av.727 (anap.), And.1.111, Pl.Tht.146a, D.5.15; later “καθεδήσομαι” D.L.2.72, “καθεσθήσομαι” LXX Le.12.5: aor. “καθεσθείς” AP9.644.5 (Agath.), Paus.9.3.4, Charito 3.2, but v. Luc.Sol.11 (καθίζομαι, Pass. of καθίζω, which supplies the trans. sense, is more common in pres. and impf., but we have “κατ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἕζεαι” Od.10.378, “καθεζόμεσθα” E.Heracl. 33, “καθέζονται” Lys.13.37, etc.):—sit down, take one's seat, “ἀγορήνδε καθεζώμεσθα κιόντες” Od.1.372; “εἰνὶ θύρῃσι καθέζετο” 9.417, cf. Il.24.126, etc.; κατ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἕζευ ἐπὶ θρόνου ib.522; “κατ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἕζετ᾽ ἐπὶ . . λίθοισιν” Od.3.406; καθεζομένη πρόχνυ (v. πρόχνυ); so “κ. ἐν . . εὐνατηρίοις” S. Tr.918; “ἐπὶ ζυγοῖς ἀρχῆς” E.Ph.75; “ἐς θρόνον” A.Pr.231; preside, Lys. l.c., Aeschin.3.73; “ἐνθαδί” Ar.Ra.200; οὐ λαχόντες προεδρεύειν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκ παρασκευῆς καθεζόμενοι taking their seats, Aeschin.3.3: Medic., Hp.Epid.7.3.
2. sit down in, occupy, a country, encamp, Th.2.18, 7.77; settle, “εἰς χώραν” OGI201.13 (Nubia, vi A.D.).
II. remain seated, in various senses:
1. sit still, with collat. notion of inaction, τίφθ᾽ οὕτως κατ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἕζεαι ἶσος ἀναύδῳ; Od.10.378, cf.6.295.
2. sit as suppliants, “ἱκέται καθεζόμεσθα βώμιοι” E.Heracl.l.c.; “πρὸς τὰ ἱερὰ ἱκετῶν καθεζομένων” Th.3.70, cf. Ar.Lys.1139, D.18.107.
3. sit for one's portrait, Porph.Plot.1.
4. of a teacher, “πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐκαθεζόμην διδάσκων” Ev.Matt.26.55.
