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κάθοδος , Ion. κάτοδος , ἡ,
A.descent, esp. of Demeter, Plu.2.378e; represented in mysteries, Herod.1.56; and so of a procession, “ἥρωος κ.” Call.Aet.1.1.26: generally, going down, “τῶν ἐδεστῶν ἐν τῇ κ. ἡ ἡδονή” Arist.PA690b30, cf. Luc.Nec.2; way down, Id.DMort.27.1; of planets, declination, Simp.in Cael.510.29.
2. ἡ κ. ἡ ἐπὶ θάλασσαν, = κατάβασις, Arr.An.1.2.4.
3. journey down the Nile, POxy. 1119.27 (iii A.D.), etc.
II. coming back, return, E.HF19, Th.3.114; esp. of an exile to his country, Hdt.1.60,61, al., Th.3.85,5.16, etc.; “κ. καὶ ἄδεια” Id.8.81.
III. cycle, recurrence, χιλίων ἐτῶν κ. a thousand years twice told, in pl., LXXEc.6.6, cf. Phot.; also τρεῖς καθόδους three times, LXX 3 Ki.9.25, cf. Aq.Ex.34.24, al.; “ἄχρι δύο καθόδων” twice over, Alex.Trall.1.17.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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